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, 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: 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: 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 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. 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 16 And the LORD their God eth, even he, shall be for our 8 And I will encamp about 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. Hos. 1. 7. & 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. SK ye of the LORD brain a Jer. 14. 22. rain; so the LORD shall make 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 13 When I have bent Judah for 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. 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. a Is. 14. 25. b Ez. 30. 13. Mic. 4. 5. a ch. 10. 10. I Or, b Is. 32. 19. ZECHARIAH. The type of a foolish shepherd. feed the flock of wine: yea, their children shall | 7 And I will 10 I will bring them again 12 And I will strengthen them CHAPTER XI. 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, 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. 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. 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. 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 the inhabit 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 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. of Simeon, as LXX. 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. 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. Is. 48. 10. P 1 Pet. 1. 6, 7. 9 Ps. 50, 15. & r Ps. 144. 15. 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 God. CHAPTER XIV. 1 The destroyers of Jerusalem destroyed. 4 EHOLD, of abide. 12.39. BLORD cometh, and thy spoil and there shall be more Jer. 31. 40. shall be divided in the midst of 2 For I will gather all nations 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: |