1 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah the son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo, saying:
2 The Lord was very angry with your fathers.
3 So tell them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.
4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the first prophets cried, saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds; and they paid no attention, nor listened to me, says the Lord.
5 Your parents, where are they? And do the prophets live forever?
6 But did not my words and my ordinances, which I commanded my servants the prophets, reach your fathers? Therefore they returned and said: As the Lord of hosts thought to deal with us according to our ways, and according to our works, so he did with us.
7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,
8 I saw in the night, and behold, a man who was riding on a chestnut horse, which was among the myrtle trees that were in the depths; and behind him were chestnut, brown, and white horses.
9 Then I said, What are these, my lord? And the angel who spoke with me said to me: I will show you what these are.
10 And the man who was among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are those whom the LORD has sent to travel through the land.
11 And they spoke to the angel of the LORD who was among the myrtle trees, and said, We have traveled through the land, and behold, the whole land is at rest and still.
12 The angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem, and on the cities of Judah, with which you have been angry for seventy years?
13 And the Lord answered good words, comforting words, to the angel who spoke with me.
14 And the angel who spoke with me said to me, Cry out, saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion.
15 And I am very angry against the nations that are at ease; because when I was a little angry, they aggravated the evil.
16 Therefore thus says the LORD: I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy; My house will be built in it, says the Lord of hosts, and the plumb line will be stretched over Jerusalem.
17 Cry out still, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: My cities will yet overflow with the abundance of good, and the LORD will still comfort Zion, and will still choose Jerusalem.
18 Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, four horns.
19 And I said to the angel that spoke with me, What are these? And he said to me, These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
20 Then the Lord showed me four carpenters.
21 And I said, What are these coming to do? And he answered me, saying, Those are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one lifted up his head from it; but these have come to make them tremble, to pull down the horns of the nations that lifted up the horn on the land of Judah to scatter it.
1 Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man had a measuring line in his hand.
2 And I said to him: Where are you going? And he answered me: To measure Jerusalem, to see how wide it is, and how long it is.
3 And behold, the angel that was speaking with me came out, and another angel met him,
4 and said to him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem will be inhabited without walls, because of the multitude of men and cattle. in the middle of it.
5 I will be to her, says the Lord, a wall of fire around her, and I will be in her midst for glory.
6 Hey, hey, flee from the land of the north, says the Lord, for I have scattered you to the four winds of the heavens, says the Lord.
7 O Zion, who dwells with the daughter of Babylon, escape.
8 For thus says the Lord of hosts: After the glory he will send me to the nations that have spoiled you; because he who touches you, he touches the apple of his eye.
9 For behold, I will lift up my hand against them, and they will be a spoil to his servants, and you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me.
10 Sing and be glad, daughter of Zion; For, behold, I come, and I will dwell among you, saith the Lord.
11 And many nations will join themselves to the Lord in that day, and they will be my people, and I will dwell among you; and then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.
12 And the LORD will possess Judah his inheritance in the holy land, and he will even choose Jerusalem.
13 All flesh shall be silent before the Lord; for he has arisen from his holy abode.
1 He showed me Joshua the high priest, who stood before the angel of the Lord, and Satan stood at his right hand to accuse him.
2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; Jehovah who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you. Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
3 And Joshua was clothed in vile garments, and stood before the angel.
4 And the angel spoke, and commanded those who stood before him, saying, Take away those vile garments from him. And to him he said: See, I have taken away your sin from you, and made you dress in fine clothes.
5 Then he said, Put a clean miter on his head. And they put a clean miter on his head, and put his clothes on him. And the angel of the Lord stood.
6 And the angel of the LORD warned Joshua, saying,
7 Thus says the LORD of hosts: If you walk in my ways, and if you keep my ordinance, you also will govern my house, you will also keep my courts, and among these who are here you will I will give place
8 Listen now therefore, Joshua high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are symbolic men. Behold, I bring my servant the Branch.
9 For here is that stone that I placed before Joshua; On this single stone there are seven eyes; Behold, I will engrave the graven image of him, says the Lord of hosts, and I will take away sin from the land in one day.
