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5 And the streets of the city CHRIST shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof. 6 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be I marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.

1 Or, hard, or, difficult.

h Gen. 18. 14. Luke 1.37. & 18. 27. Rom. 4. 21.

& 43. 5, 6.

7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts;

i Is. 11. 11. 12. Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from † the west country;

Ez. 37. 21. Amos 9. 14,

15.

† Heb. the country of the going down of the sun: See Ps. 50. 1. & 113.3. Mal. 1. 11.

k Jer. 30. 22. & 31. 1, 33. ch. 13. 9. 1 Jer. 4.2. m Hag. 2.4. ver. 18.

8 And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteous

ness.

9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; m Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of "Ezra 5. 1,2. "the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

• Hag. 2. 18.

I Or, the hire of man became

10 For before these days Ithere was no Phire for man, nor any nothing, &c. hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

P Hag. 1.6, 9, 10. & 2. 16. 92 Chr. 15. 5.

TM Hos. 2. 21,

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11 But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.

12 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

13 And it shall come to pass,

that as ye were "a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but v let your hands be strong.

14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of 2 Chr. 36. 16. hosts, a and I repented not:

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Joy and enlargement promised. man the truth to his neighbour; Before texecute the judgment of truth CHRIST and peace in your gates:

518.

† Heb.

and the

17 And let none of you imagine judge truth, evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no falsegment of oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.

18 And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying, 19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, fand the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, hand the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah ijoy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.

20 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:

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God defendeth his church. 9 Zion is exhorted to rejoice for the coming of Christ, and his peaceable kingdom. 12 God's promises of victory and defence.

the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD. 2 And Hamath also shall bor-d der thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise.

HE a burden of the word of

3 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

4 Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite kher power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

5 Ashkelon shall see it, and

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Christ's coming foretold.

Before

about 487.

ZECHARIAH.

fear; Gaza also shall see it, and CHRIST be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

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q Is. 62. 11. ch. 2. 10. Matt. 21. 5. John 12.15.

God is to be sought unto.

Before CHRIST about 487.

vour, and subdue with sling
stones; and they shall drink,
and make a noise as through
wine; and they shall be filled Or, subdue
like bowls, and as the corners
of the altar.

16 And the LORD their God
shall save them in that day as
the flock of his people: for they
shall be as the stones of a crown,
lifted up as an ensign upon his
land.
17 For how great is his good-f
ness, and how great is his beau-
corn shall make the young
men cheerful, and new wine the
maids.

eth, even he, shall be for our
God, and he shall be as a gov-ty!
ernor in Judah, and Ekron as
a Jebusite.

8 And I will encamp about
mine house because of the army,
because of him that passeth by,
and because of him that return-
eth and no oppressor shall
pass through them any more:
for now Phave I seen with mine
eyes.

q

9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, "thy King Jer, 23. 5. & cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an

30.9.

Luke 19. 38.
John 1. 49.
Or, saving
himself.

Hos. 1. 7. &
2.18.
Mic. 5. 10.
Hag. 2. 22.

t Eph. 2. 14, 17.

u Ps. 72. 8.

Or, whose covenant is by blood Ex. 24. 8. Heb. 10. 29. & 13. 20. * Is. 42. 7. & 51. 14. & 61. 1.

y Is. 49. 9. z 1s. 61. 7.

a Ps. 18. 14. & 77. 17. & 144. 6.

b Is. 21. 1.

ass.

CHAPTER X.

1 God is to be sought unto, and not idols.
5 As he visited his flock for sin, so he
will save and restore them.

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SK ye of the LORD brain a Jer. 14. 22.
As in the time of the latter

rain; so the LORD shall make
Ibright clouds, and give them
showers of rain, to every one
grass in the field.

Deut.11.14.

Job 29. 23. Joel 2. 23.

or lightnings, Jer. 10. 13.

Hab. 2. 18. † Heb. teraphim, Judg. 17. 5. e Job 13. 4.

2 For the dtidols have spoken & Jer. 10. 8. vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they e comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, Or, 10 And I will cut off the char-fbecause there was no shepherd. iot from Ephraim, and the horse 3 Mine anger was kindled from Jerusalem, and the battle against the shepherds, and I bow shall be cut off: and he punished the goats: for the shall speak peace unto the LORD of hosts hhath visited his heathen: and his dominion shall flock the house of Judah, and be u from sea even to sea, and hath made them as his goodly i Cant. 1.9. from the river even to the ends horse in the battle. of the earth.

