Zechariah Cross References - Thomson

¹ In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zacharias the Barachite, the son of Addo, the prophet, saying, ² The Lord was very angry with your fathers, ³ therefore thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Turn to me, saith the Lord of Hosts and4 I will turn to you saith the Lord of Hosts. ⁴ And be not like your fathers to whom the former prophets called, saying, "Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Turn from your evil ways and from your wicked devices, " but they hearkened not, nor gave attention to listen to me, saith the Lord. ⁵ As for your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, will they live forever? ⁶ But receive ye my words and my statutes; all that I, by my spirit, give in charge to my servants the prophets, who reached your fathers, when they addressed them and said, As the Lord Almighty determined to deal with us according to our ways, and according to our devices, so hath he dealt with us." ⁷ On the twenty fourth of the eleventh month, which is the month Sabat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, the Barachite, the son of Addo, the prophet, saying: ⁸ [I had been viewing the night and lo! a man mounted on a red horse, and he stood between the shady mountains, and behind him were horses, red and ash coloured, and dappled and white. ⁹ And I said, Lord what are these: and the angel who was talking with me said to me, I will shew thee what these are. ¹⁰ Then the man who stood between the mountains, addressing me said, These are they whom the Lord sent to go round this land. ¹¹ Then they addressed the angel of the Lord who stood between the mountains, and said. We have gone round all this land, and lo all the land is inhabited, and quiet. ¹² And the angel of the Lord, answered and said, O Lord Almighty, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, which thou hast overlooked those seventy years? ¹³ And the Lord Almighty answered the angel, who had been talking with me, with good determinations, and comfortable words. ¹⁴ Whereupon the angel who had been talking with me said to me; He cried with a loud voice saying: Thus saith the Lord Almighty, I have been jealous of Jerusalem and Sion with great jealousy: ¹⁵ and with great wrath I am angry with the nations who were set on. Because I was indeed a little displeased, but they were bent on mischief; ¹⁶ therefore thus saith the Lord, I will turn to Jerusalem, with compassion and my house shall be rebuilded in it, saith the Lord Almighty, and a line shall be stretched on Jerusalem. ¹⁷ And again the angel who had been talking with me, said to me; Again he cried with a loud voice and said, Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Again shall cities abound with prosperity. And again the Lord will compassionate Sion and make choice of Jerusalem. ¹⁸ Then I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and lo, four horns! ¹⁹ and I said to the angel who was talking with me, Lord, what are these? And he said to me, These are the horns which have scattered Juda and Israel and Jerusalem. ²⁰ Then the Lord shewed me four carpenters. ²¹ And I said, What are these going to do? And he said, Those four horns which scattered Juda and Israel are broken, and not one of them hath raised a head; now these are come to sharpen for themselves those four horns, namely the nations which lifted up a horn against the land of the Lord, to scatter it.

²⁴ So a stop was put to the work of the house of God in Jerusalem, and it continued stopped till the second year of the reign of Darius, king of the Persians.

¹⁴ And the elders of the Jews and the Levites went on with the building by the prophesying of Aggaius the prophet, and Zacharias the son of Addo, and they rebuilt and fitted it up again by the decree of the God of Israel, and by the decree of Cyrus and Darius, and Arthasastha, kings of Persia; ¹⁵ and having finished the house on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of king Darius,

⁴ [Omitted]

¹⁶ for Adadai, Zacharia; for Ganathoth, Mesolam;

¹ In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, a word of the Lord came by the ministry of Haggai the prophet, saying, "Say to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel of the tribe of Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedek the high priest, these words:

¹⁵ on the four and twentieth day of the sixth month in the second year of Darius the king.

¹⁰ On the twenty fourth of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, a word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet, saying,

²⁰ Moreover a word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai the prophet on the twenty fourth clay of the month, saying,

⁷ On the twenty fourth of the eleventh month, which is the month Sabat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, the Barachite, the son of Addo, the prophet, saying:

¹ And it came to pass in the fourth year of Darius the king, that a word of the Lord came to Zacharias on the fourth of the ninth month which is Chaseleu.

³⁵ that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth; from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias who was slain between the altar and the temple: Verily I say to you, it will be required of this very generation.

¹⁶ Thus saith the Lord, Behold I am bringing evils on this place and on the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Juda hath read. ¹⁷ Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me by the works of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place and shall not be quenched.

¹⁹ because thy heart was softened and thou didst humble thyself on the account of them soon as thou didst hear what I had spoken against this place and the inhabitants thereof; that they should become a desolation and a curse; and didst rend thy clothes and weep before me; for I heard, saith the Lord;

²⁶ Nevertheless the Lord turned not from the fervency of his great wrath with which he was incensed against Juda at the provocations with which Manasses had provoked him.

¹³ when he violated his engagements with Nabuchodonosar, to the performance of which he had caused him to swear by God; but hardened his neck, and strengthened his heart, not to return to the Lord God of Israel. ¹⁴ Now all the nobles of Juda, and the priests, and the people of the land abounded in the commission of the wicked abominations of the Gentiles, and had polluted the house of the Lord in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And the Lord the God of their fathers had sent to them by the ministry of his prophets, rising early, and sending his messengers, because he compassionated his people and his sanctuary. ¹⁶ But they continued to deride his messengers, and to despise his words, and insult his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord ascended against his people; until there was no remedy. ¹⁷ Therefore he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, and had no compassion on Sedekias, nor pity for their virgins. And they carried away their elders. He delivered all into their hands; ¹⁸ all the utensils of the house of God, great and small, and all the treasures of the house of the Lord and all the treasures of the king and of the nobles. All these he carried to Babylon. ¹⁹ And he burned the house of the Lord, and demolished the wall of Jerusalem, and burned with fire the palaces thereof, and utterly destroyed every thing that was beautiful, ²⁰ and removed to Babylon the few who were left; and they continued to be servants to him and his sons, until the reign of the Medes;

⁶ I said: Lord, I blush, and am ashamed to lift up, O my God, my face to thee; because our iniquities are multiplied over our head, and our transgressions are heaped up to heaven. ⁷ From the days of our fathers we are in great transgression, even to this day. And for our inquities, we and our kings and our children, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the nations, to the sword and to captivity, and to spoiling, and to confusion of face, as at this day.

¹³ Now after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for this our great transgression; though there is no God like our God; though thou hast blotted out our iniquities and given us deliverance;

²⁶ and turned and apostatised from thee, and cast thy law behind their backs: Nay, they slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee; and committed great provocations. ²⁷ Therefore thou didst deliver them into the hand of their enemies, who afflicted them. But when, in the time of their distress they cried to thee, thou from heaven didst hear, and in thy tender mercies which are great, thou didst send them deliverers, and save them out of the hand of them who were afflicting them.

¹ For the conclusion. For those who are still to be changed. For a monumental inscription. By David, for instruction, when he had burned Syrian Mesopotamia, and Syrian Sobal; and Joab had returned, when he smote in the valley of Salt, twelve thousand. GOD, thou didst cast us off and destroy us; thou wast angry, but hast had compassion on us.

⁵ How long, Lord, wilt thou be angry? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire forever? ⁶ Pour out thy wrath on the nations that have not acknowledged thee; and on kingdoms which have not invoked thy name.

⁶ Therefore my wrath and mine indignation was poured out and kindled to a flame in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a desolation and a waste, as at this day.

¹² [s] Ho! all ye who travel the way turn and see! is there any sorrow like this of mine, which he hath denounced against me. The Lord hath humbled me in the day of his fierce indignation. ¹³ From his loftiness he hath sent a fire; he brought it in among my bones. He hath spread a net for my feet and turned me backwards. He hath made me desolate and full of sorrow, all the live long day. ¹⁴ He hath kept a watch on my transgressions. They are wreathed round my hands. They have reached up to my neck. My strength is enfeebled. For into my hands the Lord hath sent pains. I cannot stand. ¹⁵ From amidst me the Lord hath moved all my mighty men. He hath brought upon me the time for crushing my chosen bands. The Lord trod out a vat for the virgin daughter of Juda.

³ In his fierce anger he broke the whole horn of Israel: he turned back his right hand from before his enemy: he kindled in Jacob a flaming fire, which devoured all around. ⁴ He bent his bow like an opposing enemy; like an adversary he strengthened his right hand and slew all the desires of mine eyes. In the tent of the daughter of Sion he poured out his wrath like fire. ⁵ The Lord became like an enemy. He overwhelmed Israel. He sunk her palaces. He destroyed his own munitions, and multiplied on the daughter of Juda humiliation on humiliation.

⁴² We have sinned; we have been guilty of impiety; and thou hast not been appeased. ⁴³ Thou hast covered with wrath and discarded us; thou hast slain and hast not spared; ⁴⁴ thou hast covered thyself with a cloud because of prayer, that I may shut mine eyes and ⁴⁵ be cast off. Thou hast placed us in the midst of the peoples;

⁷ Our fathers sinned; they are no more. We have borne their transgressions.

³¹ therefore I poured out my wrath upon it, to destroy it utterly with the fire of mine indignation. Their ways I have requited on their heads, saith the Lord, Lord.

¹¹ and all Israel transgressed thy law, and declined to hearken to thy voice; therefore upon us came the curse and the execration which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God. Because we sinned against him, ¹² therefore he confirmed his words which he spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us great evils, such as never happened under the whole heaven; as was the case in Jerusalem.

¹ Assemble and make joint supplication, unimproved nation, ² before you become like a flitting flower; before the wrath of the Lord come upon you; before the day of the fierce anger of the Lord reach you. ³ Seek the Lord all ye meek of the land; exercise judgment and seek righteousness, and live answerably; that you may be sheltered in the day of the anger of the Lord.

³⁰ and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been their accomplices in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of them who killed the prophets. ³² As for you then, fill up the measure of your fathers.

⁵² Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? Indeed they have slain them who prophesied concerning the coming of that Righteous one, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers:

³⁰ In thy affliction, when all these things have come upon thee in the latter days, when thou shalt turn to the Lord thy God, and hearken to his voice; ³¹ because the Lord thy God is a merciful God; he will not forsake thee utterly, nor totally destroy thee. He will not forget the covenant of thy fathers, which the Lord confirmed to them with an oath.

² and shalt turn to the Lord thy God, and hearken to his voice, according to all that I this day command thee, with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul; ³ the Lord will heal thy sins, and have compassion on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations among which the Lord hath dispersed thee. ⁴ Though thy dispersion may have been from one end of the earth to the other, thence the Lord thy God will gather thee, ⁵ and thence the Lord thy God will take thee, and thence thy God will bring thee, into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: And he will deal kindly with thee, and make thee more numerous than thy fathers: ⁶ And the Lord will purify thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, that thou mayst live. ⁷ And the Lord thy God will lay all these curses upon thine enemies, and upon them who hate thee, and have persecuted thee. ⁸ When thou shalt return, and hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and perform these commandments of his, which I this day enjoin thee, ⁹ the Lord thy God will bless thee in every work of thy hands, in the offspring of thy body, and in the increase of thy cattle, and in the products of thy land; for the Lord thy God will turn again to rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers, ¹⁰ if thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God to keep his commandments, and his rules of rectitude, and these judgments of his which are written in this book of the law; if thou wilt turn to the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul.

⁴⁷ and they bethink themselves in the land to which they have been carried captives, and in the land of their captivity repent and pray to thee, saying, We have sinned; we have transgressed; we have committed iniquity; ⁴⁸ and turn to thee with their whole heart, and with their whole soul, in the land of their enemies, to which thou hast transported them; and direct their prayers to thee, toward this land which thou gavest to their fathers, and this city which thou hast chosen, and this house which I have built for thy name;

⁴ yet when they shall turn to the Lord God of Israel, he will be found by them.