10 In that day, says the Lord of hosts, each of you will invite his companion, under his vine and under his fig tree.
1 The angel who spoke with me returned and woke me up, like a man who is awakened from his sleep.
2 And he said to me: What do you see? And I answered, I looked, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with a basin on it, and its seven lamps on top of the lampstand, and seven tubes for the lamps that are on top of it;
3 And next to it two olive trees, one on the right of the reservoir, and the other on the left of it.
4 I continued and spoke, saying to that angel who spoke with me: What is this, my lord?
5 And the angel who spoke with me answered and said to me, Do you not know what this is? And I said: No, my lord.
6 Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
7 Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will be reduced to a plain; he will roll out the first stone with acclamations of: Grace, grace to her.
8 The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
9 The hands of Zerubbabel will lay the foundation of this house, and his hands will finish it; and you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.
10 For those who despised the day of small things will rejoice, and will see the plumb line in Zerubbabel’s hand. These seven are the eyes of Jehovah, which run through the whole earth.
11 I spoke further and said to him: What do these two olive trees mean to the right of the lampstand and to its left?
12 I spoke again and said to him: What do the two olive branches mean, which pour out oil like gold through two golden tubes?
13 And he answered me saying, Do you not know what this is? And I said: My Lord, no.
14 And he said, These are the two anointed ones that stand before the Lord of all the earth.
1 Again I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a scroll was flying.
2 And he said to me: What do you see? And I answered: I see a scroll flying, twenty cubits long, and ten cubits wide.
3 Then he said to me: This is the curse that goes out on the face of the whole earth; for everyone who steals (as he is on one side of the scroll) will be destroyed; and everyone who swears falsely (as he is on the other side of the scroll) will be destroyed.
4 I have brought her out, says the Lord of hosts, and she will come to the house of the thief, and to the house of him who swears falsely in my name; and he will remain in the midst of his house and consume it, with its wood and its stones.
5 And that angel who was speaking with me came out and said to me, Lift up your eyes now and see what this thing is that comes out.
6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that comes forth. He furthermore said: This is their iniquity in all the earth.
7 And behold, they lifted up the leaden cover, and a woman was sitting in the middle of that ephah.
8 And he said, This is Wickedness; and he cast it into the ephah, and cast the mass of lead into the mouth of the ephah.
9 Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, two women came out, and they had wind in their wings, and they had wings like a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.
10 I said to the angel who spoke with me: Where are you taking the ephah?
11 And he answered me, That a house may be built for him in the land of Shinar; and when it is ready they will place it on its base.
1 Again I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and those mountains were of bronze.
2 In the first chariot there were sorrel horses, in the second chariot black horses,
3 in the third chariot white horses, and in the fourth chariot gray gray horses.
4 Then I answered and said to the angel who spoke with me: My Lord, what is this?
5 And the angel answered me and said to me, These are the four winds of heaven, which come forth after appearing before the Lord of all the earth.
6 The chariot with the black horses left toward the northern land, and the whites went out after them, and the gray horses left toward the southern land.
7 And the sorrels went out and busied themselves to go and explore the land. And he said: Go, travel through the land. And they traveled the earth.
8 Then he called me and spoke to me, saying: See, those who went out to the northern land made my Spirit rest in the northern land.
9 The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
10 Take Heldai, Tobiah, and Jedaiah, who have returned from Babylon, from the captivity; and you will go on that day and enter the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah.
11 So you will take silver and gold, and make crowns, and put them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
12 And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold, the man whose name is the Branch, who shall sprout from his roots, and shall build the temple of the Jehovah.
13 He will build the temple of the Lord, and he will bring glory, and he will sit and rule on his throne, and there will be a priest by his side; and there will be a council of peace between them.
14 The crowns will serve Helem, Tobiah, Jedaiah, and Hen son of Zephaniah, as a memorial in the temple of the Lord.
15 And those who are far away will come and help build the temple of the Lord, and you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you. And this will happen if you obediently obey the voice of the Lord your God.
1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chishleu,
2 when the people of Bethel had sent to Zarezer, with Regemmelech and his men, to implore the favor of the Lord,
3 and to speak to the priests who were in the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying: Shall we weep in the fifth month? Will we abstain as we have done for some years?
4 So the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,
5 Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and wept in the fifth and in the seventh month these seventy years, have you fasted? for me?
6 And when you eat and drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves?
7 Are these not the words that Jehovah proclaimed through the first prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and quiet, and its cities around it and the Negev and Shephelah were also inhabited?