11 As for thee also, by the
blood of thy covenant I have
sent forth thy prisoners out
of the pit wherein is no water.
12 Turn you to the strong
hold, y ye prisoners of hope:
even to day do I declare that I
will render double unto thee;

13 When I have bent Judah for
me, filled the bow with Ephraim,
and raised up thy sons, O Zion,
against thy sons, O Greece, and
made thee as the sword of a
mighty man.

14 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go bwith whirlwinds of the south.

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6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and "I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and P will Pch. 13. 9. hear them.

7 And they of Ephraim shall be 15 The LORD of hosts shall de- like a mighty man, and their fend them; and they shall de-a heart shall rejoice as through ch. 9. 15.

9 Ps. 104. 15.

The destruction of Jerusalem.

Before CHRIST about 487.

r Is. 5. 26.

Is. 49. 19. Ez. 36. 37.

t Hos. 2. 23. "Deut. 30. 1.

Is. 11.11.16. Hos. 11. 11.

y Is. 49. 20.
z Is. 11. 15, 16.

a Is. 14. 25.

b Ez. 30. 13.

Mic. 4. 5.

a ch. 10. 10.

I Or,
gallants.

b Is. 32. 19.
1 Or,
the defenced
forest.

ZECHARIAH.

The type of a foolish shepherd.

feed the flock of
slaughter, even you, 50 poor
of the flock. And I took unto
me two staves; the one I called
Beauty, and the other I called
Bands; and I fed the flock.
8 Three shepherds also I cut off
hin one month; and my soul
re-loathed them, and their soul
also abhorred me.

wine: yea, their children shall | 7 And I will
see it, and be glad; their heart
shall rejoice in the LORD.
8 I will hiss for them, and
gather them; for I have redeem-
ed them and they shall in-
crease as they have increased.
9 And I will sow them among
the people: and they shall
member me in far countries;
and they shall live with their
children, and turn again.

10 I will bring them again
also out of the land of Egypt,
and gather them out of Assyria;
and I will bring them into the
land of Gilead and Lebanon; and
yplace shall not be found for them.
11 And he shall pass through
the sea with affliction, and shall
smite the waves in the sea, and
all the deeps of the river shall
dry up and athe pride of As-
syria shall be brought down,
and the sceptre of Egypt shalĺ
depart away.

12 And I will strengthen them
in the LORD; and they shall
walk up and down in his name,
saith the LORD.

CHAPTER XI.
1 The destruction of Jerusalem. 3 The elect
being cared for, the rest are rejected. 10
The stares of Beauty and Bands broken by
the rejection of Christ. 15 The type and
curse of a foolish shepherd.

OPE

PEN athy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.

3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled. 4 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; 5 Whose possessors slay them, d Jer. 2. 3. & and dhold themselves not guilty: and they that sell theme say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich and their own shepherds pity them not.

© ver. 7.

50.7.

• Deut. 29.19. Hos. 12. 8.

† Heb. make to be found.

6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall

9 Then said I, I will not feed you that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh t of another. 10 And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.

Before CHRIST about 487.

fver. 4. or verily

the poor. Zeph. 3. 12.

Matt. 11.5.

I Or,
Binders.

h Hos. 5. 7.

↑ Heb. was straitened

for them. Jer 15. 2. &

43. 11.

† Heb. of his fellow, or, neighbour.

the poor of the flock, &c. certainly knew.

11 And it was broken in that day and so the poor of the 10. flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD. 12 And I said unto them, † If ye k Zeph. 3. 12. think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the mpotter: a goodly price that I was prized at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

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15 ¶ And the LORD said unto me, n Take unto thee yet the in- "Ez.34. 2, 3, struments of a foolish shepherd. 16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, nei-1Or, hidden. ther shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor

feed that that standeth still: Or, bear. but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces. 17 Woe to the idol shepherd Jer. 23. 1. that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

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smite the land, and out of their the LORD for Israel, saith

hand I will not deliver them.

Ez. 34. 2. John 10. 12, 13.

The restoring of Judah.

Before

about 487.

