the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and 14 dry like 'the' wilderness. And 'herds' shall lie down in the midst of her, 1all the beasts of the nations: both the pelican and the 'porcupine shall lodge in the chapiters thereof1: their voice shall sing in the windows; 'desolation shall be in the thresholds for he hath laid bare the cedar work. 15 This is the 'joyous' city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none else' 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.

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Woe to her that is rebellious' and 2 polluted, to the oppressing city! She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her 3 God. Her princes 'in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing! 4 till the morrow. Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have 'profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. 5) The LORD in the midst of her is Irighteous; he will not do iniquity; every morning doth he bring his judgement to light, he faileth not; but (6 the unjust knoweth no shame.

have cut off nations, their battlements are desolate; I have made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none 7 inhabitant. I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive correction; so her dwelling should not be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her: but they rose early and corrupted all their 8 doings. Therefore wait ye 'for' me, saith the LORD, until the day that I

9 jealousy. For then will I turn to the peoples' a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one 1o consent. 10 °From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia

11my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offer11 ing. 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 12thy proudly exulting ones', and thou shalt no more be haughty 12 in my holy mountain. But I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust 13 in the name of the LORD. 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 14 none shall make them afraid. Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, 15 O daughter of Jerusalem. The LORD hath taken away thy judgements, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not 181fear' 16 evil any more. In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: 1410 Zion, let not thine hands be 17) slack. The LORD thy God is in the midst of thee, 'a' mighty one whol will save he will rejoice over thee with joy, he will rest in his love, he 18) will joy over thee with singing. 0161 will gather them that sorrow! for the solemn assembly, who were of thee 18to whom the burden upon 19) 19her was a reproach. Behold, at that time I will deal with all them' that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven away; and I will make them a praise and a name, whose shame hath been in all the earth'.

at that time will I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all the peoples' of the earth, when I bring again your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD.

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15 Heb. be silent.

18 Or, They have been sorrowful for the solemn assembly which I took away from thee, for the lifting up of reproach against her "Or, are removed from 18 Or, which hast borne the burden of reproach [ties, thee. 19 According to some ancient authori

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11 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 Jehozadak', the high priest, 2) saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, "It is not the time for us to come, the time for the LORD'S house to be built. 3 °Then came the word of the LORD by 4 Haggai the prophet, saying, 'Is it la

time for you yourselves to dwell in your cieled houses, while this house 5 lieth waste? Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: 2Consider 6 your ways. 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 7 bag with holes. Thus saith the LORD 8 of hosts: 2Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, 9 saith the LORD. 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 lieth' waste, while ye run every man to 10 his own house. Therefore for your

sake the heaven 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 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.

spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the 14 LORD. And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak', 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 15 of hosts, their God, in the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

21) In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the 2 prophet, saying, Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak', the high priest, and to the (3 remnant of the people, saying, "Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes as 4 nothing? Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of 'Jehozadak'. the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith 5 the LORD of hosts, according to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, 'and' my spirit abode 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 desirable things 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 (9) mine, saith the LORD of hosts. The

of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, say11 ing, Thus saith the LORD of hosts:

Ask now the priests concerning the 12 law, saying, 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 become holy? And the priests answered 13 and said, No. 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 14 said, It shall be unclean. °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 15 offer there is unclean. 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 (16 LORD: through all that time, when one came to lan heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the winefat! for to draw out fifty vessels, there were but 17 twenty. I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; yet

ye turned not to me, saith the LORD. 18 Consider, I pray you, from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, Isince the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, con(19 sider it. Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, 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 the word of the LORD came Ithe second time unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, 21 saying, Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake 22 the heavens and the earth: and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; 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 23 brother. 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.

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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, 2 saying, "The LORD hath been sore 3 displeased with your fathers. Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts: 'Return' unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will Ireturn unto you, saith the LORD of (4 hosts. Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Return' ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, 5 saith the LORD. Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they 6 live for ever? But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not

1 Heb. since those days were.

lovertakel your fathers? and they Iturned 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 'Shebat', 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 in the 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 there were horses, red, sorrel', and 9 white. "Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will 10 shew thee what these be. And the 2 Or, Ishady place

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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 12 is at rest. 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 13 years? And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good 14 words, even comfortable words. So the angel that talked 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 15 jealousy. And I am very sore displeased with the nations that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the afflic16 tion. 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 lover! 17 Jerusalem. Cry yet again', 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 31 And I lifted up mine eyes, and 19 saw, and behold four horns. °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, 20 and Jerusalem. And the LORD (21 shewed me four Ismiths". °Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast down the horns of the nations', which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it. 21 And I lifted up mine eyes, and Isaw, and behold a man with

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2 measuring line in his hand. Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jeru

1 Or, helped for evil\.

2 Or, shall yet loverflow with prosperity

salem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length there3 of. 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 villages! without walls, by reason of the multitude 5 of men and cattle therein. °For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and 'I will (6 be the glory in the midst of her. Ho, ho, flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the 7 heaven, saith the LORD. Hol Zion, lescape, thou that dwellest with the *(8 daughter of Babylon. For thus saith the LORD of hosts: "After 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 lover' them, and they shall be a spoil to those that served them': and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts 10 hath sent me. Sing and rejoice, O

daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, 11 saith the LORD. And many nations shall join themselves 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 las' his portion in the holy land, and (13 shall yet choose Jerusalem. Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD: for he is waked up out of his holy habitation.

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And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and 'Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary!. 2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; 'yea', the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand 3 plucked out of the fire? Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. ©And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take the filthy garments from off him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from

thee, and I will clothe thee with 'rich * 5 apparel'. And I said, Let them set a fair 2mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments; and the 6 angel of the LORD stood by. And the angel of the LORD protested unto 7) Joshua, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts: If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou also shalt judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee a place of access among 8 these that stand by. Hear now, Ŏ Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee; for they are men which are a sign: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant 9 the 5Branch. For behold, the stone that I have 'set' before Joshua; upon one stone lare' 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. 10 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig

tree.

41 And the angel that talked with me

came again, and waked me, as a man 2 that is wakened out of his sleep. And 'he said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have 'seen', and behold, a candlestick all of gold, with its! bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, 3 which are upon the top thereof: and two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof. And!

I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What 5 are these, my lord? Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord. 6 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 *(7 spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain : and he shall bring forth the head stone with shoutings lof1 Grace, grace, unto it.

1 According to some ancient authorities, he said.

Or, turban Or, diadem

3 Or, places to walk Or, wonder Or, IShoot Or, [Sprout\

8 °Moreover the word of the LORD came 9 unto me, saying, "The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD 10) of hosts hath sent me unto you. For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel, even these seven, which are the eyes of the LORD; they run to and fro through the whole earth. 11 Then answered I, and said unto him,

What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and 12 upon the left side thereof? And I answered 'the second time1, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches, which are beside the two golden 'spouts, that' empty the golden 13 oil out of themselves? And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, * 14 my lord. Then said he, These are the two sons of oil, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.

51 Then again! I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying roll. 2 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 3 cubits. Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole land': for every one that stealeth shall be 'purged out! 10on the one side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be 'purged out 10on the other side ac4 cording to it. I will 'cause it 'to go' 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 labide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.