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Zechariah
1 Behold, the day of the
LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided
in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all
nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the
city shall be taken, and the houses rifled,
and the women ravished; and half of the city
shall go forth into captivity, and the
residue of the people shall not be cut off
from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go
forth, and fight against those nations, as
when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall
stand in that day upon the mount of Olives,
which is before Jerusalem on the east, and
the mount of Olives shall cleave in the
midst thereof toward the east and toward the
west, and there shall be a very great
valley; and half of the mountain shall
remove toward the north, and half of it
toward the south.
5 And ye shall flee to
the valley of the mountains; for the valley
of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea,
ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before
the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of
Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and
all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to
pass in that day, that the light shall not
be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one
day which shall be known to the LORD, not
day, nor night: but it shall come to pass,
that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in
that day, that living waters shall go out
from Jerusalem; half of them toward the
former sea, and half of them toward the
hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it
be.
9 And the LORD shall be
king over all the earth: in that day shall
there be one LORD, and his name one.
10 All the land shall be
turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south
of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and
inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate
unto the place of the first gate, unto the
corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel
unto the king's winepresses.
11 And men shall dwell
in it, and there shall be no more utter
destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely
inhabited.
12 And this shall be the
plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the
people that have fought against Jerusalem;
Their flesh shall consume away while they
stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall
consume away in their holes, and their
tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to
pass in that day, that a great tumult from
the LORD shall be among them; and they shall
lay hold every one on the hand of his
neighbour, and his hand shall rise up
against the hand of his neighbour.
14 And Judah also shall
fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all
the heathen round about shall be gathered
together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in
great abundance.
15 And so shall be the
plague of the horse, of the mule, of the
camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts
that shall be in these tents, as this
plague.
16 And it shall come to
pass, that every one that is left of all the
nations which came against Jerusalem shall
even go up from year to year to worship the
King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the
feast of tabernacles.
17 And it shall be, that
whoso will not come up of all the families
of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the
King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them
shall be no rain.
18 And if the family of
Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no
rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith
the LORD will smite the heathen that come
not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
19 This shall be the
punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of
all nations that come not up to keep the
feast of tabernacles.
20 In that day shall
there be upon the bells of the horses,
HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the
LORD's house shall be like the bowls before
the altar.
21 Yea, every pot in
Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness
unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that
sacrifice shall come and take of them, and
seethe therein: and in that day there shall
be no more the Canaanite in the house of the
LORD of hosts. |