Chapter 1
1 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord was addressed to Zechariah, son of Barachiah, little-son of Addo, the prophet, in these terms:
2 Yahweh was very angry with your fathers.
3 And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord of hosts: Return to me, declares the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.
4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets preached, saying, »Thus says the Lord of hosts: Turn therefore from your evil ways, and from your evil deeds!» and they did not listen or pay attention to me, — oracle of the Lord.
5 Where are your fathers? And the prophets, could they live forever?
6 But did not my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, reach your ancestors, so that they repented and said, »As the Lord Almighty determined to deal with us, according to our ways and our deeds, so he has dealt with us.«
7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Sabbath, in the second year of Darius, the word of God came addressed to Zechariah, son of Barachiah, little-son of Addo, the prophet, in these terms:
8 I had a vision during the night: Behold, a man was riding on a red horse, and he was standing among myrtle trees in a shady place, and there was Behind him were red, chestnut and white horses.
9 I said, »What are these, my lord?» And the angel who was speaking with me said to me, »I will show you what these are.«
10 Then the man who was standing among the myrtles spoke and said, »These are the ones whom the Lord has sent to roam the earth.«
11 And they answered the angel of the Lord who was standing among the myrtles, and said, »We have gone throughout the earth, and behold, the whole earth is inhabited and at rest.«
12 The angel of the Lord spoke and said, »Lord Almighty, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these past seventy years?«
13 And Yahweh spoke kind words and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.
14 And the angel who was speaking with me said to me, »Proclaim this: Thus says the Lord of hosts: I was very zealous for Jerusalem and for Zion;
15 and I am filled with great anger against the nations that live in opulence! For I was a little angry, and they worked for ruin.
16 Therefore this is what the Lord says: I will return to Jerusalem with compassion, and my house will be rebuilt there, declares the Lord of hosts, and the measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.
17 Proclaim this again: This is what the Lord Almighty says: My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.«
Chapter 2
1 I lifted up my eyes and behold, four horns.
2 Then I said to the angel who was speaking with me, »What are these?» He said to me, »These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.«
3 And Yahweh showed me four blacksmiths.
4 And I said, »What are these coming to do?» He answered, »These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one lifted up their head, and these have come to strike them with terror, to cut down the horns of the nations that raised their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.
5 I looked up and saw: And behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
6 And I said, »Where are you going?» And he said to me, » I will to measure Jerusalem to see what its width and length should be.«
7 And behold, the angel who spoke with me appeared; and another angel appeared, going to meet him;
8 and he said to him, »Run! Speak to this young man in these terms: It is like an open city that Jerusalem will be inhabited, so many men and beasts will be within it.
9 And I will be to her, — declares the Lord, — a wall of fire all around, and I will be glorious in her midst.
10 Hey! Hey! Flee from the land of the north, — declares the Lord, for I have scattered you to the four winds of heaven, — declares the Lord.
11 Hey! Zion, escape, you who dwell in the daughter of Babylon!
12 For this is what the Lord Almighty says: To its glory he sent me to the nations that plundered you; for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye.
13 For behold, I shake my hand over them, and they shall be plunder for those who are enslaved to them; and you shall know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me.
14 Shout and be glad, daughter of Zion; for behold, I come and dwell in your midst, declares the Lord.
15 Many nations will join themselves to Yahweh on that day, and they will be my people; and I will dwell in your midst, and you will know that Yahweh of armies has sent me to you.
16 Yahweh will possess Judah as his portion in the holy land, and he will again choose Jerusalem.
17 Let all flesh be silent before Yahweh, for he has ascended from his holy dwelling.
Chapter 3
1 He showed me Jesus the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to oppose him.
2 And the Lord said to Satan, »The Lord rebuke you, Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this man a brand plucked from the fire?«
3 Now Jesus was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel.
4 And the angel He then spoke to those standing before him, saying, »Take off his filthy clothes.» And he said to him, »See, I have removed your iniquity from you, and I have clothed you in rich garments.«
5 And I said, »Let them put a clean turban on his head.» So they put the clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments, and the angel of the Lord was standing there.
6 And the angel of the Lord declared to Jesus:
7 This is what the Lord Almighty says: If you walk in my ways and keep my ministry, then you shall govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you free access among those standing here.
8 Listen then, Jesus, high priest, you and your colleagues who sit before you: — for they are men of omen; — Behold, I am going to bring my servant Branch.
9 For this is the stone I have set before Jesus; on this "There is one stone with seven eyes; behold, I will carve its image," declares the Lord of hosts, "and I will remove the iniquity of this land in one day!"
10 On that day, — declares the Lord of hosts, you will invite one another under the vine and under the fig tree.
Chapter 4
1 The angel who was speaking with me returned, and he woke me up like a man waking from his sleep.
2 And he said to me, »What do you see?» I answered, »I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with its basin on top, having its seven lamps with seven conduits for the lamps which are at the top of the candelabra.
3 And two olive trees are next to him, one to the right of the pool, and the other to his left.«
4 And I spoke again and said to the angel who was speaking with me, »What are these things, my lord?«
5 The angel who was speaking with me answered me and said, »Do you not know what these things are?» I replied, »No, my lord.«
6 And he continued and said to me:
This is the word of Yahweh to Zerubbabel, namely: "Not by an army, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says Yahweh of armies.
7 Who are you, great mountain, before Zerubbabel? You will be a plain. And he will lift up the stone from the summit amid shouts of acclamation: Grace, grace upon it!«
8 The word of the Lord came to me addressed in these terms:
9 "The hands of Zerubbabel have founded this house, and his hands will finish it, and you will know that Yahweh of armies has sent me to you.
10 For who would despise the time for little things? They will rejoice when they see the plumb line in Zerubbabel's hand.«
»"These seven" lamps These are the eyes of Yahweh, which range throughout the earth.«
11 I spoke again and said to him, »What are these two olive trees on the right and left of the lampstand?«
12 I spoke again and said to him, »What are these two bunches of olives that are beside the two golden funnels from which the gold flows?«
13 He spoke to me, saying, »Do you not know what it is?» I replied, »No, my lord.«
14 And he said to me, »These are the two anointed sons who stand by the Lord of all the earth.«
Chapter 5
1 I looked up again and saw: And behold, a flying scroll.
2 He said to me, »What do you see?» I said, »I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits.«
3 And he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for, according to what is in it…” writing, Anyone who steals will be swept away from here, and, according to what is there writing, Anyone who swears will be swept away from here.
4 I have unleashed it, — oracle of Yahweh of armies, — and it will come to the house of the thief and to the house of him who swears falsely by my name; it will lodge itself in the middle of his house and consume it, the wood and the stones.
5 The angel who was speaking with me appeared and said to me, »Lift up your eyes and see what appears.» I said, »What is it?«
6 He said, »It is the ephah that appears.« And he added, »This is what their eyes throughout the land are fixed on.«
7 And behold, a lead disc was lifted up, and there was a woman seat in the middle of the ephah.
8 He said: »This women "That is dishonesty." And he pushed it back into the middle of the ephah and threw the lead weight over its opening.
9 And I lifted my eyes, and I saw. And behold, two women appeared; wind blowing in their wings; they had wings like the wings of a stork. And they lifted up the ephah between heaven and earth.
10 I said to the angel who was speaking with me, »Where are they taking the ephah?«
11 He answered me:» They win to build him a house in the land of Sennaar; and, when it has been founded, he will be placed there in his place.
Chapter 6
1 I raised my eyes again and I saw: And behold, four chariots were coming out from between the two mountains, and the mountains were mountains of bronze.
2 The first chariot had red horses, the second chariot had black horses,
3 to the third chariot of white horses, and to the fourth chariot of dappled, vigorous horses.
