Judgments upon Moab, &c. CHAP. III.

Jerusalem reproved and Ashkelon a desolation: they lie down in! every one that passshall drive out Ashdod at the eth by her shall hiss, and wag his noon-day, and Ekron shall be hand.

rooted up.

5 Wo unto the inhabitants of the

CHAP. III.

sea coasts, the nation of the Che polluted, to the oppressing
Jerusalem sharply reproved.
Che-Wo her that is filthy and
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rethites the word of the LORD is
against you; O Canaan, the land of city!
the Philistines, I will even destroy
thee, that there shall be no inha-
bitant.

6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings, and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

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.

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 cap- 5 The just LORD is in the midst tivity. thereof; he will not do iniquity: 8 I have heard the reproach of every morning doth he bring his Moab, and the revilings of the judgment to light, he faileth not; children of Ammon, whereby they but the unjust knoweth no shame. have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

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.

9 Therefore, as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, inhabitant. and the children of Ammon as 7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear Gomorrah,, even the breeding of nettles, and salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

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.

81 Therefore, wait ye upon me, 10 This shall they have for their saith the LORD, until the day pride, because they have re- that I rise up to the prey for my proached and magnified themselves determination is to gather the against the people of the LORD of nations, that I may assemble the hosts. kingdoms, to pour upon them 11 The LORD will be terrible mine indignation, even all my unto them; for he will famish all fierce anger: for all the earth shall the gods of the earth; and men be devoured with the fire of my shall worship him, every one from jealousy. his place, even all the isles of the heathen.

12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

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 con sent.

13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy 10 From beyond the rivers of Assyria; and will make Nineveh a Ethiopia my suppliants, even the desolation, and dry like a wilder-daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.

ness.

14 And flocks shall lie down in 11 In that day shalt thou not be the midst of her, all the beasts of ashamed for all thy doings, wherethe nations: both the cormorant in thou hast transgressed against and the bittern shall lodge in the me: for then I will take away out of upper lintels of it; their voice the midst of thee them that rejoice shali sing in the windows; desola- in thy pride, and thou shalt no tion shall be in the thresholds: for more be haughty because of my he shall uncover the cedar work. holy mountain.

15 This is the rejoicing city that 12 I will also leave in the midst dwelt carelessly, that said in her of thee an afflicted and poor peoheart, I am, and there is none be-ple, and they shall trust in the sides me: how is she become a name of the LORD.

desolation, a place for beasts tol 13 The remnant of Israel shall

Salvation promised to Zion. HAGGAI,

Rebuilding of the Temple not do iniquity, nor speak lies; save, he will rejoice over thee with neither shall a deceitful tongue be joy; he will rest in his love, he will found in their mouth: for they joy over thee with singing. shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

¶ HAGGAI.

9 Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when ye brought The Glory of the Second Temple. it home, I did blow upon it. Why? TN the seventh month, in the ith the LORD of hosts. Because I one and twentieth day of the

The people encouraged.

CHAP. II. God's promise to Zerubbabel.

month, came the word of the | And the priests answered and said, LORD by the prophet Haggai, say- It shall be unclean.

ing,

2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealticl, 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?

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, con-
sider from this day and upward,
from before a stone was laid upon
a stone in the temple of the
LORD:

4 Yet now be strong, O Zerub- 16 Since those days were, when babel, saith the LORD; and be one came to a heap of twenty strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech measures, there were but ten: when the high priest; and be strong, all one came to the press-fat for to ye people of the land, saith the draw out fifty vessels out of the LORD, and work: for I am with press, there were but twenty. 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 osts.

9 The glory of this latter house hall be greater than of the former, aith the LORD of hosts: and in his place will I give peace, saith he LORD of hosts.

10 1 In the four and twentieth ay of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, aying,

11 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Ask now the priests concerning the aw, saying,

12 If one bear holy flesh in the kirt of his garment, and with his kirt do touch bread, or pottage, or vine, or oil, or any meat, shall it e holy? And the priests answered nd said, No.

13 Then said Haggai, If one that s unclean by a dead body touch ny of these, shall it be unclean?

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 T 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.

T ZECHARIAH.

CHAP. I. Zechariahexhorteth to Repentance. N the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came e word of the LORD unto Ze

chariah, the son of Barachiah, the
son of Iddo the prophet, saying,,

2 The LORD hath been sore dis-
pleased with your fathers.
3 Therefore, say thou unto them,

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Comfortable promises

ZECHARIAH, are made to Jerusalem

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; | pleased with the heathen that are Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD at ease: for I was but a little dis of hosts, and I will turn unto you, pleased, and they helped forward the affliction. 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.

71 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 Barachiah, 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.

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 1 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 ma 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.

I

CHAP. II.

The Redemption of Zion. LIFTED up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 Then said 1, 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,

11 And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the 4 And said unto him, Rus myrtle-trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the speak to this young man, saying. earth, and behold, all the earth sit-Jerusalem shall be inhabited a teth still, and is at rest. towns without walls for the mal titude of men and cattle there in:

12 T Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have 5 For I, saith the LORD, will be mercy on Jerusalem and on the unto her a wall of fire round cities of Judah, against which thou about, and will be the glory in the hast had indignation these three-midst of her. score and ten years?

13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.

6 T 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 Ba bylon.

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. 8 For thus saith the LORD of and for Zion with a great jealousy. hosts: After the glory hath he sent 15 And I am very sore dis-me unto the nations which spoiled

Christ, the Branch, promised. CHAP. IV. The golden candlestick, &e. you: for he that toucheth you, I stone shall be seven eyes: behold, toucheth the apple of his eye.

2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, 12 And the LORD shall inherit and behold a candlestick, all of Judah his portion in the holy gold, with a bowl upon the top of land, and shall choose Jerusalem it, and his seven lamps thereon, again. and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof: