againf Judab. 13 Thou wenteft forth for the falvation of thy people, even tor falvation with thine anointed; thou woundedit the head out of the houfe of the wicked, by difcovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. 14 Thou didft ftrike through with his faves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor fecretly. 15 Thou didit walk through the fea with thine horses, through the heap of great wa ters. 16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: roiteneis entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might reit in the day of trouble when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops. 17 Although the fig tree thall not blof fom, neither ball fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive thall fail, and the helds thail yield no meat; the flock thall be cut off from the fold, and there fall be no herd in the ftalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my falvation. 19 The Lord GoD is my ftrength, and he will make my feet like hinds feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief finger on my stringed instruments. 1 ZEPHANIA H. CHAP. I. God's fevere judgments against Judah for divers fins. THE word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the fon of Cufhi, the fon of Gedaliah, the fon of Amariah, the fon of Hizkiah, in the days of Jofiah the fon of Amon, king of Judah. 2 I will utterly confume all things from off the land, faith the LORD. 3 I will confume man and beat; I will confume the towls of the heaven, and the fishes of the fea, and the tumbling blocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, faith the LORD. 4 I will alfo stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon the inhabitants of Jerufalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests; 5 And them that worthip the hott of heaven upon the houfetops; and them that worthip and that fwear by the LORD, and that fwear by Malcham; 6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and thofe that have not fought the LORD, nor enquired for him. 7 Hold thy peace at the prefence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a facrifice, he hath bid his guefts. 8 And it thall come to pafs in the day of the LORD's facrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all fuch as are clothed with ftrange apparel. 9 In the fame day alfo will I punish all thofe that leap on the thresholt, which fill their maiter's houses with violence and deceit. 10 And it thall come to país in that day, faith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fifh gate, and an howling from the fecond, and a great crashing from the hills. II Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktech, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear filver are cut off. 12 And it thall come to pafs at that time, that I will fearch Jerufalem with candles, and punish the men that are fettled on their lees: that fay in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil. 13 Therefore their goods fhall become a booty, and their houfes a defolation: they shall alfo build houfes, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof. 14 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hafteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and diftrefs, a day of waftenefs and defolation, a day of darknefs and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, 16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers. 17 And I will bring diftrefs upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have finned against the LORD: and their blood fhall be poured out as dut, and their fleth as the dung. 18 Neither their filver nor their gold fhall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath; but the whole land shall be de voured by the fire of his jealousy: for he thall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land. CHAP. An exhortation to repentance. 4 The jude Ifrael reproved for her fins. of Ifrael, 14 and to rejoice for their falva. tion by God. ment of the Philiflines, 8 of Moab, and Am- WOE to her that is filthy and polluted, mon, 12 of Ethiopia, 13 and Affyria. Gtogether, O nation not defired, ATHER yourfelves together, yea, gather a Before the decree bring forth, before the day país as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD's anger come upon you. 3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; feek righteoufnefs, feek meeknefs: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger. 4 For Gaza thall be forfaken, and Ahkelon a defolation: they fhall drive out Athdod at the noon day, and Ekron fhall be rooted up. 5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the fea coafts, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is againft you; O Caaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there fhall be no inhabitant. 6 And the fea coaft fhall be dwellings and cottages for thepherds, and folds for flocks. 7 And the coaft fhall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they thall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon thall they lie down in the evening : for the LORD their God fhall visit them and turn away their captivity. 8 have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themjelves against their border. 9 Therefore as I live, faith the LORD of bofts, the God of Ifrael, Surely Moab fhall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Go-morrah, even the breeding of nettles and faltpits, and a perpetual defolation: the refidue of my people thall fpoil them, and the remnant of my people thall poffefs them. to This thall they have for their pride, becaufe they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hofts. It The LORD will be terrible unto them; for he will famifh all the gods of the earth; and men fhall worship him, every one from his place, even all the ifles of the heathen. 