Zechariah:9-14
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The burden of the word of 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 .
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And Hamath also shall border thereby ;
Tyrus ,
and Zidon ,
though it be very wise .
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And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold ,
and heaped up silver as the dust ,
and fine gold as the mire of the streets .
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Behold ,
the Lord will cast her out ,
and he will smite her power in the sea ;
and she shall be devoured with fire .
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Ashkelon shall see it ,
and fear ;
Gaza also shall see it ,
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 .
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And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod ,
and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines .
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And I will take away his blood out of his mouth ,
and his abominations from between his teeth :
but he that remaineth ,
even he ,
shall be for our God ,
and he shall be as a governor in Judah ,
and Ekron as a Jebusite .
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And I will encamp about mine 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 mine eyes .
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Rejoice greatly ,
O daughter of Zion ;
shout ,
O daughter of Jerusalem :
behold ,
thy King cometh unto thee :
he is just ,
and having salvation ;
lowly ,
and riding upon an ass ,
and upon a colt the foal of an ass .
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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 unto the heathen :
and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea ,
and from the river even to the ends of the earth .
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As for thee also ,
by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water .
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Turn you to the strong hold ,
ye prisoners of hope :
even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee ;
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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 .
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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 .
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The LORD of hosts shall defend them ;
and they shall devour ,
and subdue with sling stones ;
and they shall drink ,
and make a noise as through wine ;
and they shall be filled like bowls ,
and as the corners of the altar .
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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 .
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For how great is his goodness ,
and how great is his beauty !
corn shall make the young men cheerful ,
and new wine the maids .
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Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain ;
so the LORD shall make bright clouds ,
and give them showers of rain ,
to every one grass in the field .
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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 there was no shepherd .
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Mine 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 goodly horse in the battle .
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Out of him came forth the corner ,
out of him the nail ,
out of him the battle bow ,
out of him every oppressor together .
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And they shall be as mighty men ,
which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle :
and they shall fight ,
because the LORD is with them ,
and the riders on horses shall be confounded .
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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 will hear them .
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And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man ,
and their heart shall rejoice as through wine :
yea ,
their children shall see it ,
and be glad ;
their heart shall rejoice in the LORD .
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I will hiss for them ,
and gather them ;
for I have redeemed them :
and they shall increase as they have increased .
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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 .
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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 place shall not be found for them .
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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 away .
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And I will strengthen them in the LORD ;
and they shall walk up and down in his name ,
saith the LORD .
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Open thy doors ,
O Lebanon ,
that the fire may devour thy cedars .
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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 .
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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 .
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Thus saith the LORD my God ;
Feed the flock of the slaughter ;
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Whose possessors slay them ,
and hold themselves not guilty :
and they that sell them say ,
Blessed be the LORD ;
for I am rich :
and their own shepherds pity them not .
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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 them .
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And I will feed the flock of slaughter ,
even you ,
O 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 .
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Three shepherds also I cut off in one month ;
and my soul lothed them ,
and their soul also abhorred me .
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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 of another .
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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 .
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And it was broken in that day :
and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD .
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And I said unto them ,
If ye think good ,
give me my price ;
and if not ,
forbear .
So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver .
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And the LORD said unto me ,
Cast it unto the potter :
a goodly price that I was prised 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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Then I cut asunder mine other staff ,
even Bands ,
that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel .
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And the LORD said unto me ,
Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd .
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For ,
lo ,
I will raise up a shepherd in the land ,
which shall not visit those that be cut off ,
neither shall seek the young one ,
nor heal that that is broken ,
nor feed that that standeth still :
but he shall eat the flesh of the fat ,
and tear their claws in pieces .
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Woe to the idol shepherd 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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The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel ,
saith the LORD ,
which stretcheth forth the heavens ,
and layeth the foundation of the earth ,
and formeth the spirit of man within him .
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Behold ,
I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about ,
when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem .
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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 together against it .
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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 .
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And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart ,
The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God .
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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 people round about ,
on the right hand and on the left :
and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place ,
even in Jerusalem .
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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 .
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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 .
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And it shall come to pass in that day ,
that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem .
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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 his only son ,
and shall be in bitterness for him ,
as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn .
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In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem ,
as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon .
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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 ;
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The family of the house of Levi apart ,
and their wives apart ;
the family of Shimei apart ,
and their wives apart ;
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All the families that remain ,
every family apart ,
and their wives apart .
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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 .
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And it shall come to pass in that day ,
saith the LORD of hosts ,
that 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 .
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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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And it shall come to pass in that day ,
that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision ,
when he hath prophesied ;
neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive :
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But he shall say ,
I am no prophet ,
I am an husbandman ;
for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth .
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And one shall say unto him ,
What are these wounds in thine hands ?
Then he shall answer ,
Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends .
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Awake ,
O sword ,
against my shepherd ,
and against the man that is my fellow ,
saith the LORD of hosts :
smite the shepherd ,
and the sheep shall be scattered :
and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones .
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And it shall come to pass ,
that in all the land ,
saith the LORD ,
two parts therein shall be cut off and die ;
but the third shall be left therein .
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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 is my people :
and they shall say ,
The LORD is my God .
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Behold ,
the day of the LORD cometh ,
and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee .
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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 .
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Then shall the LORD go forth ,
and fight against those nations ,
as when he fought in the day of battle .
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And his feet shall stand in that day upon 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 .
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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 earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah :
and the LORD my God shall come ,
and all the saints with thee .
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And it shall come to pass in that day ,
that the light shall not be clear ,
nor dark :
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But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD ,
not day ,
nor night :
but it shall come to pass ,
that at evening time it shall be light .
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And it shall be in that day ,
that 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 .
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And the LORD shall be king over all the earth :
in that day shall there be one LORD ,
and his name one .
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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 unto the place of the first gate ,
unto the corner gate ,
and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king '
s winepresses .
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And men shall dwell in it ,
and there shall be no more utter destruction ;
but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited .
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And this shall be the plague wherewith 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 .
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And it shall come to pass in that day ,
that 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 .
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And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem ;
and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together ,
gold ,
and silver ,
and apparel ,
in great abundance .
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And so shall be the plague of the horse ,
of the mule ,
of the camel ,
and of the ass ,
and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents ,
as this plague .
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And it shall come to pass ,
that 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 .
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And it shall be ,
that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King ,
the LORD of hosts ,
even upon them shall be no rain .
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And if the family of Egypt go not up ,
and come not ,
that have no rain ;
there shall be the plague ,
wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles .
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This shall be the punishment of Egypt ,
and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles .
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In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses ,
HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD ;
and the pots in the LORD '
S house shall be like the bowls before the altar .
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Yea ,
every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts :
and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them ,
and seethe therein :
and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts .
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