⁶ So the expresses went with letters from the king, and the chiefs, to all Israel and Juda, according to the decree of the king, saying, Children of Israel, return to the Lord God of Abraham and Isaak and Israel, and bring back the remnant who have escaped from the hand of the king of Assur. ⁷ And be not like your fathers and your brethren, who apostatised from the Lord God of their fathers, and whom he delivered up to desolation, as you yourselves see. ⁸ Now therefore be not stubborn as your fathers were. Give glory to the Lord God, and come to his sanctuary, which he hath hallowed forever, and serve the Lord your God, and he will turn away his fierce indignation from you. ⁹ For by your turning to the Lord, your brethren and your children will find compassion in the sight of all those who have captivated them; and he will bring them back to this land. For the Lord our God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from us, if we return to him.

²⁸ Yet soon as they had rest, they returned to do evil in thy sight, therefore thou didst leave them in the hand of their enemies, who exercised dominion over them. But again when they cried to thee, thou from heaven didst hearken, and in the multitude of thy tender mercies didst deliver them,

⁶ Therefore turn to him, O children of Israel, who are taking deep and wicked counsel.

⁶ Seek ye the Lord; and when you find him call upon him. And when he draweth near to you; ⁷ let the wicked man forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his counsels, and turn to the Lord and he shall find mercy; for he will abundantly pardon your sins.

¹² go and proclaim these words to the north and thou shalt say, Return to me, house of Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not set my face against you. For I am merciful, saith the Lord and will not be angry with you forever. ¹³ Nevertheless acknowledge thine iniquity; that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and opened thy ways for strangers under every shady tree; and hast not hearkened to my voice, saith the Lord. ¹⁴ Return, O apostate children, saith the Lord: for I will exercise dominion over you, and take one of a city and two of a family and bring you to Sion:

²² Return, return, O children, and I will heal your bruises. [c] Behold we will be thy servants for thou art the Lord our God.

¹ [J] If Israel will return, saith the Lord; let him return to me. And if he will remove his abominations from his mouth, and on account of me be filled with holy awe; and swear"

¹⁵ but after I have driven them out, I will return and have compassion on them, and settle them every one in his inheritance even every one in his own land.

⁵ saying, Turn ye every one from his evil way, and from your wicked pursuits and you shall dwell in this land, which I gave to you and your fathers from age to age.

¹³ then pray to me and I will hearken to you: ¹⁴ then seek me diligently and you shall find me.

¹⁸ I have heard the voice of Ephraim moaning, "Thou hast chastised me and I have been chastised. I like a bullock was uninstructed, bring me back that I may return; for thou art the Lord my God. ¹⁹ For after my captivity I reformed and after I gained knowledge I groaned for my days of shame and shewed thee that I was ashamed of my youth." ²⁰ Ephraim is a beloved son; my darling child; since my words are in him I will surely remember him. For this cause I have been anxious for him, I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.

¹⁵ Though I have sent to you my servants the prophets; saying, Turn ye, every one from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after strange gods to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers; yet you have not inclined your ears nor hearkened.

³⁹ Why should a living man murmur; a man for his sin offering? ⁴⁰ Our way hath been searched and tried; let us then return to the Lord. ⁴¹ Let us offer up our hearts on our hands to Him who is High in heaven.

¹¹ Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked should turn from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your way. Why do you die, house of Israel.

¹ In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, "Come, let us return to the Lord our God, for it is he who hath torn and he can heal us. He can smite, and into our wounds he can pour balm;

¹ [p] Israel, return to the Lord thy God. Seeing they have been weakened for thine iniquities,

⁴ [J] I will heal their habitations. I will undoubtedly love them. Because he hath turned away my wrath from him,

¹² Now therefore saith the Lord your God, turn to me with your whole heart, and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning.

¹⁹ he will turn and have compassion on us: he will bury deep our iniquities: they shall be whelmed in the depths of the sea. ²⁰ All our sins he will give up for truth to Jacob, as an act of mercy to Abraham as he sware to our fathers, according to the days which have been heretofore.

⁷ but you the sons of Jacob do not abstain from the iniquities of your fathers: you have turned aside my statutes and have not kept them: turn to me and I will turn to you, saith the Lord Almighty. Do you say, Wherein shall we turn?

¹⁸ I will rise and go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, ¹⁹ and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. ²⁰ Accordingly he arose and went to his father. But he keeping yet at a distance, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. ²¹ Whereupon the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. ²² But the father said to his servants, Bring out the best robe and put it on him; and put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet.

⁸ Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. ⁹ Be afflicted and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into grief; and your joy into con fusion of face. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he will exalt you. Speak not, brethren, against one another. He who speaketh against a brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh against law, and judgeth law. Now if thou judgest law, thou art not a doer of law, but a judge.

¹⁹ When he had sent prophets to them to turn them to the Lord, and they would not hearken; when he had testified against them and they would not obey; ²⁰ then the Spirit of God came upon Azarias the priest, the son of Jodae, and he stood above the people and said, Thus saith the Lord, Why do you transgress the commandments of the Lord? You cannot prosper. Because you have forsaken the Lord, therefore he will forsake you. ²¹ Upon this they fell upon him and stoned him by the command of the king, in the court of the house of the Lord. ²² Thus Joas remembered not the kindness which Jodae his father had done him, but put to death his son, and when he was dying he said, May the Lord see and judge.

⁶ Because our fathers apostatised, and did evil in the sight of the Lord our God, and forsook him, and turned away their face from the tabernacle of the Lord, and hardened their neck, ⁷ and shut the doors of the temple and extinguished the lamps, and did not burn incense, nor offer whole burnt offerings in this holy place, to the God of Israel; ⁸ therefore the Lord hath been provoked to wrath against Juda and Jerusalem, and hath made them an astonishment and a desolation, and an object of pity, as you see with your eyes. ⁹ For behold your fathers have been smitten with the sword, and your sons and your daughters and your wives, are in captivity, in a strange land, as is now the case. ¹⁰ In this situation of affairs, I have it now at heart to enter into a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that he may turn away his fierce anger from us.

⁷ And be not like your fathers and your brethren, who apostatised from the Lord God of their fathers, and whom he delivered up to desolation, as you yourselves see.

²¹ Go and inquire of the Lord for me, and for all the remnant of Israel and Juda, touching the words of this book which is found; for great must be the wrath of the Lord, which is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened to these words of the Lord, to do according to all that are written in this book.

¹⁵ And the Lord the God of their fathers had sent to them by the ministry of his prophets, rising early, and sending his messengers, because he compassionated his people and his sanctuary. ¹⁶ But they continued to deride his messengers, and to despise his words, and insult his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord ascended against his people; until there was no remedy.

⁷ From the days of our fathers we are in great transgression, even to this day. And for our inquities, we and our kings and our children, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the nations, to the sword and to captivity, and to spoiling, and to confusion of face, as at this day.

¹⁶ But they, even our fathers, behaved proudly and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments.

²⁶ and turned and apostatised from thee, and cast thy law behind their backs: Nay, they slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee; and committed great provocations.

³⁰ and thou hadst borne with them many years, and testified against them by thy Spirit; by the ministry of thy prophets; and they did not give ear, though thou didst deliver them into the hands of the people of the land,

⁸ that they might not be like their fathers; a perverse and rebellious generation; a generation which set not their hearts aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

⁶ We with our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedly. ⁷ Our fathers minded not thy wonders in Egypt, they did not remember the multitude of thy mercies. Though in coming up they were refractory at the Red sea,

¹⁶ Wash and become clean: remove iniquities from your souls; in my presence, cease from your evil deeds; ¹⁷ learn to do good; seek judgment; deliver him who is injured; administer justice to the orphan, and plead the cause of the widow: ¹⁸ then come: [let our controversy be brought to issue, saith the Lord] and though your sins be as a purple stain; I will make you white as snow; though they be as a stain of scarlet; I will make you white as wool. ¹⁹ If you indeed be willing and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land:

⁹ Because this is a rebellious people; lying children, who would not hear the law of God, ¹⁰ who say to the prophets, " Preach not to us, " and to them who see visions, " Speak not to us, nay, speak to us and tell us another error, ¹¹ and turn us from this way, and take from us this path, and take from us the oracle of Israel."

¹² go and proclaim these words to the north and thou shalt say, Return to me, house of Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not set my face against you. For I am merciful, saith the Lord and will not be angry with you forever.

¹⁶ Thus saith the Lord, Stand in the highways and take a view and inquire for the ancient paths of the Lord, and see which is the good way and walk in it, and you shall find a purification for your souls: but they said, "We will not go." ¹⁷ I have set watchmen over you; hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, "We will not listen."

³ thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: amend your ways and your pursuits: and I will cause you to dwell in this place. ⁴ Trust not in yourselves; in lying words: for you will derive no benefit from them who say, "The temple of the Lord! it is the temple of the Lord!" ⁵ For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your pursuits, and actually execute judgment between man and man: ⁶ and do not oppress the stranger and orphan and widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place, nor go after strange gods to your hurt: ⁷ then will I cause you to dwell in this place; [in the land which I gave to your fathers] from age to age.

⁶ Then the Lord said to me, Read these words in the cities of Juda and in the streets of Jerusalem, and say, Hear the words of this covenant and do them. ⁷ [Omitted] ⁸ And when they did not:

⁹ Thus saith the Lord, So will I mar the haughtiness of Juda, and the haughtiness of Jerusalem, that great haughtiness; ¹⁰ them who refuse to hearken to my words, and have gone after strange gods to serve them and worship them: and they shall be like this girdle which is good for nothing.

¹⁶ Give glory to the Lord your God, before the darkness cometh, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains; when you will wait for light; and the shadow of death will be there; and they shall be placed in darkness. ¹⁷ But if you will not hearken, your soul shall weep in secret for your haughtiness; and tears shall gush from your eyes; because the flock of the Lord is destroyed. ¹⁸ [J] Say to the king and the rulers: Humble yourselves and sit on the ground; for from your head is taken your crown of glory.

¹⁹ Thus saith the Lord: Go and stand in the gates of the children of thy people at which the kings of Juda come in and at which they go out, even at all the gates of Jerusalem, ²⁰ and thou shalt say to them, Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Juda and all Juda and all Jerusalem, who enter in by these gates! ²¹ Thus saith the Lord, Take heed to yourselves and carry no burdens on the sabbath day; nor go out of the gates of Jerusalem. ²² Neither carry burdens out of your houses on the sabbath day nor do any work. Hallow the sabbath day as I commanded your fathers. ²³ Though they did not hearken, though they did not incline their ear, but stiffened their necks more than their fathers, that they might not hearken to Me nor receive instruction;

¹¹ Now I have said to the men of Juda and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Behold I am preparing evils against you and forming against you a determination; turn therefore every one from his evil way and make better things the objects of your pursuit:

³ [J] From the thirteenth year of Josias son of Amos king of Juda even to this day, for three and twenty years I have spoken to you rising early and speaking: ⁴ and I have sent to you my servants the prophets; rising early and sending them, though you have not hearkened nor inclined your ears; ⁵ saying, Turn ye every one from his evil way, and from your wicked pursuits and you shall dwell in this land, which I gave to you and your fathers from age to age. ⁶ Go not after strange gods to serve them, and worship them, that you may not provoke me by the works of your hands to bring evils upon you. ⁷ But you hearkened not to me.