12 Ye Ethiopians alfo, ye shall be flain by my fword. 13 And he will firetch out his hand againft the north, and destroy Affyria; and will make Nineveh a defolation, and dry like a wilderness. 14 And flocks thall lie down in the midft of her, all the beats of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern fhall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice fhall ting in the windows; defolation ball be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work. 15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that faid in her heart. I am, and there is none befide me: how is the become a defolation, a place for beafts to lie down in! every one that paffeth by her fhall hifs, and wag his hand. CHA P. III. A fearp reproof of Jerusalem for divers fins. 8 An exhortation to wait for the refloration to the oppreffing city! 2 She obeyed not the voice; the received not correction; the trufted not in the LORD; the drew not near to her God. 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. 4 Her prophets are light and treacherous perfons: her priests have polluted the fanctu ary, they have done violence to the law. 5 The juft LORD is in the midit thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjuft knoweth no thame. 61 have cut off the nations: their towers are defolate; I made their streets waite, that none pafeth by: their cities are defroyed, fo that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant. 7 I faid, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; fo their dwelling should not be cut off, howfoever I punished them: but they rofe early, and corrupted all their doings. 8Therefore wait ye upon me, faith the LORD, until the day that I rife up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may affemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth thall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. 9 For then will I turn to the people a pare language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to ferve him with one confent. 10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my fuppliants, even the daughter of my difperf ed, thall bring mine offering. 11 f that day thalt thou not be afhamed for all thy doings, wherein thou haft tranfgreffed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain. 12 I will alfo leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they fhall truft in the name of the LORD. 13 The remnant of Ifrael fhall not do iniquity, nor fpeak lies; neither fhall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none fhall make them afraid. 14 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Ifrael; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerufalem. 15 The LORD hath taken away thy judg ments, he hath caft out thine enemy: the king of Ifracl, even the LORD, is in the midft of thee: thou shalt not fee evil any more. 16 In that day it shall be faid to Jerufalem, Fear thou not; and to Zion, Let not thine hands be flack. The LORD thy God in the midft of thee is mighty; he will fave, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rett in his love, he will joy over thee with finging. 181 vill gather them that are forrowful for the folemn affembly, who are of thee, to whom the repr ach of it was a bur ien. 19 Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee; and I will fave her that halteth, and IN N the fecond year of Darius the king, in the fixth month, in the first day of the month, CHAP. 11. He encourageth the people to work, bo promife of greater glory to the fecond tem ple than was in the fir. 10 the fbeweth that their fins hindered the work. 20 God's promife to Zerubbabel. N feventh month, in the one and twen came the word of the LORD by Haggai theicth day of the month, came the word of prophet unto Zerubbabel the fon of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the fon of Jofedech, the high priest, faying, 2 Thus fpeaketh the LORD of hosts, fay. ing, This people fay, The time is not come, the time that the LORD's houfe fhould be built. 3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, faying, 4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this houfe lie waste? 5 Now therefore thus faith the LORD of hofts; Confider your ways. 6 Ye have fown much, and bring in little; ye cat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wares, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. 7 Thus faith the LORD of hofts; Confider your ways. 8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the houfe; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, faith the LORD. 9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? faith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine houfe that is wafte, and ye run every man unto his own houfe. To Therefore the heaven over you is ftayed/ from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. 11 And I cailed for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands. 12 Then Zerubbabel the fon of Shealtiel, and Joshua the fon of Jofe lech, the high prieft, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the IORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet as the LORD their God had fent him, and the people did fear before the LORD. 13 Then fpake Haggai the LORD's meffenger in the LORD's meffage unto the people, fay. ing, I am with you, faith the LORD. 14 And the LORD ftirred up the fpirit of Zerubbabe! the fon of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the fpirit of Joshua the fon of Jofedech, the high priest, and the fpirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the houfe of the LORD of hofts, their God, 15 In the four and twentieth day of the fixth month, in the fecond year of Darius the king. the LORD by the prophet Ha, gai, faying, 2 speak now to Zerubbabel the fon of Sheal. tiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the fon of Jofedech, the high priest, and to the refidue of the people, faying, 3 Who is left among you that faw this houfe in her firft glory? and how do ye fee it now? Is it not in your eyes in comparifon of it as nothing? 