rwbs - Zechariah:8-14

rwbs@Zechariah:8:1 @ Again the word of the LORD of hosts came, saying,

rwbs@Zechariah:8:2 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.

rwbs@Zechariah:8:3 @ Thus saith the LORD; I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.

rwbs@Zechariah:8:4 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. (note:)very…: Hebrews. multitude of days(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:8:5 @ And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

rwbs@Zechariah:8:6 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it is marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in my eyes? saith the LORD of hosts. (note:)marvellous: or, hard, or, difficult(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:8:7 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; (note:)the west…: Hebrews. the country of the going down of the sun(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:8:8 @ 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 righteousness.

rwbs@Zechariah:8:9 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, who in the day the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

rwbs@Zechariah:8:10 @ For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour. (note:)there was…: or, the hire of man became nothing(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:8:11 @ But now I not to the remnant of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.

rwbs@Zechariah:8:12 @ For the seed 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. (note:)prosperous: Hebrews. of peace(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:8:13 @ And it shall come to pass, 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, let your hands be strong.

rwbs@Zechariah:8:14 @ For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:

rwbs@Zechariah:8:15 @ So again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.

rwbs@Zechariah:8:16 @ These the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: (note:)execute…: Hebrews. judge truth, and the judgment of peace(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:8:17 @ And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these that I hate, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Zechariah:8:18 @ And the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

rwbs@Zechariah:8:19 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace. (note:)feasts: or, solemn, or, set times(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:8:20 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; yet, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:

rwbs@Zechariah:8:21 @ And the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also. (note:)speedily: or, continually: Hebrews. going(:note)to pray…: Heb. to intreat the face of

rwbs@Zechariah:8:22 @ And many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD. (note:)to pray…: Hebrews. to intreat the face of(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:8:23 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days, that ten men out of all languages of the nations, shall take hold, shall even take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard God with you.

rwbs@Zechariah:9:1 @ The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus the rest of it: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, toward the LORD.

rwbs@Zechariah:9:2 @ And Hamath also shall border by it; Tyre, and Zidon, though it be very wise.

rwbs@Zechariah:9:3 @ And Tyre built herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

rwbs@Zechariah:9:4 @ Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

rwbs@Zechariah:9:5 @ Ashkelon shall see, and fear; Gaza also, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

rwbs@Zechariah:9:6 @ And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

rwbs@Zechariah:9:7 @ And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite. (note:)blood: Hebrews. bloods(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:9:8 @ And I will encamp about my house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with my eyes.

rwbs@Zechariah:9:9 @ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh to thee: he just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon a donkey, and upon a colt the foal of a donkey. (note:)having…: or, saving himself(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:9:10 @ And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace to the heathen: and his dominion from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.

rwbs@Zechariah:9:11 @ As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit in which no water. (note:)by…: or, whose covenant is by blood(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:9:12 @ Return to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare I will render double to thee;

rwbs@Zechariah:9:13 @ 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.

rwbs@Zechariah:9:14 @ 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 with whirlwinds of the south.

rwbs@Zechariah:9:15 @ The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue the sling stones; and they shall drink, make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, as the corners of the altar. (note:)with…: or, the stones of the sling(:note)be…: or, fill both the bowls, etc

rwbs@Zechariah:9:16 @ And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.

rwbs@Zechariah:9:17 @ For how great his goodness, and how great his beauty! Grain shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids. (note:)cheerful: or, grow, or, speak(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:10:1 @ Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field. (note:)bright…: or, lightnings(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:10:2 @ For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because no shepherd. (note:)idols: Hebrews. teraphims(:note)were…: or, answered that, etc

rwbs@Zechariah:10:3 @ My anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his majestic horse in the battle. (note:)punished: Hebrews. visited upon(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:10:4 @ Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.

rwbs@Zechariah:10:5 @ And they shall be as mighty, who tread down in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded. (note:)the riders…: or, they shall make the riders on horses ashamed(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:10:6 @ 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 the LORD their God, and will hear them.

rwbs@Zechariah:10:7 @ And Ephraim shall be like a mighty, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.

rwbs@Zechariah:10:8 @ I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.

rwbs@Zechariah:10:9 @ And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.

rwbs@Zechariah:10:10 @ 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 shall not be found for them.

rwbs@Zechariah:10:11 @ 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 the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart.

rwbs@Zechariah:10:12 @ And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Zechariah:11:1 @ Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

rwbs@Zechariah:11:2 @ Wail, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are laid waste: wail, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down. (note:)mighty: or, gallants(:note)the forest…: or, the defenced forest

rwbs@Zechariah:11:3 @ a voice of the wailing of the shepherds; for their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is laid waste.

rwbs@Zechariah:11:4 @ Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;

rwbs@Zechariah:11:5 @ Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.

rwbs@Zechariah:11:6 @ 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 smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver. (note:)deliver: Hebrews. make to be found(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:11:7 @ And I will feed the flock of slaughter, you, O poor of the flock. And I took to me two staffs; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock. (note:)even…: or, verily the poor(:note)Bands: or, Binders

rwbs@Zechariah:11:8 @ Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me. (note:)lothed…: Hebrews. was straightened for them(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:11:9 @ Then said I, I will not feed you: that which dieth, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another. (note:)another: Hebrews. his fellow, or, neighbour(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:11:10 @ And I took my staff, Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.