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the LORD, a which stretcheth | him, as one that is in bitterness CHRIST forth the heavens, and layeth the for his firstborn. foundation of the earth, and b formeth the spirit of man within him.

a Is. 42.5. & 44. 24. & 45. 12, 18. & 48.

13.

b Num. 16. 22. Ecc. 12. 7. 1s. 57. 16. Heb. 12. 9.

23.

2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem ca cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they Is. 51. 17, 22, shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. 3¶And in that day will I make Jerusalem e a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

I Or, slumber, or, poison. 1 Or, and also

against Ju dah shall be

be which shall be in siege against Jerusalem. d ver. 4, 6, 8, 9, 11. & ch. 13 1. & 14. 4, 6, 8, 9, 13. * Matt. 21. 44. f Ps. 76, 6.

Ez. 38. 4.

1 Or, There
is strength
to me and to

the inhabit
ants, &c.
Joel 3. 16.

g Obad. 18.

b Joel 3. 10. 1 Or, abject. † Heb. fallen..

i Hag. 2. 22.

ver. 3.

k Jer. 31.9. & 50.4. Ez. 39. 29. Joel 2. 28.

4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness. 5 And the

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11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem," Acts 2. 37. as the mourning of Hadadrim-2 Kings 23. mon in the valley of Megiddon. 29. 12 P And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

Rev. 1. 7. † Heb.

t

families. families. 92 Sam. 5.14.

Luke 3. 31.

13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and 10r their wives apart;

14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

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of Simeon, as LXX.

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habitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.

8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.

9¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to i destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

10k And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: 1.John 19. 34, and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, mas one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for

37.

Rev. 1. 7. m Jer. 6. 26. Amos 8. 10.

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2¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of Ex. 23. 13. the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.

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Is. 48. 10.

P 1 Pet. 1. 6,

7.

9 Ps. 50, 15. &
91. 15.
ch. 10. 6.

r Ps. 144. 15.
Jer. 30. 22.
Ez. 11. 20.
Hos. 2. 23.
ch. 8. 8.

a Is. 13. 9. Joel 2. 31. Acts 2. 20.

b Joel 3.2.

Is. 13. 16.

d See Ez. 11. 23.

e Joel 3. 12, 14.

1 Or, my mountains. Or, when he shall touch the

valley of the

mountains

to the place he sepa rated. about 787. f Amos 1. 1. # Matt. 16. 27. & 24. 30, 31.

& 25. 31. Jude 14.

h Joel 3. 11. Ii. e. it shall not be clear in some

places, and darkin other

places of the world. † Heb.

precious.

† Heb. thickness.

Or, the day shall be one.

i Rev. 22. 5.

8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut Off and die; n but the third shall be left therein.

Before

Plague of Jerusalem's enemies. which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it CHRIST shall come to pass, that at levening time it shall be light.

8 And it shall be in that day, that living mwaters 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.

n

about 487.

k Matt. 24.36. I Is. 30. 26. & 60. 19, 20. Rev. 21. 23. m Ez. 47. 1. Joel 3. 18. Rev. 22. 1. | Or, eastern, Joel 2.20.

n Dan. 2. 44. Rev. 11. 15.

9 And the LORD shall be a King over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and Eph. 4. 5,6. his name one.

compassed.

9 And I will bring the third
part through the fire, and will
Prefine them as silver is refined,
and will try them as gold is
tried: they shall call on my
name, and I will hear them: I 10 All the land shall be turned Or,
will say, It is my people: and Pas a plain from Geba to Rim-PIs. 40. 4.
they shall say, The LORD is my mon south of Jerusalem: and it
shall be lifted up, and all inhab-ch. 12. 6.
ited in her place, from Benja-Or, shall
min's gate unto the place of the
first gate, unto the corner gate,
and from the tower of Hananeel Neh. 3. 1. &
unto the king's winepresses.
men dwell in it,

God.

CHAPTER XIV.

1 The destroyers of Jerusalem destroyed. 4
The coming of Christ, and the graces of
his kingdom. 12 The plague of Jerusalem's
enemies. 16 The remnant shall turn to the
Lord, 20 and their spoils shall be holy.

EHOLD, of

abide.

12.39.
Jer. 31. 38.

BLORD cometh, and thy spoil and there shall be more Jer. 31. 40.

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 dupon 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 fearthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: sand the LORD my God shall come, and hall the saints with thee.

6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be t clear, nor † dark:

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