4 Yet now be frong, O Zerubbabel, faith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, fon of Jofedech, the high priest; and be ftrong, all ye people of the land, faith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, faith the LORD of hofts: 5. According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, fo my Spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. 6 For thus faith the LORD of hosts, Yet once, it is a little while, and I will thake the heavens, and the earth, and the fea, and the dry land, And I will shake all nations, and the defire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this houfe with glory, faith the LORD of hotts. 8 The filver is mine, and the gold is mine, faith the LORD of hosts. 9 The glory of this latter house thall be greater than of the former, faith the LORD of hofts: and in this place will I give peace, faith the LORD of hosts." 10 In the four and twentieth day of the ainth month, in the fecond year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, faying, 11 Thus faith the LORD of hosts; Afk now the priests concerning the law, faying, 12 If one bear holy fleth in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests anfwered and faid, No. 13 Then faid Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of thefe, fhall it be unclean? And the pricits anfwered and said, It fhall be unclean. 14 Then anfwered Haggai, and faid, so is this people, and fo is this nation before me, faith the LORD; and fo is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean. 15 And now, I pray you, confider from this day and upward, from before a ftone was laid upon a ftone in the temple of the LORD: 16 Since thofe days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were out Zechariah exhorteth to repentance. came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, faying, Chap. I, il. but ten: when one came to the prefs-fat for to draw out fifty veffels out of the prefs, there were but twenty. 17 Ifmote you with blafting, and with mildew, and, with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye' turned not to me, faith the LORD. 18 Confider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, confider it. 19 Is the feed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you. 20 And again the word of the LORD 21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Ju dah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth; 22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the ftrength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and i will overthrow the hariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders fhall come down, every one by the fword of his brother. 23 In that day, faith the LORD of hofts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my fervant, the fon of shealtiel, faith the LORD, and will make thee as a fignet: for I have chofen thee, faith the LORD of hofts. I ZECHARIAH. 1 Zechariah exhorteth to repentance. 7 The N the eighth morth, in the fecond year of 2 The LORD hath been fore difpleased with your fathers. 3 Therefore fay thou unto them, Thus faith the LORD of hofts; Turn ye unto me, faith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, faith the LORD of hosts. 4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, faying, Thus faith the LORD of hotts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, faith the LORD. 5 Your fathers, where are they and the prophets, do they live for ever? 6 But my words and my ftatutes, which I commanded my fervants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and faid, Like as the LORD of hots thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, fo hath he dealt with us. 7 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the fecond year of Darius, came the word of the 1ORD unto Zechariah, the fon of Barachiah, the fon of Iddo the prophet, faying, 8 i faw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red hoffe, and he stood among the myrtle trees, that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horfes, fpeckled, and white. 9 Then faid 1, Oh my lord, what are these! And the angel that talked with me faid unto me, I will thew thee what these be. 10 And the man that food among the myr. tle trees answered and faid, Thefe are they whom the LORD hath fent to walk to and trothrough the earth. 11 And they answered the angel of the LORD that food among the myrtle trees, and faid, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and behold, all the earth atteth kill, and is atreft. 12Then the angel of the LORD anfwered and faid, O LORD of hofts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerufalem and on the cities of Judah, again which thou haft had indignation thefe threescore and ten years? 13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words. 14 so the angel that communed with me faid unto me, Cry thou, faying, Thus faith the LORD of hoits; I am jealous for Jerufalem and for Zion with a great jealoufy. heathen that are at eafe: for I was but a 15 And I am very fore difpleafed with the little displeased, and they helped forward the amiction. 16 Therefore thus faith the LORD; I am returned to Jerufalem with mercies: my houfe fhall be built in it, faith the LORD of hofts, and a line thall be ftretched forth upon Jerufalem. 17 Cry yet, faying, Thus faith the LORD of horts; My cities through profperity thall yet be fpread abroad; and the LORD thall yet comfort Zion, and fhall yet choose Je rufalem. 