⁵ and hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, whom I, rising early, have sent to you, though you have not hearkened to them;

² Take thee a roll of a book and write therein all the words which I have spoken to thee against Jerusalem and against Juda and against all the nations from the day I first spoke to thee; from the days of Josias king of Juda even to this day. ³ Perhaps the house of Juda will hear all the evils which I purpose to do to them, that they may turn from their evil way and that I may be merciful to their iniquities and their sins. ⁴ Thereupon Jeremias sent for Baruch, son of Nerias, and he wrote in a book, from the mouth of Jeremias, all the words which the Lord had spoken to him. ⁵ Then Jeremias gave a charge to Baruch, saying, I am watched so that I cannot go to the house of the Lord; ⁶ therefore thou shalt read from this roll in the hearing of the people in the house of the Lord on the fast day, even in the hearing: of all Juda who come from their cities thou shalt read to them. ⁷ Perhaps they may find favour in the sight of the Lord and turn from their evil way, for great is the wrath and the anger of the Lord which he hath denounced against this people. ⁸ So Baruch did according to all that Jeremias commanded him, that he might read from the book the words of the Lord in the house of the Lord. ⁹ And it came to pass that in the eighth year of the reign of Joakim, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and the house of Juda kept a solemn fast before the Lord. ¹⁰ And Baruch read from the book the words of Jeremias in the house of the Lord in the house of Gamarias son of Saphan the scribe, in the upper court at the vestibule of the new gate of the house of the Lord and in the hearing of all the people.

²³ So as Judin read three or four folds, he cut them off with the secretary's knife and4 threw them into the fire in the grate, till the whole roll was consumed in the fire. ²⁴ But neither the king nor his servants, who heard all these words, made any inquiry nor rent their clothes.

⁴ Though I sent to you my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Do not commit this abominable thing which I hate; ⁵ yet they hearkened not to me, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness so as not to burn incense to strange gods.

¹⁶ In regard to this word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord,

⁷ But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee, since they are not willing to hearken to me. Because all the house of Israel are contentious and stubborn, ⁸ therefore behold I have made thy face strong against their faces, and I will invigorate thy struggle against their struggling ⁹ and it shall be on all occasions firmer than a rock. Be not afraid of them nor daunted at their countenance, because they are a provoking house.

¹⁴ But if he beget a son who hath seen all the sins which his father committed and hath been struck with awe and not done the like; ¹⁵ hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor fixed his eyes on the desires of the house of Israel; nor defiled his neighbour's wife, ¹⁶ nor oppressed any man, nor taken a pledge; nor been guilty of rapine; hath dealt out his bread to the hungry and clothed the naked, ¹⁷ and turned away his hand from injustice; hath neither lent on interest nor taken usury; hath practised justice and walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquities of his father. He shall live.

³⁰ I will judge you, saith the Lord, house of Israel, every one according to his way. Be converted and turn from all your acts of wickedness, and they shall not bring upon you the punishment of iniquity. ³¹ Cast away from you all your impious acts; which you have impiously committed against me; and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: now why do you die, house of Israel, ³² since I desire not the death of him who dieth? saith the Lord.

¹³ therefore the prudent will at that time be silent because it is the time of wicked men. ¹⁴ Seek good and not evil that you may live, and so the Lord God Almighty will be with you. As you have said, ¹⁵ We have hated evil and loved good; therefore reestablish judgment in the gates, that the Lord God Almighty may have compassion on the remnant of Joseph.

²⁴ but let judgment roll down like water, and righteousness like an impassable torrent.

⁶ Weep not bitterly, nor let tears be shed for these things, for reproaches will not be cast oft even by him who saith,

³ therefore thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Turn to me, saith the Lord of Hosts and4 I will turn to you saith the Lord of Hosts.

¹¹ but they refused to attend and turned back contemptuously; and stopped their ears that they might not hear; ¹² and made their heart disobedient that they might not hearken to my law; therefore [according to the words which the Lord Almighty by his spirit sent by the ministry of the former prophets] there was great wrath from the Lord Almighty; ¹³ that it might come to pass as he said, "As they hearkened not, so they shall cry and I will not listen, saith the Lord Almighty,

⁸ Produce therefore fruits worthy of this reformation, ⁹ and presume not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father! For I say to you, God is able out of these stones to raise up children for Abraham. ¹⁰ Now the axe is at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore which doth not produce good fruit is to be cut down and cast into the fire.

¹⁹ Repent therefore and return, that your sins may be blotted out, that seasons of refreshment may come from the presence of the Lord;

⁵¹ O stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears Ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do ye. ⁵² Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? Indeed they have slain them who prophesied concerning the coming of that Righteous one, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers:

²⁰ but made proclamation first to them at Damascus, then at Jerusalem and throughout all the country of Judea, and to the nations, to reform and turn to God, performing works worthy of the change of mind.

¹⁵ [from those indeed who slew the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and persecuted us, and who please not God, and are in opposition to all men, ¹⁶ hindering us from speaking to the nations that they may be saved; thus, filling up the measure of their sins continually: but the wrath is at last coming upon them,]

¹⁸ knowing that from that vain course of life, handed down to you from your fathers, you have been redeemed not with perishable things such as silver and gold,

¹⁰ But when a man dieth he is gone: when a mortal falleth, he is no more. ¹¹ For in a course of time a sea is spent; and a river when unsupplied is dried up: ¹² and man when composed in the grave cannot rise again; until the heaven be folded up; they shall not be awakened from their sleep.

¹⁰ The days of these years of ours are seventy years: and if by reason of strength they be eighty years; still the surplus of them is labour and sorrow. Because gentleness hath come upon us: let us, therefore,

⁴ One generation passeth away and another cometh. But the earth hath continually kept its station.

¹ As the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God, man indeed knoweth not what to love or what to hate: with regard to all things before him there is vanity in them all. ² The same event happeneth to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; to the clean and to the unclean; to him who sacrificeth and to him who sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; as is he who sweareth, so is he who feareth the oath. ³ There is this evil in every thing done under the sun, that one event happeneth to them all, so that the heart of the children of men being filled with evil there is an instability in their heart during their life, and it followeth them to the dead.

⁵ and they will look up to the height and there are terrors in the way. Though the almond tree shall have bloomed and the locust hath been fattened and the caper bush is shed, because the man is gone to his long home, therefore the mourners have made a circuit in the market place.

⁷ and dust return to dust as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it;

⁵² Thereupon the Jews said to him, Now we know that thou art possessed by a demon. Abraham is dead and the prophets; yet thou sayest, I any one keep this doctrine of mine, he shall never taste death.

³⁶ For David indeed, having in his generation answered the purpose of God, went to rest and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption;

²³ Again, with regard to them, many were made priests, because death prevented a continuance: 24 but He, because of his continuing forever, hath a priesthood which doth not pass from one to another.

²⁷ And as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that there is a judgment;

² that you may remember the predictions of the holy prophets, and the injunction of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour; ³ knowing this first, that in the last day scoffers will come, walking after their own desires, ⁴ and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."

¹⁹ God is not like a man to be deceived; Nor like a son of man to be threatened. When he hath spoken, will he not perform? When he shall speak, will he not stand to it?

²³ But if you do not act in this manner, you will sin against the Lord, and you shall be sensible of your sin, when evils overtake you.

⁵⁶ And it will come to pass that I will deal with you as I determined to deal with them.

¹⁵ But in case thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God to keep all his commandments which I this day give thee in charge, all these evils shall come upon thee and overtake thee:

²⁰ The Lord send upon thee want, and famine, and destruction on all the labour of thy hands, until he utterly root thee out, and until he destroy thee quickly, on the account of thy wicked devices. Seeing thou hast forsaken me,

⁴⁵ All these curses shall actually come upon thee, and pursue thee, and overtake thee, until he root thee out, and utterly destroy thee because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments, and his rules of rectitude, which he commanded thee,

¹⁷ Therefore he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, and had no compassion on Sedekias, nor pity for their virgins. And they carried away their elders. He delivered all into their hands; ¹⁸ all the utensils of the house of God, great and small, and all the treasures of the house of the Lord and all the treasures of the king and of the nobles. All these he carried to Babylon. ¹⁹ And he burned the house of the Lord, and demolished the wall of Jerusalem, and burned with fire the palaces thereof, and utterly destroyed every thing that was beautiful, ²⁰ and removed to Babylon the few who were left; and they continued to be servants to him and his sons, until the reign of the Medes; ²¹ that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, That until the land received its sabbaths which it ought to have rested, it should keep a sabbath all the days of its desolation, to the completion of seventy years.

²⁹ Sit down I pray you, and let there be no more reproaches. Indeed you again meet a righteous man.

⁸ Because Jerusalem is forsaken and Judea is fallen therefore their tongues concur with their transgression. They disbelieve the things relating to the Lord. ⁹ Because their glory is now humbled; and the shame of their countenance is risen up against them: their sin therefore, like the Sodomites, they proclaimed and openly avowed. ¹⁰ Alas for their souls! Because they have counselled an evil counsel against themselves, saying, "Let us bind the just one, for he is disagreeable to us;" let them therefore eat the fruits of their deeds. ¹¹ Alas for the wicked! according to the works of his hands evils shall befal him. my people!

²⁶ but establisheth the word of his servant, and verifieth the counsel of his messengers; who saith to Jerusalem, "Thou shalt be inhabited;" and to the cities of Idumea, "Ye shall be re builded, and in its deserts vegetation shall spring up:"

¹ HO! ye who are thirsting, come to water! And ye who have no money, come buy and eat, without money and without price, wine and the choicest bread.

⁴ be circumcised for your God and circumcise the stubbornness of your hearts, O men of Juda and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath break out like a fire and burn; and there be none to quench it, because of the wickedness of your devices.

¹⁶ And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the way of my people to swear by my name, "As the Lord liveth" as they taught my people to swear by Baal; ¹⁷ they shall be established among my people: but if they will not return; I will assuredly root out that nation with ruin and destruction.

⁸ if that nation turn from all their evils, I will relent in respect to the evils which I was resolving to bring on them. ⁹ And when I speak to a nation and kingdom that I will build up and replant: ¹⁰ If they do evil in my sight so as not to hearken to my voice, I indeed will alter my mind in respect to the good things which I spoke of doing for them. ¹¹ Now I have said to the men of Juda and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Behold I am preparing evils against you and forming against you a determination; turn therefore every one from his evil way and make better things the objects of your pursuit:

²⁰ and from the purpose of his heart the wrath of the Lord will not turn away; until it hath executed it; and until he hath established it. In the last of these days they shall perceive this.

¹⁵ But be assured that if you put me to death, you bring innocent blood on yourselves and upon this city and upon the inhabitants thereof. For in truth, the Lord hath sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.

²⁸ They indeed who have escaped from the sword being few in number, shall return to the land of Juda; but the remnant of Juda, who have staid in the land of Egypt to settle there, shall know whose word shall stand.

¹⁸ [s] The Lord is righteous; for against his express commandment I rebelled. Hear I beseech you all ye peoples and behold my sorrow! my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

¹⁷ The Lord hath done what he purposed. He hath executed his decree, what he enjoined in days of old. He hath destroyed and hath not spared. He hath caused an enemy to rejoice over thee. He hath exalted the horn of thine oppressor.

¹¹ The Lord hath executed his wrath; he hath poured out his fierce anger. He hath kindled a fire in Sion, which hath devoured her very foundations. ¹² The kings of the earth; all the inhabitants of the world did not believe that an enemy and a destroyer could have entered the gates of Jerusalem.