8 And the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,
9 Thus spake the LORD of hosts, saying, Judge according to the truth, and show kindness and piety, every man to his brother;
10 do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the foreigner, or the poor; nor shall any man think evil in his heart against his brother.
11 But they would not listen, but turned their backs, and stopped their ears so as not to hear;
12 and they made their hearts like diamonds, so as not to hear the law or the words that Jehovah of hosts sent by his Spirit through the first prophets; Therefore great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.
13 And it came to pass, that just as he cried, and they did not hear, they also cried, and I did not hear, says the LORD of hosts;
14 but I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they did not know, and the land was desolate after them, no one remaining or anyone coming; for they turned the desirable land into a desert.
1 The word of the Jehovah of hosts came to me, saying,
2 Thus says the Jehovah of hosts: I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great wrath.
3 Thus says the Jehovah: I have restored Zion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the Mount of Holiness.
4 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Old men and old women will yet dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in his hand for the multitude of days.
5 And the streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in them.
6 Thus says the Jehovah of hosts: If this will seem wonderful in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, will it also be wonderful in my eyes? says the Lord of hosts.
7 Thus says the Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I save my people from the land of the east, and from the land where the sun sets;
8 and I will bring them, and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God in truth and righteousness.
9 Thus says the Jehovah of hosts: Let your hands be strong, you who hear these words in these days from the mouths of the prophets, from the day the foundation was laid for the house of the Jehovah of hosts, to build the temple.
10 For before these days there was neither the wages of man nor the wages of beasts, nor was there peace for him who went out or for him who came in, because of the enemy; and I left all the men, each one against his companion.
11 But now I will not do it to the remnant of this people as in those days of old, says the Lord of hosts.
12 For there will be a seed of peace; The vine will yield its fruit, and the earth will yield its produce, and the heavens will yield its dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these.
13 And it will come to pass, as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not fear, but let your hands be strong.
14 For thus says the Jehovah of hosts: Just as I planned to do evil to you when your fathers provoked me to anger, says the LORD of hosts, and I did not repent,
15 so on the contrary I have planned to do good to Jerusalem and the house of Judah in these days; do not fear.
16 These are the things you are to do: Speak truth, each one to his neighbor; judge according to the truth and what is conducive to peace in your doors.
17 And let none of you think evil in your heart against your neighbor, nor love false oaths; for all these are things that I hate, says the Lord.
18 The word of the Jehovah of hosts came to me, saying,
19 Thus says the Jehovah of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, will become for the house of Judah in joy and gladness, and in festive solemnities. Love, then, truth and peace.
20 Thus says the Lord of hosts: People will yet come, and inhabitants of many cities;
21 And the inhabitants of one city will come to another, and say, Let us implore the favor of the Lord, and seek the Lord of hosts. I’ll go too.
22 And many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to implore the favor of the Lord.
23 Thus says the Jehovah of hosts: In those days it will come to pass that ten men from the nations of every language will take the cloak of a Jew, saying, We will go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.
1 The prophecy of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrac and against Damascus; for the eyes of men, and of all the tribes of Israel, must look to Jehovah.
2 Hamath will also be included in its territory; Tire and Sidon, although they are very wise.
3 Now that Tire has built itself a stronghold, and has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the mud of the streets,
4 behold, the Lord will make it poor, and will smite its strength in the sea, and it will be consumed by fire.
5 Ashkelon will see, and he will fear; Gaza too, and it will be greatly grieved; Likewise Ekron, for his hope will be confounded; and the king of Gaza will perish, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
6 A foreigner will live in Ashdod, and I will put an end to the pride of the Philistines.
7 I will remove the blood from his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth, and there will also be a remnant for our God, and they will be like captains in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusite.
8 Then I will camp around my house like a guard, so that no one comes or goes, and the oppressor will no longer pass over them; because now I will look with my eyes.
9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion; shout for joy, daughter of Jerusalem; Behold, your king will come to you, just and saving, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt the foal of a donkey.
10 And I will destroy the chariots of Ephraim, and the horses of Jerusalem, and the war bows will be broken; and he will speak peace to the nations, and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.
11 And you also by the blood of your covenant will be saved; I have taken your prisoners out of the cistern in which there is no water.
12 Return to the fortress, O prisoners of hope; Today I also announce to you that I will restore you double.
13 For I have bent Judah for myself as a bow, and made Ephraim his arrow, and I will stir up your children, O Zion, against your children, O Greece, and I will make you a mighty sword.