4 I spoke and said to the angel who was speaking with me, »What are these, my lord?«
5 The angel answered and said to me, »These are the four winds of heaven that have just stood before the Lord of all the earth.«
6 The tank to which there are black horses went out towards the northern country; the white ones went out after them, and the speckled ones went out towards the southern country.
7 The couriers Vigorous men went out and asked to go and roam the earth. The angel said to them, »Go, roam the earth!» And they roamed the earth.
8 And he called me and spoke to me, saying, »See, those who went to the land of the north have calmed my spirit in the land of the north.«.
9 The word of the Lord came to me addressed in these terms:
10 Take of the hand exiles from Holdai, Tobiah, and Idaiah—you yourself will go on that day to the house of Josiah, where they have gone. upon arrival of Babylon, —
11 and you shall take silver and gold, and you shall make crowns, and you THE you will place on the head of Jesus, son of Josedec, the high priest.
12 You shall speak to him in these words: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold the man whose name is Branch; he shall spring up in his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord.
13 He will build the temple of Yahweh, and will be clothed with majesty; he will sit as sovereign on his throne, and he will be priest on his throne, and between the two there will be a council of peace.
14 And the crown will belong to Helem, to Tobiah, to Idaiah, and to Hen, son of Zephaniah, as a memorial in the temple of Yahweh.
15 of men Those who are far away will come and work on building the temple of the Lord, and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you. This will happen if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord.
Chapter 7
1 In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord was addressed to Zechariah, in the fourth day of the ninth month, in Casleu.
2 Bethel had sent Sarasar and Rogommelech, with his men, to implore Yahweh,
3 to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of hosts and to the prophets, saying, »Should I weep in the fifth month and abstain from sex, as I have done for so many years?«
4 The word of the Lord of hosts came to me addressed in these terms:
5 Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying: When you have fasted and observed the mourning on the fifth and seventh month, And that For seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?
6 And when you eat and drink, is it not you who eat and drink?
7 Are not there the words that Yahweh proclaimed through the ancient prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and at peace, with its cities around it, and when the Negev and the Shephelah were inhabited?
8 The word of Yahweh was addressed to Zachariah in these terms:
9 Thus said the Lord of hosts, saying: “Render true justice; practice mercy And compassion each towards his brother;
10 Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the foreigner or the poor, and do not plot evil against one another in your hearts.«
11 But they refused to listen, they turned a rebellious shoulder and hardened their ears so as not to hear.
12 They hardened their hearts like diamond, so that they would not hear the law and the words that the Lord Almighty had spoken to them by his Spirit through the ancient prophets. Therefore the Lord Almighty was very angry.
13 And it came to pass: »Just as he called, but they did not listen, so they will call, but I will not listen to them,” says the Lord of hosts.
14 I will scatter them among all the nations they do not know, and behind them the land will be desolate, with no one passing through or returning.» They have made a land of delights into a desert.
Chapter 8
1 The word of the Lord of hosts came hear in these terms:
2 This is what the Lord Almighty says: I am very zealous for Zion; I am very angry with her.
3 This is what the Lord says: I have returned to Zion and I will dwell in Jerusalem; Jerusalem will be called the city of truth, and the mountain of the Lord Almighty will be called the holy mountain.
4 This is what the Lord Almighty says: Old men and women will again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with his staff in his hand, because of the great number of their days.
5 The city squares will be filled with young boys and girls playing in its squares.
6 This is what the Lord Almighty says: If it seems wonderful to the remnant of this people in those days, will it also be wonderful in my sight? — declares the Lord Almighty.
7 This is what the Lord Almighty says: I am going to deliver my people from the land of the east and from the land of the setting sun.
8 I will bring them in and they will live in the midst of Jerusalem; they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and justice.
9 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Be strong, you who hear these words from the mouths of the prophets in these days.” spoke on the day when the house of Yahweh of hosts was founded, so that the temple might be rebuilt.
10 For before those days there was no wage for men, no wage for cattle, no safety from the enemy for those who went out and came in, and I had set all men against one another.