²⁵ for I the Lord will speak my words; I will speak and perform, and no more put off to a distant time; for in these your days, rebellious house, I will speak a word and perform it, saith the Lord. ²⁶ Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²⁷ Son of man, behold the house of Israel, that rebellious house, speak saying, The vision which this man seeth is for many days; and for times far distant he prophesieth; ²⁸ therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord, None of my words which I speak shall any more be prolonged. I will speak and I will perform saith the Lord.

⁴³ and you will there remember your ways and your devices with which you have been polluted, and express contrition for all your acts of wickedness;

¹¹ Then the Lord spoke to me saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Now they say, "Our bones are become dry. Our hope is gone. We are wasted to a shadow."

⁶ for this behold I will hedge up her way with thorns; and block up her ways that she may not find her path. ⁷ Though she follow her lovers she shall not overtake them; though she seek them, she shall not find them. Then she will say, "I will go and return to my former husband, for it was then better with me than now. ⁸ She indeed did not acknowledge that I gave her the corn and wine and oil; and multiplied silver for her: but she made ornaments of gold and silver for Baal: ⁹ therefore I will turn and take away my corn in its season, and my wine in its appointed time; and I will take away my garments and my fine linens, that she may not cover her nakedness: ¹⁰ and I will now disclose her impurity before her lovers; and none shall deliver her out of my hand. ¹¹ I will indeed turn away all her pleasures, her festivals, and her new moons and her sabbaths and all her solemn assemblies.

¹⁵ All their wickedness was occasioned by Galgal; because I hated them there on account of the wickedness of their devices, I will drive them out of my house; I will no longer continue to love them. All their chiefs are become rebellious.

¹⁰ By the sword all the sinners of my people shall die, who say, These evils shall not come near nor fall upon us.

¹⁸ And when you shall be converted, you shall see the difference between a righteous man and one who is unrighteous; and between him who serveth God and him who serveth not.

³⁵ The heaven and the earth shall fail; but my words shall not fail.

⁴ But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that this day should break upon you at unawares as a thief.

¹ In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zacharias the Barachite, the son of Addo, the prophet, saying,

³ And Abimelech the king of the Gerarites sent and took Sarah. And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said, Behold thou diest for this woman, whom thou hast taken; for she is the man's wife.

¹³ Now when Joshua was by Jericho, he raised his eyes, and saw a man standing before him, with a drawn sword in his hand, upon which Joshua, advancing, said to him, Art thou one of us or of our enemies?

⁵ the Lord appeared to him that night in a dream, and said to him, Ask for thyself any favour.

¹³ Should not my ear receive unusual things coming from him? At a dreadful sound by night, when terror appalleth men,

³ Gird thy sword on thy thigh, thou Mighty! To thy comeliness and thy beauty give energy, ⁴ and prosper and reign, for truth, meekness and justice's sake; and let thine own right hand marvellously conduct thee.

¹⁶ My dear brother is mine and I am his: he is feeding among the lillies.

² My dear brother went down to his garden to the beds of o spices; to feed in the garden and to gather lillies.

¹⁹ And I will plant in the dry wilderness the cedar and box, the myrtle and cypress and elm:

¹³ And instead of the briar, shall spring up the cypress; and instead of the thistle, shall come up the myrtle. And the Lord shall be for a name, and for an everlasting sign which shall not fail.

¹⁵ Thus saith the Most High, who on earth inhabiteth eternity, who is Holy among holies; whose name is THE MOST HIGH; who at rest in the holies giveth patience to the humble, and life to them who are of a contrite heart;

¹ [c] Who is this who is coming from Edom? What redness of mantles from Bosor! He so magnificent in apparel? He marcheth with majesty! [M] I proclaim righteousness and the judgment of salvation. ² [c] Why are thy garments red and thy clothing, as from a trodden wine vat? ³ [M] I am full of a country trodden down; and of the nations there is not a man with me. I have trodden them down in my wrath, and crumbled them like dust and shed their blood on the earth. ⁴ For the day of retribution came upon them and the year of redemption is at hand.

¹⁹ and the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night; whereupon he blessed the God of heaven, and said,

² I Daniel beheld, and lo! the four winds of heaven blew violently on the great sea;

¹³ And I beheld in the vision of the night, and lo! with the clouds of heaven one like a son of man coming! And he advanced to the Ancient of days and was introduced to him.

² In the first chariot were red horses, and in the second chariot black horses, ³ and in the third chariot white horses, and in the fourth chariot bay spotted horses. ⁴ Whereupon addressing the angel who was speaking with me, I said, Lord, what are these? ⁵ And the angel who was talking with me answered and said, These are the four winds of heaven. They are going out to wait on the Lord of the whole earth. ⁶ That in which were the black horses went out to the land of the north; and the white went out after them; and the spotted went out to the land of the south; ⁷ and the bay went out and looked with an intent to go round this land: and he said, Go and scour round this land. And when they had scoured round this land

⁷ Awake, sword, against my shepherds, and against my chief citizen, saith the Lord Almighty; I will smite the shepherds and the sheep shall be scattered and I will bring my hand on the little ones.

¹ To the angel of the congregation at Ephesus write, "Thus saith he who holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks,

⁴ And there went forth another horse of a fiery colour, and to him mounted thereon it was given to take peace from the earth and that men might slay one another; and a great sword was given him.

¹⁹ And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to come to a battle with him who was mounted on the horse and with his army. ²⁰ And the beast was taken and with him the false prophet who did these signs before him by which he led astray them who had received the mark of the beast, and them who worshipped his image. Both these were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone; ²¹ and the rest were slain with the sword of him who was mounted on the horse; with that which issueth out of his mouth; and all the birds were glutted with their flesh.

¹¹ Moreover an angel of God said to me in a dream, Jacob! And I said, What is the matter.

¹⁶ And I went to one of them in waiting and made diligent inquiry to learn of him concerning all these things and he gave me exact information and explained to me the meaning of these things.

¹⁵ And when I Daniel had seen the vision and sought the meaning, then lo! there stood before me an appearance like that of a man. ¹⁶ And I heard a voice of a man amidst the Oubal and it called and said, "Gabriel, instruct him respecting the vision."

²² and instructed me and conversed with me and said, Daniel, I am now come to teach thee knowledge. ²³ At the beginning of thy supplication a word went forth, and I am come to tell thee; for thou art a man greatly beloved. Be instructed therefore by the decree, and understand by the vision.

¹¹ And he said to me, Daniel, man greatly beloved, gain knowledge by the words which I speak to thee and stand up; for I am now sent to thee. And when he said this to me I stood up trembling. ¹² Then he said to me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thy heart to gain knowledge and afflict thyself before the Lord thy God, thy words were heard, and I came at thy words; ¹³ but the chief of the kingdom of the Persians stood in my way twenty one days, when lo! Michael the first of the chiefs came to help me, and I left him there with the chief of the kingdom of the Persians, ¹⁴ and am come to teach thee what will befal thy people in the last days. Because this vision is for days to come.

¹⁹ and I said to the angel who was talking with me, Lord, what are these? And he said to me, These are the horns which have scattered Juda and Israel and Jerusalem.

³ Now behold the angel who had been talking with me had stopped; and another angel came out to meet him

⁴ Then I inquired and spoke to the angel who was talking with me, and said, Lord what are these? ⁵ And the angel who was talking with me, answered and said to me, Dost thou not know what these are? When I said, No, lord.

¹¹ Then I answered and said to him, What are those two olive trees which are on the right and left of the candlestick?

⁵ Then the angel who was talking with me went out and said to me, Look up with thine eyes and see this which is going out.

⁴ Whereupon addressing the angel who was speaking with me, I said, Lord, what are these? ⁵ And the angel who was talking with me answered and said, These are the four winds of heaven. They are going out to wait on the Lord of the whole earth.

¹³ 'Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, "Who are these who are clad in white robes? and whence came they?" ¹⁴ And I said to him, "Sir, thou knowest" Then he said to me, "These are they who have come out of great affliction and have washed their robes and made them white by the blood of the Lamb.

¹ Then one of the seven angels who had the seven vials came to me and talked with me, saying to me, Come let me shew thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth on the many waters, ² with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. ³ And he carried me away in spirit to a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast full of blasphemous names, which had seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman was clad in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls; and she had in her hand a golden cup full of the abominations and impurity of her fornication; ⁵ and on her forehead there was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, the mother of the harlots and the abominations of the earth. ⁶ And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and when I saw her I expressed my astonishment with great amaze. ⁷ And the angel said to me, Why art thou amazed? I will tell thee the mystery of this woman and of the beast which carrieth her, which hath seven heads and ten horns.

⁹ Then [the angel] saith to me, Write, Happy they who are invited to the marriage supper of the lamb! then he saith to me, These are the true words of God. ¹⁰ Whereupon I fell down at his feet to worship him. And he saith to me, See thou do not. I am the fellow servant of thee and of thy brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God. For the spirit of this prophecy is the testimony of Jesus.

⁸ Now, I John saw and heard these things. And when I had heard and seen I prostrated myself to worship at the feet of the angel who pointed them out to me; ⁹ and he saith to me, See thou do not: I am a fellow servant of thee and of thy brethren the prophets and of them who keep the words of this book: Worship God. ¹⁰ Then he saith to me, seal not up the words of the prophecy of this book for the time is near. ¹¹ Let him who is unjust be unjust still and him who is polluted be polluted still; and let the just be still just and the holy still holy. ¹² Now behold I am coming quickly and my reward is with me to render to every one as his work shall be. ¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega: the beginning and the end; the first and the last. ¹⁴ Happy they who perform his commandments that they may have access to the tree of life and enter by the gates into the city: ¹⁵ but without are the dogs and the sorcerers and the prostitutes and the murderers and the idolaters and every one who loveth and practiseth falsehood. ¹⁶ I Jesus have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the congregations. I am the root and the offspring of David; the bright and the morning star.

²⁴ and Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him till the morning. ²⁵ And when he saw that he could not prevail against him he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh became numb, in wrestling with him. ²⁶ And he said to him, Let me go: for the dawn approached. But Jacob said I will not let thee go unless thou bless me. ²⁷ And he said to him what is thy name? to which he replied, Jacob. ²⁸ Thereupon he said to him, Thy name shall no more be Jacob only, but Israel also shall be thy name. Since thou hast been enabled to prevail with God, therefore with men thou shalt be mighty. ²⁹ Then Jacob asked him saying, Tell me thy name. And he said why dost thou ask my name? Then he blessed him there. ³⁰ And Jacob called the name of that place, Face of God: for I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved. ³¹ Now the sun was risen when he departed from Face of God: and he limped with his thigh.

⁷ and the Lord said to Satan, Whence comest thou? And Satan in reply said to the Lord, Having gone round the earth, and roved the whole of it under heaven, I am come here.

¹ Again on the day when the angels of God came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord. ² And the Lord said to Satan, Whence comest thou? And Satan said before the Lord, Having traversed that under heaven, and roved through the whole of it, I am come here

²⁰ Bless the Lord, all ye his angels; ye mighty powers, who execute his word, on hearing the voice of his commands. ²¹ Bless the Lord, all ye his armies: ye ministers of his, who perform his will.

