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Zephaniah
1
The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
2
I will utterly consume all
things
from off the land, saith the LORD.
3
I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
4
I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; 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 worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship
and
that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
6
And them that are turned back from the LORD; and
those
that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
7
Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD
is
at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
8
And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD’S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king’s children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
9
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.
10
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD,
that there shall be
the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
11
Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.
12
And it shall come to pass at that time,
that
I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
13
Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, 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 hasteth 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 distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness 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 distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
18
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
2
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
2
Before the decree bring forth,
before
the day pass 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; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger.
4
For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
5
Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD
is
against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
6
And the sea coast shall be dwellings
and
cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
7
And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
8
I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified
themselves
against their border.
9
Therefore
as
I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah,
even
the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
10
This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified
themselves
against the people of the LORD of hosts.
11
The LORD
will be
terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and
men
shall worship him, every one from his place,
even
all the isles of the heathen.
12
Ye Ethiopians also, ye
shall be
slain by my sword.
13
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation,
and
dry like a wilderness.
14
And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it;
their
voice shall sing in the windows; desolation
shall be
in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
15
This
is
the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I
am,
and
there is
none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss,
and
wag his hand.
3
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
2
She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she 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 persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
5
The just LORD
is
in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
6
I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
7
I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early,
and
corrupted all their doings.
8
Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination
is
to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation,
even
all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
9
For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
10
From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants,
even
the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.
11
In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed 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 also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
13
The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make
them
afraid.
14
Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
15
The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel,
even
the LORD,
is
in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.
16
In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not:
and to
Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.
17
The LORD thy God in the midst of thee
is
mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
18
I will gather
them that are
sorrowful for the solemn assembly,
who
are of thee,
to whom
the reproach of it
was
a burden.
19
Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.
20
At that time will I bring you
again,
even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD.
Haggai
1
In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
2
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’S house should be built.
3
Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4
Is it
time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house
lie
waste?
5
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
6
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, 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 wages earneth wages
to put it
into a bag with holes.
7
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
8
Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith 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? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that
is
waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
10
Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed
from
her fruit.
11
And I called 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 son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.
13
Then spake Haggai the LORD’S messenger in the LORD’S message unto the people, saying, I
am
with you, saith the LORD.
14
And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,
15
In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
2
In the seventh
month,
in the one and twentieth
day
of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,
2
Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,
3
Who
is
left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now?
is it
not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?
4
Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for
I am
with you, saith the LORD of hosts:
5
According to
the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.
6
For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it
is
a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry
land;
7
And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.
8
The silver
is
mine, and the gold
is
mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
9
The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
10
In the four and twentieth
day
of the ninth
month,
in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
11
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests
concerning
the law, saying,
12
If one bear holy flesh 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 answered and said, No.
13
Then said Haggai, If
one that is
unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
14
Then answered Haggai, and said, So
is
this people, and so
is
this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so
is
every work of their hands; and that which they offer there
is
unclean.
15
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
16
Since those
days
were, when
one
came to an heap of twenty
measures,
there were
but
ten: when
one
came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty
vessels
out of the press, there were
but
twenty.
17
I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye
turned
not to me, saith the LORD.
18
Consider 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, consider
it.
19
Is the seed 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 came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth
day
of the month, saying,
21
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
22
And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.
23
In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah
1
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,
2
The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.
3
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.
4
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.
5
Your fathers, where
are
they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
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 unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
7
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,
8
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.
9
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.
10
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.
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 sitteth still, and is at rest.
12
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?
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 said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
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.
16
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.
17
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.
18
Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
19
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.
20
And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.
21
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.
2
I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2
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.
3
And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,
4
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:
5
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.
6
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.
7
Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest
with
the daughter of Babylon.
8
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.
9
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.
10
Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
11
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.
12
And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
13
Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
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