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Zechariah 4

  • 4:1 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.
  • 4:2 And said to me, What see you? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are on the top thereof:
  • 4:3 And two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side thereof.
  • 4:4 So I answered and spoke to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
  • 4:5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said to me, Know you not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
  • 4:6 Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, said the LORD of hosts.
  • 4:7 Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace to it.
  • 4:8 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  • 4:9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
  • 4:10 For who has 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.
  • 4:11 Then answered I, and said to him, What are these two olive trees on the right side of the candlestick and on the left side thereof?
  • 4:12 And I answered again, and said to him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
  • 4:13 And he answered me and said, Know you not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
  • 4:14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the LORD of the whole earth.

Zechariah 3

  • 3:1 And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
  • 3:2 And the LORD said to Satan, The LORD rebuke you, O Satan; even the LORD that has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
  • 3:3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
  • 3:4 And he answered and spoke to those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And to him he said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with change of raiment.
  • 3:5 And I said, Let them set a fair turban on his head. So they set a fair turban on his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.
  • 3:6 And the angel of the LORD protested to Joshua, saying,
  • 3:7 Thus said the LORD of hosts; If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my charge, then you shall also judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you places to walk among these that stand by.
  • 3:8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you, and your fellows that sit before you: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
  • 3:9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; on one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the engraving thereof, said the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
  • 3:10 In that day, said the LORD of hosts, shall you call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.

Zechariah 2

  • 2:1 I lifted up my eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
  • 2:2 Then said I, Where go you? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.
  • 2:3 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,
  • 2:4 And said to him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:
  • 2:5 For I, said the LORD, will be to her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the middle of her.
  • 2:6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, said the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, said the LORD.
  • 2:7 Deliver yourself, O Zion, that dwell with the daughter of Babylon.
  • 2:8 For thus said the LORD of hosts; After the glory has he sent me to the nations which spoiled you: for he that touches you touches the apple of his eye.
  • 2:9 For, behold, I will shake my hand on them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.
  • 2:10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, see, I come, and I will dwell in the middle of you, said the LORD.
  • 2:11 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the middle of you, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
  • 2:12 And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
  • 2:13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.

Zechariah 1

  • 1:1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
  • 1:2 The LORD has been sore displeased with your fathers.
  • 1:3 Therefore say you to them, Thus said the LORD of hosts; Turn you to me, said the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, said the LORD of hosts.
  • 1:4 Be you not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus said the LORD of hosts; Turn you now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor listen to me, said the LORD.
  • 1:5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
  • 1:6 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 to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so has he dealt with us.
  • 1:7 On 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 to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
  • 1:8 I saw by night, and behold a man riding on 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.
  • 1:9 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said to me, I will show you what these be.
  • 1:10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD has sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
  • 1:11 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 sits still, and is at rest.
  • 1:12 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these three score and ten years?
  • 1:13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.
  • 1:14 So the angel that communed with me said to me, Cry you, saying, Thus said the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
  • 1:15 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.
  • 1:16 Therefore thus said the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, said the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth on Jerusalem.
  • 1:17 Cry yet, saying, Thus said 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.
  • 1:18 Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
  • 1:19 And I said to the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
  • 1:20 And the LORD showed me four carpenters.
  • 1:21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spoke, 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.