14 And the Lord will be seen upon them, and his dart will go out like lightning; and the Lord God will blow the trumpet, and will go among the whirlwinds of the south.
15 The Lord of hosts will protect them, and they will devour, and they will trample the stones of the sling, and they will drink, and they will make a noise as if they have drunk wine; and they will be filled like a bowl, or like the horns of the altar.
16 And on that day the Lord his God will save them as a flock of his people; for they will be exalted as stones in a diadem in his land.
17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Wheat will rejoice the young men, and wine the maidens.
1 Ask Jehovah for rain in the late season. The Lord will strike lightning, and will give you abundant rain, and green grass in the field to each one.
2 For the teraphim have given vain oracles, and the soothsayers have seen lies, they have spoken vain dreams, and their consolation is in vain; Therefore the people wander like sheep, and suffer because they have no shepherd.
3 My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; but the LORD of hosts will visit his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them his horse of honor in war.
4 From him will come the cornerstone, from him the peg, from him the war bow, from him also every compelling.
5 And they will be like mighty men who in battle trace the enemy in the mud of the streets; and they will fight, because the Lord will be with them; and those who ride on horses will be put to shame.
6 For I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will guard the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I will have mercy on them, and they will be as if I had not rejected them; for I am the Lord his God, and I will hear them.
7 And Ephraim will be as mighty, and his heart will rejoice as because of wine; His children will also see and rejoice; his heart will rejoice in the Lord.
8 I will call them with a whistle, and gather them, for I have redeemed them; and they will be multiplied as much as they were before.
9 Although I will scatter them among the peoples, even in distant countries they will remember me; and they will live with their children, and they will return.
10 For I will bring them out of the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, and it will not be enough for them.
11 And the tribulation will pass through the sea, and the waves will strike the sea, and all the depths of the river will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be overthrown, and the scepter of Egypt will be lost.
12 And I will strengthen them in the Lord, and they will walk in his name, says the Jehovah.
1 O Lebanon, open your doors, and let the fire consume your cedars.
2 Howl, O cypress, because the cedar has fallen, because the magnificent trees are felled. Howl, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest is cut down.
3 The voice of shepherds howling, for their splendor is desolate; roaring noise of lions’ cubs, for the glory of the Jordan is destroyed.
4 Thus says the Lord my God: Feed the slaughter sheep,
5 which their buyers kill, and are not held guilty; and he who sells them says, Blessed be the Lord, for I have become rich; Nor do his shepherds have mercy on them.
6 Therefore I will no longer have mercy on the inhabitants of the land, says the Lord; for behold, I will deliver the men each into the hand of his companion and into the hand of his king; and they will desolate the land, and I will not deliver them out of their hands.
7 So I fed the sheep of the slaughter, that is, the poor of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs: one I named Grace, and the other Bindings; and I fed the sheep.
8 And I destroyed three shepherds in one month; for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also hated me.
9 And I said, I will not feed you; whoever dies, let him die; and whoever is lost, let him be lost; and those that remain, let each one eat the flesh of her companion.
10 Then I took my staff Grace, and broke it, to break my covenant which I made with all the people.
11 And it was destroyed on that day, and so the poor of the flock who looked to me knew that it was the word of the Lord.
12 And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my wages; and if not, leave it. And they weighed for my hire thirty pieces of silver.
13 And the LORD said to me, Throw it into the treasury; beautiful price with which they have appreciated me! And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and put them into the treasury into the house of the Lord.
14 Then I broke the other staff, Bindings, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15 And the LORD said to me, Take still the implements of a foolish shepherd;
16 For behold, I raise up in the earth a shepherd who will not visit the lost, nor search for the little, nor heal the injured, nor carry the weary on his back, but will eat the flesh of the fat, and break her hooves.
17 Woe to the useless shepherd who abandons his livestock! Let him strike his arm with his sword, and strike his right eye; His arm will completely dry up, and his right eye will be completely darkened.
1 Prophecy of the word of the Lord concerning Israel. The LORD, who stretches out the heavens and founds the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him, has said:
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup that will shake all the peoples around against Judah, in the siege against Jerusalem. .
3 And in that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all peoples; All who take it will be torn to pieces, while all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.