rwbs@Zechariah:11:11 @ And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it the word of the LORD. (note:)so…: or, the poor of the flock, etc. certainly knew(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:11:12 @ And I said to them, If ye think good, give my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty of silver. (note:)If ye…: Hebrews. If it be good in your eyes(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:11:13 @ And the LORD said to me, Cast it to the potter: a magnificent price that I was valued at by them. And I took the thirty of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

rwbs@Zechariah:11:14 @ Then I cut asunder my other staff, Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. (note:)Bands: or, Binders(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:11:15 @ And the LORD said to me, Take to thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

rwbs@Zechariah:11:16 @ For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, shall not visit those that are cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces. (note:)cut off: or, hidden(:note)feed: or, bear

rwbs@Zechariah:11:17 @ Woe to the idle shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be wholly dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

rwbs@Zechariah:12:1 @ The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

rwbs@Zechariah:12:2 @ Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the surrounding people, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah against Jerusalem. (note:)trembling: or, slumber, or, poison(:note)when…: or, and also against Judah shall he be which shall be in siege against Jerusalem

rwbs@Zechariah:12:3 @ And in that day will I make Jerusalem 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 against it.

rwbs@Zechariah:12:4 @ In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open my eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.

rwbs@Zechariah:12:5 @ And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem my strength in the LORD of hosts their God. (note:)The inhabitants…: or, There is strength to me and to the inhabitants, etc(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:12:6 @ In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the surrounding people, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, in Jerusalem.

rwbs@Zechariah:12:7 @ 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 may not magnify against Judah.

rwbs@Zechariah:12:8 @ 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 as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. (note:)feeble: or, abject: Hebrews. fallen(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:12:9 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

rwbs@Zechariah:12:10 @ And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for only, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for firstborn.

rwbs@Zechariah:12:11 @ In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

rwbs@Zechariah:12:12 @ 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; (note:)every…: Hebrews. families, families(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:12:13 @ The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; (note:)of Shimei: or, of Simeon, as LXX(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:12:14 @ All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

rwbs@Zechariah:13:1 @ In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. (note:)uncleanness: Hebrews. separation for uncleanness(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:13:2 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of 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.

rwbs@Zechariah:13:3 @ And it shall come to pass, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say to 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.

rwbs@Zechariah:13:4 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive: (note:)a rough…: Hebrews. a garment of hair(:note)deceive: Heb. lie

rwbs@Zechariah:13:5 @ But he shall say, I no prophet, I a farmer; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

rwbs@Zechariah:13:6 @ And shall say to him, What these wounds in thy hands? Then he shall answer, with which I was wounded the house of my friends.

rwbs@Zechariah:13:7 @ Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man my companion, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

rwbs@Zechariah:13:8 @ And it shall come to pass, in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts in it shall be cut off die; but the third shall be left in it.

rwbs@Zechariah:13:9 @ And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine 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 will say, It my people: and they shall say, The LORD my God.

rwbs@Zechariah:14:1 @ Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

rwbs@Zechariah:14:2 @ 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 rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

rwbs@Zechariah:14:3 @ Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

rwbs@Zechariah:14:4 @ And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst of it toward the east and toward the west, a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

rwbs@Zechariah:14:5 @ And ye shall flee the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal: yea, ye shall flee, as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, all the saints with thee. (note:)the mountains: or, my mountains(:note)for the…: or, when he shall touch the valley of the mountains to the place he separated

rwbs@Zechariah:14:6 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, the light shall not be clear, dark: (note:)that the…: that is, it shall not be clear in some places, and dark in other places of the world(:note)clear: Hebrews. preciousdark: Heb. thickness

rwbs@Zechariah:14:7 @ But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, at evening it shall be light. (note:)it shall be…: or, the day shall be one(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:14:8 @ And it shall be in that day, 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. (note:)former: or, eastern(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:14:9 @ And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

rwbs@Zechariah:14:10 @ 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 to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and the tower of Hananeel to the king’s winepresses. (note:)turned: or, compassed(:note)inhabited: or, shall abide

rwbs@Zechariah:14:11 @ And shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. (note:)shall be: or, shall abide(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:14:12 @ And this shall be the plague with which 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.

rwbs@Zechariah:14:13 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, 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.

rwbs@Zechariah:14:14 @ And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen on every side shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. (note:)Judah…: or, thou also, O Judah shalt(:note)at: or, against

rwbs@Zechariah:14:15 @ And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.

rwbs@Zechariah:14:16 @ And it shall come to pass, 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.

rwbs@Zechariah:14:17 @ And it shall be, whoever will not come up of the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.

rwbs@Zechariah:14:18 @ And if the family of Egypt shall not go up, and shall not come, that no; there shall be the plague, with which the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. (note:)that have no: Hebrews. upon whom there is not(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:14:19 @ This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. (note:)punishment: or, sin(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:14:20 @ In that day there shall be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS TO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD’S house shall be like the bowls before the altar. (note:)bells: or, bridles(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:14:21 @ Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness to the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil in them: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

rwbs@Luke:11:51 @ From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.