38:001:001 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the
word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo
the prophet, saying,
38:001:002 The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.
38:001:003 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you,
saith the LORD of hosts.
38:001:004 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets
have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your
evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor
hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
38:001:005 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live
for ever?
38:001:006 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants
the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned
and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to
our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
38:001:007 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which
is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the
LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet,
saying,
38:001:008 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse,
and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind
him were there red horses, speckled, and white.
38:001:009 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that
talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.
38:001:010 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and
said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through
the earth.
38:001:011 And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the
myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth,
and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
38:001:012 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of
hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities
of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and
ten years?
38:001:013 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with
good words and comfortable words.
38:001:014 So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou,
saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and
for Zion with a great jealousy.
38:001:015 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at
ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the
affliction.
38:001:016 Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem
with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts,
and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
38:001:017 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities
through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet
comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
38:001:018 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
38:001:019 And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be
these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered
Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
38:001:020 And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.
38:001:021 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying,
These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift
up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of
the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to
scatter it.
38:002:001 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man
with a measuring line in his hand.
38:002:002 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To
measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the
length thereof.
38:002:003 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and
another angel went out to meet him,
38:002:004 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying,
Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude
of men and cattle therein:
38:002:005 For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round
about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
38:002:006 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north,
saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the
heaven, saith the LORD.
38:002:007 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of
Babylon.
38:002:008 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he
sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you
toucheth the apple of his eye.
38:002:009 For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they
shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of
hosts hath sent me.
38:002:010 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I
will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
38:002:011 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day,
and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou
shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
38:002:012 And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy
land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
38:002:013 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up
out of his holy habitation.
38:003:001 And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the
angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
38:003:002 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan;
even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a
brand plucked out of the fire?
38:003:003 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood
before the angel.
38:003:004 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him,
saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said,
Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will
clothe thee with change of raiment.
38:003:005 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they
set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the
angel of the LORD stood by.
38:003:006 And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,
38:003:007 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways,
and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house,
and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk
among these that stand by.
38:003:008 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows
that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will
bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
38:003:009 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon
one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving
thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of
that land in one day.
38:003:010 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every
man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.
38:004:001 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me,
as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.
38:004:002 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have
looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top
of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps,
which are upon the top thereof:
38:004:003 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the
bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
38:004:004 So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me,
saying, What are these, my lord?
38:004:005 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto
me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
38:004:006 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word
of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by
my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
38:004:007 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt
become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with
shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
38:004:008 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
38:004:009 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this
house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the
LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.
38:004:010 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they
shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with
those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro
through the whole earth.
38:004:011 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive
trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side
thereof?
38:004:012 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two
olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil
out of themselves?
38:004:013 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be?
And I said, No, my lord.
38:004:014 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by
the LORD of the whole earth.
38:005:001 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and
behold a flying roll.
38:005:002 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see
a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth
thereof ten cubits.
38:005:003 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth
over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be
cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth
shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
38:005:004 I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall
enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that
sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his
house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones
thereof.
38:005:005 Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto
me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.
38:005:006 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that
goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all
the earth.
38:005:007 And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this
is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
38:005:008 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the
midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth
thereof.
38:005:009 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there
came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings
like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the
earth and the heaven.
38:005:010 Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do
these bear the ephah?
38:005:011 And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of
Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.
38:006:001 And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and,
behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and
the mountains were mountains of brass.
38:006:002 In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second
chariot black horses;
38:006:003 And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth
chariot grisled and bay horses.
38:006:004 Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me,
What are these, my lord?
38:006:005 And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four
spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the LORD of
all the earth.
38:006:006 The black horses which are therein go forth into the north
country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth
toward the south country.
38:006:007 And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might
walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to
and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.
38:006:008 Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold,
these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the
north country.
38:006:009 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
38:006:010 Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah,
and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same
day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;
38:006:011 Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them
upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;
38:006:012 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts,
saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up
out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
38:006:013 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall
bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be
a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between
them both.