11 But now I am no longer with the remnant of this people as in the days of old, — declares the Lord of hosts.
12 For the seed will prosper, the vine will yield its fruit, the earth will give its produce, the heavens will give their dew, and I will give the remnant of this people as a possession of all these things.
13 And it will come to pass: as you have been a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will deliver you, and you will be a blessing! Do not be afraid, let your hands be strong!
14 For this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Just as I intended to bring disaster on you when your ancestors provoked me to anger,” says the Lord Almighty, “and I did not relent,”,
15 So, on the contrary, I intend in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah; do not be afraid!
16 These are the words you shall observe: Speak truthfully to one another, and administer justice in your gates with truth and for peace;
17 Do not plot evil against one another in your hearts, nor love to swear falsely; for these are all things I hate, declares the Lord.
18 The word of the Lord of hosts came to me addressed in these terms:
19 This is what the Lord Almighty says: The fast of the fourth month, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth month will be changed for the house of Judah with rejoicing and gladness, and with joyful solemnities.
20 This is what the Lord Almighty says: Peoples and peoples from many cities will still come.
21 The inhabitants of one will go to the other, saying, »Come, let us go and implore the Lord and seek the Lord of hosts!» — »I too will go!«
22 Many peoples and powerful nations will come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and implore the Lord.
23 This is what the Lord Almighty says: In those days ten men from all the languages of the nations will seize, Yes, They will seize the hem of a Jew's robe, saying, 'We want to go with you too, because we have heard that God is with you.'«
Chapter 9
1 Sentence
The word of the Lord against the land of Hadrach; and in Damascus shall be his dwelling place, — for the Lord has his eye on mankind, and on all the tribes of Israel; —
2 and also in Hamath, a neighbor of Damascus, in Tyre, as well as in Sidon, because their wisdom is great.
3 Tyre built herself a citadel, she amassed silver like dust, and gold like the mud of the streets.
4 Behold, the Lord will seize it; he will strike his power upon the sea, and it will itself be consumed by fire.
5 Ashkelon will see it and be afraid; Gaza too, and writhe in grief; Ekron as well, for its hope is confounded. There will no longer be a king in Gaza, and Ashkelon will no longer be inhabited.
6 A vile foreigner will settle in Azoth, and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.
7 I will remove his blood from his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth; and he also shall be a remnant for our God; he shall be like a leader in Judah; and Accaron shall be like the Jebusite.
8 I will camp around my house to defend her ; against all army, All going back and forth; and no oppressor will pass through their midst anymore, for now I have seen with my own eyes.
9 Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout aloud, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you; righteous and protected is he. of God ; he is humble; mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the offspring of a donkey.
10 I will cut off the chariots from Ephraim and the horses from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be destroyed. He will speak peace to the nations; his dominion will extend from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.
11 For you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I will deliver your captives from the waterless pit.
12 Return to the stronghold, captives of hope! Even today I declare: I will repay you double.
13 For I will bind Judah for myself, and on the bow I will place Ephraim; I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Javan, and I will make you like a mighty sword.
14 Yahweh will appear above them, his arrow will go forth like lightning; the Lord Yahweh will sound the trumpet, and will advance in the storms of the south.
15 The Lord of hosts will protect them; they will devour, they will trample the sling stones underfoot! They will drink, they will thrash about like taken from wine, and they will be filled like the cup of sacrifices, like the horns of the altar.
16 Yahweh, their God, will be their salvation on that day, salvation of the flock that is his people; they will be like diadem stones, shining in his land.
17 What prosperity, what beauty is theirs! Wheat will make the young men grow, and new wine the virgins.
Chapter 10
1 Ask the Lord for rain in the spring. It is the Lord who makes the lightning; he will give them abundant rain, and to each one grass in his field.
2 For the teraphim spoke of nonsense, and the diviners saw false visions; they uttered vain dreams and gave false comforts. Therefore they went away like sheep; they were oppressed for lack of a shepherd.
3 My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the goats!
For Yahweh of armies visits his flock, the house of Judah, and makes them his honorable horse in battle.