⁵ and a splendor in it. And in the middle, a resemblance like that of four living beings. And this was the appearance of them. They had a resemblance of a man in them. ⁶ And each had four faces, and each had four wings; and their legs were straight ⁷ and their feet winged and sparking like sparkling brass. And their wings had a quick motion. ⁸ And underneath their wings on their four sides was a man's hand. ⁹ And the faces of the four turned not when they went. They marched forward each having a face on every side. ¹⁰ And with regard to the similitude of their faces, the four had the face of a man with the face of a lion, on the right; and on the left the four had the face of a bullock, and the four had a face of an eagle. ¹¹ And the wings of the four were expanded upwards, each having a pair expanded adjoining each other and a pair folded on their body. ¹² And they moved on, each straight forward, which way soever the wind was moving, they moved on, and turned not. ¹³ And in the midst of the four living beings, was an appearance like that of glowing coals of fire, resembling lamps whirling round between the ¹⁴ living beings with a splendor of fire, and from the fire lightnings flashed.

³ In the womb Jacob kicked his brother, but in his troubles he wrestled with God. ⁴ He indeed wrestled with an angel and prevailed. Have they wept or have they supplicated me? Have they found me in the house of On? Or have they been spoken to there? ⁵ The Lord God Almighty was to be his memorial:

⁸ [I had been viewing the night and lo! a man mounted on a red horse, and he stood between the shady mountains, and behind him were horses, red and ash coloured, and dappled and white.

¹¹ Then they addressed the angel of the Lord who stood between the mountains, and said. We have gone round all this land, and lo all the land is inhabited, and quiet.

¹⁰ since a certain person hath despised these as small days,] that those seven eyes will be gladdened, when they shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zorobabel; they are the eyes which survey the whole earth.

⁵ And the angel who was talking with me answered and said, These are the four winds of heaven. They are going out to wait on the Lord of the whole earth. ⁶ That in which were the black horses went out to the land of the north; and the white went out after them; and the spotted went out to the land of the south; ⁷ and the bay went out and looked with an intent to go round this land: and he said, Go and scour round this land. And when they had scoured round this land ⁸ he cried aloud and spoke to me, saying, Behold they who went to the land of the north have appeased my wrath in the land of the north.

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth on service on the account of them who are to be heirs of salvation?

¹⁷ The chariots of God are innumerable: there are thousands of happy attendants. The Lord was among them at Sina,

⁷ the whole earth shouteth for joy;

²⁰ Then he said, that thou knewest that for which I came to thee, then would I return to fight for the chief of the Persians, for as I was coming, the chief of the Grecians came.

¹⁰ Then the man who stood between the mountains, addressing me said, These are they whom the Lord sent to go round this land.

¹⁵ and with great wrath I am angry with the nations who were set on. Because I was indeed a little displeased, but they were bent on mischief;

⁷ and the bay went out and looked with an intent to go round this land: and he said, Go and scour round this land. And when they had scoured round this land

⁴¹ The son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all the stumbling blocks, and the workers of iniquity,

⁴⁹ So shall it be at the conclusion of this age. The angels will go forth and sever the wicked from among the righteous

³⁰ And then, all the tribes of the land will mourn: and they shall see the son of man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. ³¹ And he will send out his messengers with a loud sounding trumpet, and they will gather his chosen ones from the four winds; from one extremity of heaven to the other.

³¹ So when the son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him; he will then sit on the throne of his glory.

³ For whilst they are saying, there is peace and safety, sudden destruction is then upon them, like the pangs of a woman in travail, and they cannot escape.

⁷ and to you who are afflicted, rest with us at the manifestation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels,

¹ A REVELATION of Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to shew to his servants things which must shortly come to pass, and which he sent by his angel, and signified to his servant John,

²⁰ Now behold I send my angel before thy face, that he may guard thee in the way, and bring thee to the land, which I have prepared for thee. ²¹ Take heed to thyself and hearken to him and disobey him not; for he should not withdraw from you; for my name is upon him. ²² If you will hearken diligently to this voice of mine, and do whatever I command thee, and keep my covenant, you shall be to me a peculiar people above all the nations; for the whole earth is mine, but you shall be to me a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words you shall deliver to the children of Israel; If you will hearken diligently to my voice, and do all that I command thee, I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and an adversary to thy adversaries; ²³ For my angel shall go before thee as thy leader, and conduct thee to the Amorite and the Chettite and the Pherezite and the Chananite and the Gergasite and the Evite and the Jebusite, and I will exterminate them.

²¹ that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, That until the land received its sabbaths which it ought to have rested, it should keep a sabbath all the days of its desolation, to the completion of seventy years.

⁵ Thou, O God, knowest my folly; and my trespasses are not hid from thee.

¹⁰ How long O God, shall the enemy reproach? Shall the adversary blaspheme thy name forever?

¹³ Thou wilt arise and have mercy on Sion: for the time to favour her; the set time is come.

⁹ It was not an ambassador nor a messenger; but he himself saved them. Through his love and his indulgence to them, he himself redeemed them and took them up, and exalted them all the days of old.

⁹ be not angry with us to the uttermost; nor remember forever our sins: but, O, look down now upon us; for we are all thy people. ¹⁰ The city of thy sanctuary is become a desert: Sion is become like a desert; Jerusalem, for a curse. ¹¹ The house, our sanctuary; even that glory which our fathers blessed, is utterly burnt up with fire, and all our glorious things are in ruins; ¹² yet for all these things, thou, Lord, hast refrained, and been silent. Thou hast humbled us exceedingly.

¹¹ And the whole country shall be a desolation. And they shall be slaves among the nations seventy years. ¹² And when the seventy years are compleated I will execute vengeance on that nation, and make them an everlasting desolation.

¹⁰ For thus said the Lord, When seventy years shall be accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you and establish my words for you by bringing back your people to this place.

² I Daniel understood by the books that the number of the years, which was a word of the Lord to Jeremias the prophet, for the accomplishment of the desolation of Jerusalem, was seventy years.

¹⁰ Then the man who stood between the mountains, addressing me said, These are they whom the Lord sent to go round this land. ¹¹ Then they addressed the angel of the Lord who stood between the mountains, and said. We have gone round all this land, and lo all the land is inhabited, and quiet.

⁵ Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, Though you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, lo! for seventy years; did you keep a fast for me?

²⁵ So that he is completely able to save them, who come to God by him, as he is ever alive to intercede for them.

¹⁰ And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O sovereign, the holy one and the true, dost thou defer judging and avenging our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?"

¹ Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith God: ² priests, speak to the understanding of Jerusalem; comfort her; for her humiliation is accomplished; her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received from the hand of the Lord [blessings] double to the punishment of her sins.

¹⁰ [Omitted] ¹¹ [Omitted] ¹² Thus said the Lord, I raised up affliction; thy wound was grievous; ¹³ there is none to plead thy cause; the attempts to cure thee increased thy pain; there is no relief for thee; ¹⁴ all thy friends forgot thee; they would make no inquiry for thee; because I inflicted on thee the wound of an enemy, a severe chastisement for all thine iniquity; thy sins had multiplied: ¹⁵ [Omitted] ¹⁶ therefore all that devour thee shall be devoured, and all thine enemies shall eat their own flesh. For the multitude of thine iniquities [thy sins indeed were multiplied] they have done all these things to thee; but they who plunder thee shall be for plunder; and all who have preyed upon thee, I will give for a prey. ¹⁷ Because I will bring up the cure for thee I will cure thee, saith the Lord, of thy painful wound; because thou wast called the Outcast, the hunt is up after thee; because there is none who seeketh this outcast, ¹⁸ thus saith the Lord, Behold I myself will bring back the outcast of Jacob, and his captivity I will compassionate. And the city shall be rebuilt on its height; and the people shall sit for the administration of justice. ¹⁹ And from them shall come forth singers; the sound of the sportive; and I will multiply them and they shall not be diminished. ²⁰ And their sons shall come in as in former times; and their judicatories shall be established in my presence. And I will punish them who afflict them. ²¹ His own mighties shall preside over them; and from him his own chief shall come forth; and he will gather them that they may return to me" that he who hath given his heart, whoever he is, may return to me, saith the Lord. ²² [Omitted]

³ The Lord from afar hath appeared for him: with everlasting love I have loved thee; therefore I have drawn thee into compassion. ⁴ For I will rebuild thee, and thou shalt be rebuilt. virgin of Israel, again thou shalt take thy timbrel, and go forth with a congregation of rejoicers. ⁵ As you have planted vineyards on the mountains of Samaria, plant and sing praises; ⁶ for there shall be a day of invitation to them who make apologies on the mountains of Ephraim, "Arise and go up to Sion to the Lord your God." ⁷ For thus said the Lord to Jacob, Rejoice and shout at the head of nations; issue proclamations and sing praises; say, "The Lord hath saved his people, the remnant of Israel." ⁸ Behold I will bring them from the north and gather them from the extremity of the earth. At the festival of Phasek he shall have a multitude of children who shall return hither. ⁹ They set out with weeping; but I will bring them up with consolation, causing them to rest at fountains of water in a straight road; and in it they shall not be led astray, for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first born. ¹⁰ Hear the words of the Lord, ye nations! and proclaim them to the far distant isles. Say, He, who scattered Israel, will gather them, and guard them as a shepherd doth his flock. ¹¹ Because the Lord hath redeemed Jacob; hath rescued him out of the hand of them who were stronger than he; ¹² therefore they shall come and rejoice on mount Sion. They shall indeed come to the good things of the Lord; to a land of corn and wine, and of fruits and herds and flocks; and their soul shall be like a fruitful tree; and they shall no more be hungry. ¹³ Then shall virgins rejoice in the assembly of youths; the elders also shall be filled with joy; for I will turn their mourning into joy and make them glad. ¹⁴ I will enlarge and satisfy the soul of the priests the sons of Levi. And my people shall be regaled with my good things. Thus said the Lord,

¹¹ In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David which hath fallen; I will rebuild those parts of it which have fallen to decay, and repair what have been demolished. I will indeed rebuild it as in the days of old, ¹² that the rest of mankind may seek [the Lord] even all the nations who are called by my name, saith the Lord who doth all these things. ¹³ Behold the days are coming, saith the Lord, When the harvester shall overtake the grape gatherer; and the grape shall begin to ripen at seeding time; and the mountains shall distil sweet wine; and all the hills shall be planted. ¹⁴ And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel; and they shall rebuild the wasted cities and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine thereof; and make gardens and eat the fruits of them. ¹⁵ I will indeed plant them in their own land; and they shall no more be rooted up from the land, which I have given them, saith the Lord God Almighty.

¹⁴ Rejoice, daughters of Sion, Make proclamation, daughters of Jerusalem! Be glad and rejoice with thy whole heart, daughter of Jerusalem. ¹⁵ The Lord hath taken away thy transgressions; he hath redeemed thee out of the hand of thine enemies. The king of Israel; the Lord is in the midst of thee; thou shalt no more see evils. ¹⁶ At that time the Lord will say to Jerusalem, " Take courage, Sion. Let not thy hands hang down. ¹⁷ The Lord thy God is with thee. The Mighty one will save thee. He will bring thee gladness and renew thee in his love; and rejoice over thee with joy as in the day of a festival; ¹⁸ when I have gathered those of you who have been bruised." [J] Ha! who is this that hath taken up a reproach against her? ¹⁹ Behold here am I; I am dealing with thee for thy sake at that time, saith the Lord, and I will save her who hath been trodden down; and take back her who hath been put away; and I will make them a boast and renowned in every land. ²⁰ And they shall be ashamed at that time when I deal kindly with you. Even at the time when I take you back. For I will make you renowned and a boast among all the people of the earth, when I bring back your captivity before their eyes, saith the Lord.

⁹ And I said, Lord what are these: and the angel who was talking with me said to me, I will shew thee what these are.