38:006:014 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to
Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple
of the LORD.
38:006:015 And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple
of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto
you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice
of the LORD your God.
38:007:001 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that
the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth
month, even in Chisleu;
38:007:002 When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and
Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,
38:007:003 And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the
LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth
month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
38:007:004 Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,
38:007:005 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests,
saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even
those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
38:007:006 And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat
for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
38:007:007 Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by
the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity,
and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south
and the plain?
38:007:008 And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying,
38:007:009 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true
judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
38:007:010 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger,
nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in
your heart.
38:007:011 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder,
and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
38:007:012 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they
should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in
his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from
the LORD of hosts.
38:007:013 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they
would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of
hosts:
38:007:014 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations
whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man
passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
38:008:001 Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,
38:008:002 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with
great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.
38:008:003 Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto 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.
38:008:004 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.
38:008:005 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls
playing in the streets thereof.
38:008:006 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be 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.
38:008:007 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people
from the east country, and from the west country;
38:008:008 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.
38:008:009 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, which
were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts
was laid, that the temple might be built.
38:008:010 For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any
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.
38:008:011 But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in
the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.
38:008:012 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.
38:008:013 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 let your hands be strong.
38:008:014 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:
38:008:015 So again have I thought in these days to do well unto
Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.
38:008:016 These are 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:
38:008:017 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his
neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I
hate, saith the LORD.
38:008:018 And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying,
38:008:019 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month,
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.
38:008:020 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass,
that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
38:008:021 And the inhabitants of one city 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.
38:008:022 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the
LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.
38:008:023 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to
pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations,
even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will
go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
38:009:001 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.
38:009:002 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon,
though it be very wise.
38:009:003 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up
silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
38:009:004 Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will smite her
power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
38:009:005 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.
38:009:006 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the
pride of the Philistines.
38:009:007 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.
38:009:008 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.
38:009:009 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.
38:009:010 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.
38:009:011 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent
forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
38:009:012 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to
day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
38:009:013 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.
38:009:014 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.
38:009:015 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.
38:009:016 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.
38:009:017 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty!
corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
38:010:001 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.
38:010:002 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.
38:010:003 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.
38:010:004 Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out
of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.
38:010:005 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.
38:010:006 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.
38:010:007 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.
38:010:008 I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed
them: and they shall increase as they have increased.
38:010:009 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.
38:010:010 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.
38:010:011 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.
38:010:012 And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk
up and down in his name, saith the LORD.
38:011:001 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy
cedars.
38:011:002 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.
38:011:003 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.
38:011:004 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
38:011:005 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.
38:011:006 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.
38:011:007 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.
38:011:008 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul
lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
38:011:009 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.
38:011:010 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.
38:011:011 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.
38:011:012 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.
38:011:013 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.
38:011:014 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I
might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
38:011:015 And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the
instruments of a foolish shepherd.
38:011:016 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.
38:011:017 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.
38:012:001 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.
38:012:002 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.
38:012:003 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.
38:012:004 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.
38:012:005 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.
38:012:006 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.
38:012:007 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.
38:012:008 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.
38:012:009 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to
destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
38:012:010 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.
38:012:011 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as
the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
38:012:012 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;
38:012:013 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives
apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
38:012:014 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their
wives apart.
38:013:001 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.
38:013:002 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.
38:013:003 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.
38:013:004 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:
38:013:005 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for
man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
38:013:006 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.
38:013:007 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.
38:013:008 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.
38:013:009 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.
38:014:001 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be
divided in the midst of thee.
38:014:002 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.
38:014:003 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those
nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
38:014:004 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.
38:014:005 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.
38:014:006 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall
not be clear, nor dark:
38:014:007 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.
38:014:008 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.
38:014:009 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day
shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
38:014:010 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.
38:014:011 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter
destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
38:014:012 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.
38:014:013 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.
38:014:014 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.
38:014:015 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.
38:014:016 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.
38:014:017 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.
38:014:018 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.
38:014:019 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of
all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
38:014:020 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.
38:014:021 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.