4 From him will come The troop, from him the stake, from him the war bow; from him all the leaders will come forth together.
5 They will be like heroes, treading the mud of the roads in battle; they will fight, for Yahweh will be with them, and they will put to shame those who ride on horses.
6 I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph; I will restore them, for I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had not rejected them. For I am the Lord their God, and I will answer them.
7 Those of’Ephraim will be like heroes, and their hearts will be joyful as with wine; their children will see it and rejoice, and their hearts will exult in Yahweh.
8 I will whistle after them, and I will gather them together, for I have redeemed them, and they will multiply as they had multiplied.
9 When I have scattered them among the peoples, and they remember me in distant countries, they will live with their children and they will return.
10 I will bring them back from the land of Egypt, and I will gather them from Assyria, and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, and he will not be found enough space for them.
11 He will cross by sea, sea In distress, he will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the river will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be brought low, and the scepter of Egypt will be removed.
12 I will strengthen them in the Lord, and they will walk in his name, — declares the Lord.
Chapter 11
1. Open your doors, Lebanon, and may fire devour your cedars!
2 Lament, cypress, for the cedar has fallen, the trees Magnificent trees have been ravaged! Lament, oaks of Basan, for the impenetrable forest is felled!
3 We hear the lamentation of the shepherds, because their glory is ruined; we hear the roaring of the young lions, because the pride of the Jordan has been ruined.
4 This is what the Lord my God says: »Shepherd the flock of slaughter
5 which their buyers kill with impunity, and of which the sellers say: Blessed be Yahweh! I am rich, — and which their shepherds do not spare.
6 For I will no longer spare the inhabitants of the land, declares the Lord; behold, I myself will deliver the people into the hands of one another and into the hands of their king; they will devastate the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand.«
7 So I became the shepherd of the slaughtered flock, and also of more wretched members of the flock. I took two shepherd's crooks; I named one Grace, and I named the other Bond, and I shepherded the flock.
8 I removed the three pastors in one month.
And I lost patience with the sheep, and they too were weary of me.
9 And I said, »I will no longer shepherd you; let the one that dies, die; let the one that disappears, disappear; and let those that remain devour one another!«
10 I took my staff, Grace, and broke it, to break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
11 It was broken on that day, and so the more The wretched of the flock, who esteemed me, knew that this was the word of Yahweh.
12 And I said to them, »If it seems good to you, give me my wages; if not, do not.» And they weighed out my wages, thirty centuries of money.
13 Then the Lord said to me, »Throw it to the potter—that magnificent price at which they valued me!» So I took the thirty centuries of silver and I threw them into the house of Yahweh, to the potter.
14 I then broke my second staff, Lien, to break brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15 Yahweh said to me, »Now take up the equipment of a new shepherd.
16 For behold, I myself will raise up over the land a shepherd who will not care for the lost sheep, nor seek the scattered, nor heal the injured; he will not feed the healthy, but eat the flesh of the fat, and will split their hooves.
17 Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! May the sword be upon his arm and upon his right eye! May his arm wither, and may his right eye be extinguished!«
Chapter 12
1. The sentence. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel.
The oracle of the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and formed the spirit of man within him:
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a shaking point for all the surrounding peoples; and it will also be so for Judah when Jerusalem is besieged.
3 And it will happen on that day: I will make Jerusalem a stone for all peoples to lift; whoever lifts it will be severely injured, and all the nations of the earth will gather against it.
4 On that day, declares the Lord, I will strike all the horses with terror, and their riders with madness; I will keep my eyes open on the house of Judah, but I will strike all the horses of the peoples with blindness.
5 And the leaders of Judah will say in their hearts, »The inhabitants of Jerusalem are a strength for me, by the Lord of hosts, their God.«
6 On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a blazing fire in a woodpile, like a flaming torch in a sheaf; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples on the right and on the left, while Jerusalem will remain in its place, in Jerusalem.
7 Yahweh will save the tents of Judah first, so that the pride of the house of David and the pride of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not rise above Judah.