4 On that day, says the Lord, I will strike every horse with panic, and the rider with madness; But I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and I will strike every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the captains of Judah will say in their hearts, The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength in the Lord of hosts, their God.
6 In that day I will make the captains of Judah like a brazier of fire among wood, and like a burning torch among sheaves; and they will consume on the right and on the left all the peoples around; and Jerusalem will be inhabited again in its place, in Jerusalem.
7 And the LORD will deliver the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the inhabitant of Jerusalem may not be magnified over Judah.
8 On that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; Whoever is weak among them will at that time be like David; and the house of David as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.
9 And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and prayer; and they will look at me, whom they pierced, and they will mourn as one mourns for an only begotten son, grieving for him as one grieving for the firstborn.
11 On that day there will be great weeping in Jerusalem, like the weeping of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo.
12 And the earth will mourn, every race apart; the descendants of the house of David by themselves, and his wives by themselves; the descendants of the house of Nathan by themselves, and their wives by themselves;
13 the descendants of the house of Levi by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the descendants of Shimei by themselves, and their wives by themselves;
14 all the other families, each one for himself, and his wives for themselves.
1 At that time there will be a spring opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for purification from sin and uncleanness.
2 And in that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will remove the names of the images from the earth, and they will be remembered no more; and I will also cut off the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness from the land.
3 And it shall come to pass, that when any man shall yet prophesy, his father and his mother, who begot him, shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live, because thou hast spoken a lie in the name of the LORD; and his father and his mother who begot him will pierce him when he prophecies.
4 And it will come to pass in that time, that all the prophets will be ashamed of the vision of him when they prophesy; nor will they ever again wear the downy cloak to lie.
5 And he will say, I am no prophet; I am a farmer of the land, for I have been in the field since my youth.
6 And they will ask him: What wounds are these in your hands? And he will answer: With them I was wounded in the house of my friends.
7 Arise, O sword, against the shepherd, and against the man who is my companion, says the Lord of hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
8 And it will come to pass in all the land, says the Lord, that two thirds of it will be cut off from it, and will be lost; but the third will remain in it.
9 And I will put the third part into the fire, and I will melt them as silver is melted, and I will test them as gold is tested. He will call on my name, and I will hear him, and I will say: My people; and he will say: The Lord is my God.
1 Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, and your spoils will be divided among you.
2 For I will gather all the nations to fight against Jerusalem; and the city will be taken, and the houses will be plundered, and the women raped; and half the city will go into captivity, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
3 Then the LORD will come out and fight with those nations, just as he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will split in the middle, towards the east and towards the west, making a very large valley; and half the mountain will be set aside toward the north, and the other half toward the south.
5 And you will flee to the valley of the mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azal; you will flee as you fled because of the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah; and the Lord my God will come, and with him all the saints.
6 And it will come to pass that in that day there will be neither clear light nor dark.
7 There will be a day, which is known to the Lord, which will be neither day nor night; but it will happen that when evening falls there will be light.
8 It will also come to pass on that day, that living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea, in summer and in winter.
9 And the Lord will be king over all the earth. In that day Jehovah will be one, and his name will be one.
10 The whole land will become like a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and it will be exalted, and inhabited in its place from the gate of Benjamin to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel to the king’s winepresses.
11 And they will dwell in it, and there will be no more curse, but Jerusalem will be inhabited safely.
12 And this will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will be corrupted while they are on their feet, and their eyes will be consumed in their sockets, and their tongue will melt in their mouth.
13 And it will come to pass in that day that there will be great panic among them sent by the Lord; and he shall bind each man by the hand of his companion, and shall lift up his hand against the hand of his companion.
14 And Judah will also fight in Jerusalem. And the riches of all the surrounding nations will be gathered: gold and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.
15 So also will be the plague on the horses, on the mules, on the camels, on the donkeys, and on all the beasts that are in those camps.
16 And all who remain of the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
17 And it will come to pass that those of the families of the land who do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, no rain will come upon them.
18 And if the family of Egypt does not go up and come, there will be no rain on them; The plague will come with which Jehovah will strike the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
19 This will be the penalty for the sin of Egypt, and for the sin of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
20 On that day it will be engraved on the horse bells: HOLINESS TO THE LORD; and the pots of the house of the Lord will be like the bowls of the altar.
21 And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be consecrated to the Lord of hosts; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and bake in them; and in that day there will be no more merchant in the house of the Lord of hosts.