¹⁴ Whereupon the angel who had been talking with me said to me; He cried with a loud voice saying: Thus saith the Lord Almighty, I have been jealous of Jerusalem and Sion with great jealousy: ¹⁵ and with great wrath I am angry with the nations who were set on. Because I was indeed a little displeased, but they were bent on mischief; ¹⁶ therefore thus saith the Lord, I will turn to Jerusalem, with compassion and my house shall be rebuilded in it, saith the Lord Almighty, and a line shall be stretched on Jerusalem.

⁴ and spoke to him saying, "Run and speak to that young man and say, "Jerusalem shall be crouded with inhabitants by reason of the multitude of men and cattle therein. ⁵ And I will be to her, saith the Lord, a wall of fire around; and I will be a glory in the midst of her. ⁶ flee! flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord, for from the four winds of heaven I will gather you, saith the Lord. ⁷ To Sion make your escape, ye who inhabit the daughter of Babylon! ⁸ for thus saith the Lord Almighty. He behind glory hath sent me against the nations which plundered you: for he who toucheth you, is like one touching the apple of his eye. ⁹ For behold I am bringing my hand upon them; and they shall be spoils for them who were their vassals: and you shall know that the Lord Almighty hath sent me. ¹⁰ Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Sion! for lo! I am coming; and I will dwell amidst thee, saith the Lord; ¹¹ and many nations will flee to the Lord in that day, and be his people and dwell in the midst of thee; and thou shalt know that the Lord Almighty hath sent me to thee. ¹² And the Lord will settle Juda in his portion, in the holy land; and will again make choice of Jerusalem.

¹ Then the angel who talked with me turned and roused me, as when a man is roused from his sleep,

² Thus saith the Lord Almighty, I have had a great jealousy of Jerusalem and Sion, and with great wrath I have been jealous of her. ³ But thus saith the Lord, I will return to Sion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the Lord Almighty, a holy mountain. ⁴ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Again old men and matrons shall sit in the streets of Jerusalem, every one with his staff in his hand, for multitude of days; ⁵ and the streets of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in her streets. ⁶ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, If this shall appear impossible in the view of the remnant of this people in these clays; shall it also be impossible in my view, saith the Lord Almighty? ⁷ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Behold I will save my people from the land of the east and from the land of the west. ⁸ And I will gather them and dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people and I will be their God in truth and in righteousness.

¹⁹ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, The fourth fast, and the fifth fast, and the seventh fast, and the tenth fast shall be to the house of Juda for joy and gladness and for cheerful festivals, and ye shall rejoice. Therefore love truth and peace.

⁷ His government shall be great and to his peace there is no boundary, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to reestablish it, and support it with judgment and justice, henceforth and forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

²² Whereupon Ezekias said, Let this be a sign to Ezekias, that I shall go up to the house of God.

¹ Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith God:

⁶ A voice of one saying, Proclaim. "Wherefore I said, What shall I proclaim? "All flesh is grass; and all the glory of man as a flower of grass.

¹³ The Lord God of Hosts will come forth and tread down battle; he will rouse up his zeal, and shout against his enemies with majesty.

¹⁷ And he put on righteousness as a breast plate, and placed on his head the helmet of salvation, and threw around him the mantle of vengeance; and his cloak,

¹⁵ Return from heaven and take a view from the house of thy sanctuary and thy glory. Where is thy zeal and thy majesty? Where the abundance of thy loving kindness and tender affections, that thou hast withdrawn thyself from us?

⁸ [J] What shall I do with thee, Ephraim? Shall I shield thee, Israel? What must I do with thee? Shall I make thee as Adama and as Seboim? My heart relenteth for him. My compassion is moved.

¹⁸ the Lord was indeed jealous for his land and spared his people.

² God is zealous. The Lord is about to take vengeance: the Lord is about to take vengeance with wrath: the Lord is about to take vengeance on his adversaries, and to destroy utterly his enemies, himself.

¹³ And the Lord Almighty answered the angel, who had been talking with me, with good determinations, and comfortable words.

¹⁷ And again the angel who had been talking with me, said to me; Again he cried with a loud voice and said, Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Again shall cities abound with prosperity. And again the Lord will compassionate Sion and make choice of Jerusalem.

³ Now behold the angel who had been talking with me had stopped; and another angel came out to meet him ⁴ and spoke to him saying, "Run and speak to that young man and say, "Jerusalem shall be crouded with inhabitants by reason of the multitude of men and cattle therein.

² Thus saith the Lord Almighty, I have had a great jealousy of Jerusalem and Sion, and with great wrath I have been jealous of her. ³ But thus saith the Lord, I will return to Sion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the Lord Almighty, a holy mountain.

²⁶ Because him, whom thou smotest, they persecuted, and have added to the pains of my Wounds;

² For lo! thine enemies are become noisy; and they who hate thee have raised their heads. ³ Against thy people they have taken crafty counsel. And consulted against thy holies. ⁴ Come, said they, let us cut them off from being a nation: and let the name of Israel be no more remembered. ⁵ For with this intent they consulted in concert. Against thee have entered into conspiracy the hordes of the Idumeans and

⁴ Our soul is filled exceedingly; we are the scoff of the prosperous and the contempt of the haughty.

⁷ Remember, Lord, the children of Edom; who in the day of Jerusalem said, Rase! Rase! down to its foundations!

⁵ Ho! Assyrians! The rod of my wrath, even mine anger is in their hands, ⁶ I will send this anger of mine to a lawless nation; and I will order this people of mine to gather spoil and take the prey, and to trample down cities and lay them in the dust. ⁷ But he did not harbour such thoughts; nor did he reason thus in his mind; but his mind will prompt him to destroy nations not a few.

⁶ I was angry with my people: thou didst pollute my heritage, I delivered them into thy hand: and thou didst shew them no mercy. The yoke of the aged thou madest very heavy, ⁷ and saidst, I shall be empress forever. These things did not enter thy heart; nor didst thou call to mind what might at last befal thee. ⁸ Now, therefore, hear these things, thou voluptuary! thou who art seated at ease, who thinkest thyself secure; who sayest in thy heart; "I am and there is none else. I shall not sit a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children." ⁹ But now upon thee shall come these two things, suddenly, in one day. The loss of children and widowhood shall come suddenly on thee, in the midst of thy sorcery, in the full strength of thy mighty enchantments.

⁸ in a short wrath I turned away my face from thee; but with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on thee." The Lord who delivered thee hath said,

¹¹ Moab enjoyed rest from his youth and trusted in his glory; he hath not been decanted from vessel to vessel; and into banishment he hath never gone. Therefore his taste remaineth in him and his flavour is not lost: ¹² Therefore behold the days are coming saith the Lord, when I will send decanters and they shall decant him; and they shall break his vessels and cut to pieces his drinking horns; ¹³ and Moab shall be put to shame for Chamos, as the house of Israel were for Baithel their confidence.

²⁴ and retribute to Babylon and all the Chaldean inhabitants all the evils which they have done to Sion in your sight, saith the Lord.

³⁵ [p] Let the inhabitants of Sion say, My troubles and my miseries be upon Babylon! and let Jerusalem say, My blood be upon the Chaldean inhabitants!

³ and thou shalt say to the children of Ammon, Hear a word of the Lord, Thus saith the Lord, Because you exulted over my sanctuary; because it was profaned and over the land of Israel because it was laid waste, and over the house of Juda, because they went into captivity; ⁴ therefore behold I deliver you to the children of Kedem for a possession; and in their excursions they shall inhabit thee and pitch their tents in thee. They shall eat thy fruits and drink thy liquors. ⁵ And I will make the city of Ammon feeding places for camels; and the land of the Ammonites a pasture for sheep; and you shall know that I am the Lord. ⁶ For thus saith the Lord, Because thou didst clap thy hands and stamp with thy feet, and exult in thy soul over the land of Israel: ⁷ therefore I will stretch forth my hand against thee, and deliver thee up for a spoil to the nations: and I will utterly destroy thee from among the peoples, and cause thee to perish out of the countries, and you shall know that I am the Lord. ⁸ Thus saith the Lord, Because Moab said, Behold! shall not the house of Israel and Juda be like all the nations? ⁹ Therefore behold I will loosen the shoulder of Moab from his frontier cities, that beautiful country the house of Bethasimoth, at the head of the fountain of the city on the sea shore.

¹² Thus saith the Lord, Because Idumea in executing vengeance on the house of Juda gratified private resentment and executed the sentence with rigour. ¹³ Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will also stretch forth my hand against Idumea, and destroy out of it man and beast and make it a desolation. And they who are driven out of Thaiman shall fall by the sword. ¹⁴ And I will execute vengeance on Idumea by the hand of my people Israel who shall deal with Idumea according to mine indignation, and according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance saith the Lord. For the same cause, ¹⁵ thus saith the Lord, Because the Philistines acted with revenge and with joy of heart heightened the punishment to destroy utterly; ¹⁶ therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I will stretch forth my hand against the Philistines, and utterly exterminate the Cretans, and destroy the remnants which inhabit the sea coast, ¹⁷ and inflict on them great punishments; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I execute my vengeance on them.

² Son of man, Because Sor hath said against Jerusalem, Aha! She is trodden down; the nations have destroyed her; she is turned over to me; she that was full is laid waste,

⁶ And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord. Because thou hast been a staff of reed to the house of Israel; ⁷ when they took hold of thee with their hand thou didst break: even when every hand was clapping against them, and when they leaned on thee thou didst break and disjoint all their loin;

⁴ therefore, mountains of Israel, hear a word of the Lord, Thus saith the Lord, to the mountains and the hills, and to the brooks and vallies, even to the waste and desolate places, and to the cities which have been utterly forsaken; as they are become a prey and a haunt for the remnants of nations around; ⁵ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Lord, In the fire of my wrath I have spoken against these remnants of nations and against all Idumea: Because they have with joy distributed this land of mine among themselves for a possession, undervaluing lives that you might be a waste for prey;

³ And the Lord said, "For the three transgressions of Damascus, and for four shall I not be averse from it? Because with iron saws they sawed asunder the pregnant wives of the men of Galaad; ⁴ therefore I will send a fire into the house of Azael, and it shall devour the foundations of BenAder. ⁵ And I will break the bars of Damascus, and utterly destroy the inhabitants out of the plain of On, and I will cut off a tribe from the men of Charran, and the chosen people of Syria shall be made captives, saith the Lord. ⁶ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, shall I not be averse from them? Because they captivated the captives of the Salamonites, to deliver them up to Idumea; ⁷ therefore I will send a fire against the walls of Gaza, and it shall devour the foundations thereof. ⁸ And I will utterly destroy inhabitants out of Azotus, and a tribe shall be taken away from Ascalon; and I will lay my hand on Akkaron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall be destroyed saith the Lord. ⁹ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Tyre, and for four shall I not be averse from it? Because they delivered up the captives of the Salamonites to Idumea, and did not remember the covenant of brothers; ¹⁰ therefore I will send a fire against the walls of Tyre, and it shall devour the foundation thereof. ¹¹ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Idumea, and for four shall I not be averse from it? Because they pursued their brother with a sword, and violated a mother on the ground: he indeed to evidence his intention seized by force; he kept up his horror and his onset till he accomplished his purpose; ¹² therefore I will send a fire against Thaiman, and it shall consume the foundation of its walls. ¹³ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four shall I not be averse from them? Because they ripped up the pregnant wives of the Galaadites, that they might enlarge their own borders;

¹ Alas for them who despise Sion and have put their trust in the mount of Samaria. They have gathered as a vintage the governments of nations and gone in

¹⁰ On account of the impious slaughter of thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever. ¹¹ From the day that thou didst become an adversary, whenever the Philistines captivated his army, or strangers entered his gates and cast lots on Jerusalem, thou also wast as one of them. ¹² But thou shouldst not have looked on thy brother's day in the day of strangers; nor rejoiced over the children of Juda, in the day of their destruction; nor shouldst thou have vaunted in the day of affliction; ¹³ nor entered people's gates in the day of their distresses. Thou especially shouldst not have beheld their congregation in the day of their destruction, nor joined to fall on their army in the day of their defeat; ¹⁴ nor beset the passes to cut off such of them as were escaping; nor shouldst thou have hemmed in his fugitives, in a calamitous day. ¹⁵ Because the day of the Lord, against all the nations is near; as thou hast done so shall it be done to thee: thy dealings shall be returned on thy head. ¹⁶ For in the same manner as thou hast drunk on my holy mountain, all the nations shall be drunk up as wine. They shall be drunk up and swallowed down, and be as if they had never been.