8 On that day the Lord will set up a wall around the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and whoever stumbles among them will be like David on that day, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord before them.
9 And it will happen on that day: I will strive to destroy all the peoples who come against Jerusalem.
10 And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication, and they will turn their eyes on me whom they have pierced. And they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only son; they will cry bitterly at him, as one cry bitterly over a firstborn child.
11 On that day there will be great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Adadremmon in the valley of Mageddo.
12 The land will mourn, each family separately; the family of the house of David separately, and his wives separately; the family of the house of Nathan separately, and his wives separately;
13 the family of the house of Levi apart, and his wives apart; the family of Shemei apart, and his wives apart;
14 all the families that remain, each family separately and its women separately.
Chapter 13
1 On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem to wash sin and defilement.
2 And it will happen on that day, — oracle of Yahweh of hosts: I will abolish the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be mentioned; and I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.
3 And if anyone prophesies again, his father and mother, who begot him, will say to him, »You shall not live, for you have spoken lies in the name of Yahweh!» And his father and mother, who begot him, will pierce him while he prophesies.
4 And it will happen on that day: The prophets will be ashamed, each of them because of his vision when he prophesies, and they will no longer wear the hairy cloak to lie.
5 Such He will say, »I am not a prophet; I am a farmer, for a man bought me in my youth.«
6 And they will say to him, »What are these wounds on your hands?» and he will answer, »I received these blows in the house of my friends.«
7 Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my companion, declares the Lord of hosts! Strike the shepherd, and let the flock be scattered. And I will turn my hand against the little ones.
8 And throughout the whole land, — declares the Lord, — two-thirds shall be destroyed, shall perish, and the’other a third will be left there.
9 I will bring this third into the fire and refine them like silver, and test them like gold. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, »They are my people!» And they will say, »The Lord is my God!«
Chapter 14
1 Behold, the day is coming for the Lord, and your spoils shall be divided in your midst.
2 I will gather all the nations before Jerusalem for battle; and the city will be taken, the houses will be plundered, women raped, and half the city will go into captivity; but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
3 And Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fights, on a day of battle.
4 On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is east of Jerusalem; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west into a very large valley; half of the mountain will move northward, and the’other halfway towards midday;
5 and you will flee through the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah. And the Lord my God will come, all the saints with you.
6 And it will come to pass on that day: There will be no light, but cold and ice.
7 It will be a unique day, and it is known to Yahweh; and it will be neither day nor night, and at the time of evening there will be light.
8 And it will happen on that day: Living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the eastern sea and half toward the western sea; in will be Thus in summer as in winter.
9 And Yahweh will become king over all the earth; on that day Yahweh will be unique, and his name unique.
10 The whole country will be transformed into a plain, from Gibeah to Remmon, south of Jerusalem.
And Jerusalem will be erected and will occupy its place, from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the first gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses.
11 People will live there, and there will be no more curse; and Jerusalem will rest securely.
12 This is the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who fought against Jerusalem: He will cause their flesh to rot while they are still standing; their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
13 And it will happen on that day: There will be great confusion among them from the Lord; each one will seize the hand of his brother, and they will raise their hands against one another.
14 Judah will also fight against Jerusalem. And the riches of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together, gold, silver, and clothing in very great quantities.
15 And the plague that will strike the horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the animals that are in those camps will be like that plague.
16 All those who remain, from all the nations that came against Jerusalem, shall go up every year to worship before the King Yahweh of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
17 As for the families of the earth that do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King Yahweh of hosts, there will be no rain on them.
18 And if the family from Egypt does not go up and come, There will also be no rain on her; She will be struck by the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
20 On that day there will be on the bells of the horses: »Holiness to the Lord»; and the cauldrons in the house of the Lord will be like the bowls before the altar.
21 Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holy to the Lord Almighty. All those who offer sacrifices shall come and take some of it and cook in it. their meats, and there will be no more Canaanites in the house of Yahweh of hosts on that day.