18 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and faw, and behold four horns. 19 And I faid unto the angel that talked with me, What be thefe? And he antwered me, Thefe are the horns which have fcattered Judah, Ifrael, and Jerufalem. 20 And the LORD fhewed me four car penters. 21 Then faid 1, What come thefe to do A And he fpake, faying, Thefe are the horns which have feattere. Judah, fo that no man did lift up his head but thefe are come to fray them, to caft out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it. CHAP. II. 1 The vifion of an angel fent to measure Ferufalem, and its fourishing fate under God's protection foretold. 6 The people warned to quit Babylon before its fall. io The promise of God's prefence. Lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 Thea faid I, Whither goest thou? And he faid unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what the type of Foua. ZECHARIAH. what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. 3 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him, 4 And faid unto him, Run, fpeak to this young man, faying, Jerufalem fhall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein: 5 For I, faith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midft of her. 6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, faith the LORD: for I have Spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, faith the LORD. 7 Deliver thyfelf, O Zion, that dwelleft with the daughter of Babylon. 8 For thus faith the LORD of hosts; After The golden candleflick. 8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, hou, and thy fellows that fit before thee; for they are men wondered at: for, be hold I will bring forth my fervant the BRANCH. 9 For behold the ftone that I have laid before Jofhua; upon one ftore ball be feven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, faith the LORD of hofts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. 10 In that day, faith the LoxD of hosts, fhall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree. CHA P. IV. 1 By the golden candlestick is forebewn the good fuccefs of Zerubbabel's foundation. 11 By the two olive trees, the two anointed ones. the glory hath he sent me unto the nations AND the angel that talked with me came which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. 9 For, behold, I will thake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a fpoil to their fer. vants: and ye thall know that the LORD of hofts hath fent me. To Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midft of thee, faith the LORD. 11 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and thall be my people: and I will dwell in the midft of thee, and thou fhalt know that the LORD of hofts hath fent me unto thee. 12 And the LORD fhall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and thall choofe Jerufalem again. 13 Be filent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raifed up out of his holy habitation. CHA P. III. 2 And the LORD faid unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chofen Jerufalem rebuke thee is not this a brand plucked out of the fire! 3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and itood before the angel. 4 And he answered and fpake unto thofe that flood before him, faying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he faid, Behold, I have caufed thine iniquity to pafs from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. 5 And I faid, Let them fet a fair mitre upon his head. so they fet a fair mitre upon his heai, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD Rood by. 6 And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, faying, 7 Thus faith the LORD of hosts; if thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt alfo judge my houfe, and thalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk ainong these that and by. again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his fleep, 2 And faid unto me, What feeft thou? And I faid, I have looked, and behold, a candle. flick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his feven lamps thereon, and feven pipes to the feven lamps which were upon the top thereof; 3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left fide thereof. 4 So I answered and fpake to the angel that talked with me, faying, What are these, my lord! Then the angel that talked with me anfwered and faid unto me, Knowest thou not what thefe be? And I faid, No, my lord. 6 Then he answered and fpake unto me, faying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, faying, Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, faith the LORD of hots. 7 Who art thou, O great mountain? be. fore Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he thall bring forth the headstone thereof with fhoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it. 8 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands thall alfo finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hotts hath fent me unso you. 10 For who hath defpifed the day of fmall things? for they shall rejoice, and thall fee the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with thofe feven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth. 11 Then answered I, and faid unto him, What are thefe two olive trees upon the right fide of the candlestick and upon the left fide thereof? 12 And I answered again, and faid unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themfelves! 13 And he answered me and faid, Know. eft thou not what these be And I faid, No, my lord. 14 Then faid he, Thefe are the two anointed ones, that stand by the LORD of the whole earth. 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