² The Lord was very angry with your fathers,

⁶ For whom the Lord loveth he reproveth, And chastiseth every son whom he receiveth. ⁷ If you endure correction God dealeth with you as sons. For what son is there whom a father doth not correct?

⁷ In proportion to her ostentation and luxury inflict on her torment and grief. Because she saith in her heart, I am enthroned a queen and am not a widow, and shall not see sorrow; ⁸ therefore in one day these calamities shall come upon her, pestilence and sorrow and famine; and she shall be consumed with fire; for the Lord God who judgeth her is mighty.

⁵ who settled the measures of it? Dost thou know? Or who stretched the line upon it?

¹ And on that day thou wilt say, I bless thee, Lord; because, though thou wast angry with me, thou hast turned away thy wrath and pitied me.

¹¹ And for a long period fowls and porcupines, ibises and crows shall dwell therein. And over it shall be stretched a line of devastation; and in it the onocentaurs shall dwell.

²⁶ but establisheth the word of his servant, and verifieth the counsel of his messengers; who saith to Jerusalem, "Thou shalt be inhabited;" and to the cities of Idumea, "Ye shall be re builded, and in its deserts vegetation shall spring up:" ²⁷ Who saith to the deep, Thou shalt be wasted, and I will dry up the rivers: ²⁸ who saith, to Cyrus [I will give] wisdom, and he shall execute all my pleasure. Who saith to Jerusalem, "Thou shalt be rebuilded and the house dedicated to me I will found.

⁸ in a short wrath I turned away my face from thee; but with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on thee." The Lord who delivered thee hath said, ⁹ "From the flood which was in Noah's time this is my purpose; as I solemnly promised him at that time that I would no more be angry with the earth on thine account, nor in rebuking thee overturn the mountains; ¹⁰ and that thy hills should no more be moved; so my kindness for thee shall not fail, nor shall the covenant of thy peace ever be changed: for he said for thee, Be appeased, Lord."

²² How long shall it be, ere thou wilt return, despised daughter! Since the Lord hath created safety for a new plantation, with safety men may walk about. ²³ For thus saith the Lord, Again they shall use this form of words in the land of Juda and in his cities when I have brought back his captivity, "Blessed be the Lord on his righteous, his holy mountain." ²⁴ It shall be used by them who dwell in the cities of Juda and in all his land, and shall be repeated by the husbandman and among the flocks. ²⁵ For I have satisfied with drink every thirsty soul; and every soul that was hungry I have filled.

³⁹ If these laws cease to operate in my presence, saith the Lord, then may the race of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever. and the diameter thereof shall extend forward as far as the hills of Gareb: ⁴⁰ and it shall be enclosed around with choice stones; and all the Asaremoth as far as Nachal Kedron, even to the corner of the horse gate eastward shall be dedicated to the Lord, and it shall no more fail nor shall it be demolished until the age.

¹⁰ Thus said the Lord, In the place which you say is a desert without men and beasts; in the cities of Juda and in the streets of Jerusalem which have been desolate so as to have neither man nor beast, ¹¹ there shall be heard again the sound of joy and the sound of mirth; the voice of bridegroom and the voice of the bride; the voice of people, saying, "Praise the Lord Almighty; for the Lord is gracious; for his mercy endureth forever." And they shall bring gifts to the house of the Lord. For I will bring back all the captivity of this land, as in former times, saith the Lord. ¹² Thus saith the Lord of hosts, There shall be again in this very place which shall be desolate, without man or beast, in all the cities belonging to it lodging places for shepherds folding flocks.

²⁴ And my servant David shall be chief among them. He shall be singly the shepherd of all. Because they will walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and practise them, ²⁵ therefore they shall dwell in that land of theirs which I gave to my servant Jacob. Where their fathers dwelt there they shall dwell and my servant David shall be the only chief forever. ²⁶ And I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. ²⁷ And I will place my sanctuary in the midst of them forever. And my habitation shall be among them; and I will be their God and they shall be my people. ²⁸ And the nations shall know that I am the Lord who sanctifieth them, by my sanctuary being in the midst of them forever.

²⁵ Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will now bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have compassion on the house of Israel. And I will shew a zeal for my holy name, ²⁶ when they shall have suffered disgrace, for the rebellion of which they were guilty, when they dwelt peaceably in their own land. And there shall be none to make them afraid, ²⁷ when I have brought them back from among the nations and gathered them from the countries of the nations. So I shall be hallowed by them in the sight of the nations ²⁸ and they shall know that I the Lord am their God, when I manifest myself to them among the nations. ²⁹ And I will no more turn away my face from them, for as much as I have poured out my wrath on the house of Israel, saith the Lord, Lord.

³ And he led me thither. And lo! a man, whose appearance resembled that of sparkling brass; and in his hand a builder's line and a measuring reed. And he stood at the gate.

³ And having a measure in his hand, he measured a thousand with the measure, and waded across a purling stream.

³⁵ The circumference eighteen thousand. And the name of the city from the day it is built shall be the name it now hath.

¹⁴ And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zorobabel the son of Salathiel of the tribe of Juda, and the spirit of Jesus the son of Josedek the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people and they went and worked at the house of the Lord Almighty their God

¹ Then I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and lo! a man with a measuring line in his hand! ² and I said to him, Whither art thou going? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem to see how broad it is, and what is its length.

¹⁰ Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Sion! for lo! I am coming; and I will dwell amidst thee, saith the Lord; ¹¹ and many nations will flee to the Lord in that day, and be his people and dwell in the midst of thee; and thou shalt know that the Lord Almighty hath sent me to thee.

⁹ "The hands of Zorobabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands shall finish it: and thou shalt know, [since the Lord Almighty hath sent me to thee,

³ But thus saith the Lord, I will return to Sion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the Lord Almighty, a holy mountain.

⁶ But now I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, and I have made choice of David to be over my people Israel.

³ Now these are chiefs of the country who dwelt in Jerusalem and the cities of Juda. There dwelt every man in his possession in their cities, Israel, the priest and the Levites and the Nathinims and the children of Solomon's servants:

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³⁵ For God will save Sion, and the cities of Judea shall be rebuilded, and the seed of his servants shall dwell there.

¹³ For the Lord hath chosen Sion, and made choice of it for his habitation. ¹⁴ This shall be my rest forever. Here I will dwell, for I have chosen it.

¹ but the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will still make choice of Israel; and they shall rest in their own land; and the stranger shall be joined to them, and shall be added to the house of Jacob.

⁸ but thou Israel my servant; thou Jacob, whom I have chosen; thou seed of Abraham whom I loved! ⁹ have I not taken thee from the ends of the earth, and from the speculations thereof called thee, and said to thee, Thou art my servant I have chosen thee and have not forsaken thee.

¹³ [c] Rejoice heavens; and let the earth be glad, let the mountains resound with bursts of joy; for God hath compassionated his people, and comforted those of his people who were afflicted.

³ And now Sion, I will comfort thee. I have indeed comforted all her desolations, and I will make her waste places like a garden; and those west of her like the garden of the Lord. In her shall be found joy and gladness, thanksgiving and the sound of praise.

¹² I THE I AM am he who comforteth thee. Recollect what thou wast when terrified at a mortal man, and at a son of man who are withered like grass;

⁹ let the ruins of Jerusalem break out together with bursts of joy. Because the Lord hath compassionated her and delivered Jerusalem;

⁴ And the wastes of old times shall be rebuilded; and former desolations shall be repaired, and wasted cities renewed which had lain in ruins for ages. ⁵ And strangers shall come and feed thy flocks and6 foreigners shall be thy ploughmen and vine dressers. ⁶ But you shall be called priests of the Lord, ministers of God. You shall eat the wealth of nations and for their riches be admired.

¹³ As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you, and in Jerusalem you shall find consolation.

¹³ Then shall virgins rejoice in the assembly of youths; the elders also shall be filled with joy; for I will turn their mourning into joy and make them glad.

²³ For thus saith the Lord, Again they shall use this form of words in the land of Juda and in his cities when I have brought back his captivity, "Blessed be the Lord on his righteous, his holy mountain." ²⁴ It shall be used by them who dwell in the cities of Juda and in all his land, and shall be repeated by the husbandman and among the flocks.

⁴³ And fields shall again be purchased in this land which as thou sayest shall be untrodden by men and beasts when they are delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans. ⁴⁴ And they shall purchase fields for money. And thou shalt subscribe deeds and seal them and cause them to be witnessed in the land of Benjamin and around Jerusalem and in the cities of Juda and in the cities of the mountain and in the cities of Sephela and in the cities of Nageb; for I will bring back their captivities.

¹³ In the cities of the hilly country and in the cities of Sephela, and in the cities of Nageb and in the land of Benjamin and in those around Jerusalem and in the cities of Juda, flocks shall again pass under the hand of him that counteth them, said the Lord.

¹⁰ and upon you I will multiply men even the whole house of Israel; and the cities shall be rebuilt and the wastes inhabited: ¹¹ and upon you I will multiply men and cattle, and cause you to be inhabited as in your former state. And I will deal kindly with you as I did in times of old; and you shall know that I am the Lord.

³³ Thus saith Adonai the Lord, when I have cleansed you from all your iniquities, I will cause your cities to be rebuilded and the desolate places shall be inhabited,

¹⁴ And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel; and they shall rebuild the wasted cities and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine thereof; and make gardens and eat the fruits of them.

²⁰ and this shall be the dominion of the captivity; to the Israelites shall belong the land of the Chananites to Sarepta, and to the captives of Jerusalem, to Ephratha: they shall possess the cities of Nageb.

¹⁵ The Lord hath taken away thy transgressions; he hath redeemed thee out of the hand of thine enemies. The king of Israel; the Lord is in the midst of thee; thou shalt no more see evils. ¹⁶ At that time the Lord will say to Jerusalem, " Take courage, Sion. Let not thy hands hang down. ¹⁷ The Lord thy God is with thee. The Mighty one will save thee. He will bring thee gladness and renew thee in his love; and rejoice over thee with joy as in the day of a festival;

¹² And the Lord will settle Juda in his portion, in the holy land; and will again make choice of Jerusalem.

² And the Lord said to Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, Satan! even the Lord who hath chosen Jerusalem, rebuke thee! lo! is not this like a brand snatched from fire?

²⁸ With respect to these glad tidings, they are enemies on your account; but with respect to the choice, they are beloved on account of the fathers. ²⁹ For the favours and choice of God are not reversed.

⁴ as he chose us in him before the5 foundation of the world, that we might be holy and blameless before him in love;

²⁹ In the days of Phakee king of Israel, Thalgathphellasar king of the Assyrians came up and took Ain and Abel, and Thamacha and Anioch, and Kenez and Asor, and Galen and Galilee; all the land of Nephthaleim, and removed the inhabitants to Assyria.

¹ In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda, Osea son of Ela, began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned nine years. ² And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, but not like the kings of Israel who were before him. ³ Against him Salmanassar king of the Assyrians came up. Now Osea was his vassal and had withheld from him the customary homage gift, ⁴ and the king of the Assyrians had found infidelity in Osea; for lie had sent messengers to Segor king of Egypt, and had not carried to the king of the Assyrians the customary homage gift that year. Therefore the king of the Assyrians besieged him and bound him in prison. ⁵ When the king of Assyria had come up through all the land he went to Samaria and besieged it three years. ⁶ In the ninth year of Osea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and transplanted Israel among the Assyrians, and caused them to dwell on the Alae and the Abor, rivers of Gosan, and on the mountains of the Medes.

⁹ Now in the fourth year of Ezekias which was the seventh year of Osea son of Ela king of Israel, Salamanasser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it, ¹⁰ and took it at the end of three years. In the sixth year of Ezekias, which was the ninth of Osea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. ¹¹ And the king of Assyria removed the Samaritans to Assyria, and placed them along the Alae and the Abor, a river of Gozan, and on the mountains of the Medes, ¹² because they had not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant; and, with regard to all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, had neither hearkened to them nor done them.

¹ In his days Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon came up, and Joakim became his vassal three years. Then he turned and revolted from him, ² and the Lord sent against him predatory bands of the Chaldeans, and predatory bands of Syria, and predatory bands of Moab, and the predatory bands of the Ammonites. These he let loose to prevail in the land of Juda, ³ according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by the ministry of his prophets. But to add to the wrath of the Lord against Juda, that he might remove them from his presence, for all the sins which Manasses had committed, ⁴ Joakim shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with it. Therefore the Lord would not be pacified. ⁵ Now the rest of the acts of Joakim and all that he did, behold are they not written in the book of the journal of the kings of Juda? ⁶ And Joakim slept with his fathers, and Joachim his son reigned in his stead. ⁷ And the king of Egypt never came any more out of his land; for the king of Babylon took all that belonged to the king of Egypt, from the brook of Egypt to the river of Euphrates. ⁸ Joachim was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Nestha. She was a daughter of Ellanastham of Jerusalem. ⁹ And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father had done. ¹⁰ At that time Nebuchodonosar king of Babylon, came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. ¹¹ Now when Nebuchodonosar came to the city, and his servants laid siege to it, ¹² Joachim king of Juda, went out to the king of Babylon, he and his servants and his mother and his chiefs and his officers; and the king of Babylon in the eighth year of his reign, took him, ¹³ and carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord. ¹⁴ And he carried away captive from Jerusalem all the chiefs and mighty men of valour, ten thousand captives, with all the carpenters and mechanics, so that there were none left but the poor of the land. ¹⁵ When he carried away Joachim to Babylon, he carried away also out of Jerusalem in captivity to Babylon, the king's mother and the king's wives, and his officers, ¹⁶ and the mighty men of the country, and all the men of the army, amounting to seven thousand, and the carpenters and mechanics amounting to a thousand. All these were valiant men fit for war. These the king of Babylon carried away captives to Babylon. ¹⁷ And the king of Babylon made Batthainas king in his stead, and called his name Sedekias. ¹⁸ Sedekias was twenty one years old when he began to reign and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Amital. She was a daughter of Jeremias. ¹⁹ And he did evil in the sight of the Lord according to all that Joachim had done. ²⁰ Because the anger of the Lord was against Jerusalem and Juda until he cast them out from his presence; therefore when Sedekias rebelled against the king of Babylon,

³⁷ Thou king, art a king of kings, to whom the God of heaven hath given a kingdom, strong and mighty and glorious, ³⁸ in every place where the sons of men dwell. Into thy hand he hath delivered the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, and appointed thee lord over all. Thou art the head of gold. ³⁹ And after thee there shall be raised up another kingdom inferior to thee; then a third kingdom which is the brass, which shall rule over the whole earth; ⁴⁰ then a fourth kingdom which shall be strong as iron. As iron breaketh to pieces and subdueth all things, so shall it break and subdue all. ⁴¹ And inasmuch as thou sawest the feet and toes, partly of clay and partly of iron, it shall be a disjointed kingdom, though there shall be in it some of its iron root. As thou sawest the iron mixed with the clay; ⁴² and the toes of the feet were part iron, and part clay, some part of that kingdom will be strong and some part of it will be broken. ⁴³ Inasmuch as thou sawest the iron mingled with the clay, there will be mixtures in it, of the seed of men, and they will not cement one with another, as iron cloth not cement with clay.

³ and four great beasts came up out of the sea, different one from the other. ⁴ The first was like a lioness, and had wings like those of an eagle. I beheld till her wings were plucked off; and she was raised from the earth and stood on the feet of a man and a man's heart was given her. ⁵ And behold the second beast was like a bear; and it stood half erect and there were three ribs in its mouth between its teeth, and they said to it thus, "Arise, devour much flesh." ⁶ After this I looked, and lo! another beast like a leopard; and it had four wings of a bird on it; and this beast had four heads and to it dominion was given. ⁷ After this I beheld, and lo! a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong and its teeth of iron! It devoured and brake in pieces! and the residue it trampled with its feet. Now this was far different from all the beasts which were before it and it had ten horns. ⁸ I attended to its horns, and behold another little horn sprouted up in the midst of them; and three of the horns which were before it were rooted out from before it. And behold in this horn there were eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking great things.

³ I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and lo a ram stood before the Oubal and it had lofty horns and one was higher than the other; and the highest sprang up last. ⁴ And I saw the ram butting westward and northward and southward, and of all the beasts none could stand before him nor was there any to deliver out of his hand. So he acted according to his pleasure and became great. ⁵ And while I was considering, behold a he goat came from the south west over the face of the whole earth and he did not seem to touch the ground. And the goat had a horn between his eyes. ⁶ And he came to the ram which had two horns and which I saw standing before the Oubal and ran up to him with all his might. ⁷ I saw him indeed coming up to the ram and he was exasperated against him, and he smote the ram and broke his two horns and the ram had not power to stand before him. So he threw him on the ground and trampled him, and there was none to deliver the ram out of his hand. ⁸ And the goat of the goats became very great and when he was in full strength, that great horn of his was broken; and four others sprang up from under it towards the four winds of heaven. ⁹ And out from the first of them there came forth one strong horn which became very great towards the south and towards the host, ¹⁰ and its greatness reached even to the host of heaven. And there fell on the earth some of the host of heaven and some of the stars, and these were trodden down. ¹¹ And until the captain general should deliver the captivity, even by reason of him the sacrifice was disturbed; and he was prospered; and the sanctuary is to be desolated; ¹² and sin was permitted against the sacrifice; and this righteousness was cast on the ground; so he acted and was prospered. ¹³ And I heard a holy one speaking; and a holy one said to the Phelmoni who spoke, "How long shall this vision last, respecting the sacrifice which is taken away, and the sin of desolation which is permitted; and the sanctuary and the host be trodden down?" ¹⁴ And he said to him, Even till there shall be of an evening and a morning two thousand four hundred days. Then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

²⁸ therefore he will return to his own land with much wealth and his heart will be against the holy covenant, and he will act and return to his own land. ²⁹ At the time he will return and come to the south; but this last expedition will not be like the first: ³⁰ for the Kitians who set out at the same time will arrive, and he will be humbled. Then he will return and will be inflamed with wrath against the holy covenant. And he will act and return and keep up an intelligence with them who have forsaken the holy covenant. ³¹ And seeds out of him will spring up, and the sanctuary of the dominion will be polluted; and the daily sacrifice will be removed; and there will be set up an abomination which hath caused desolation, ³² which they who break covenant will bring in by flatteries. But the people who acknowledge their God will take courage and act. ³³ And the men of understanding among the people will keep up an intelligence for many purposes; but they will be weakened by sword and by fire, and by captivity, and by plundering, for days. ³⁴ And when they are weak, they will be helped with a little help. And many will join them by flatteries. ³⁵ Then some of the wise will be weak that they may be tried and chosen, and that at a time the end may be revealed.

¹ Then I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and lo! a man with a measuring line in his hand!

¹ Then I turned and lifted up mine eyes and looked, and lo! a flying sickle.

⁹ And I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and lo! two women came out, and there was a wind by their wings. Now they had the wings of a stork. And when they had lifted up the measure between heaven and earth,

¹ and when they who afflicted Juda and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a house for the Lord God of Israel,

⁴ Upon this the people of the land began to weaken the hands of the people of Juda, and they impeded their building,

⁷ And in the days of Arthasastha, Tabeel in concert with Mithridates, and the rest of his fellow servants, wrote to Arthasastha king of the Persians; the collector of the tribute drew up a writing in Syriack;

³ At that time Thanthani the chief governor on this side the river, and Satharbouzani, and their fellow servants, came to them and spoke to them in terms to this effect, Who hath ordered you to build this house, and renew this theatrical entertainment?

¹⁷ Israel was a wandering sheep. Lions scared him away. The first who devoured him was the king of Assur, and this last, the king of Babylon gnawed his bones. ¹⁸ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I will execute vengeance on the king of Babylon and his land as I executed vengeance on the king of Assyria.

⁷ And I heard the man clothed with the fine robes who was over the water of the river. He lifted up his right and his left hand to heaven and sware by him who liveth forever and ever that it will be until a time of times and the half of a time. When an end is put to the dispersion, they will know all these things.

¹³ some rejoicing in a thing of naught, and others saying, "Have we not by our own strength taken horns?"

¹⁴ Thou hast struck with consternation the heads of mighties, at this they will be appalled! They will slacken their reins and be like a poor man eating in secret,

²¹ And I said, What are these going to do? And he said, Those four horns which scattered Juda and Israel are broken, and not one of them hath raised a head; now these are come to sharpen for themselves those four horns, namely the nations which lifted up a horn against the land of the Lord, to scatter it.

² and I said to him, Whither art thou going? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem to see how broad it is, and what is its length.

¹¹ Then I answered and said to him, What are those two olive trees which are on the right and left of the candlestick? ¹² And I inquired a second time and said to him, What are those two branches of the olive trees which are in the handles of those two funnels of gold, which are pouring into and supplying the golden pipes? ¹³ And he said to me, Dost thou not know what these are? And when I said, No, lord. ¹⁴ Then he said to me, These are the two sons of fatness. They stand before the Lord of the whole earth.

¹⁴ for thus saith the Lord Almighty, In the same manner as I thought of afflicting you, when your fathers provoked me, saith the Lord Almighty and I relented not;

²⁵ His shoe shall be iron and brass. As thy days so shall be thy strength.

¹⁶ For when they came out of Egypt, Israel marched through the wilderness to the sea of Siph, and came to Kades;

¹⁸ Israel marched through the wilderness, and went round the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came eastward of Moab, and encamped on the bank of the Arnon, but did not enter the borders of Moab; for Arnon was the boundary of Moab.

¹¹ he sent Jerubaal, and Barak, and Jephthae, and, Samuel, and delivered us out of the hands of our enemies round about, and you dwelt securely.

²⁷ Therefore thou didst deliver them into the hand of their enemies, who afflicted them. But when, in the time of their distress they cried to thee, thou from heaven didst hear, and in thy tender mercies which are great, thou didst send them deliverers, and save them out of the hand of them who were afflicting them.

¹⁵ Behold proselytes shall come to thee for my sake; and they shall sojourn with thee and fly to thee. ¹⁶ Behold I have created thee, not like a coppersmith blowing coals and using a tool for the work. But I have created thee, not for destruction. ¹⁷ Perish every weapon formed against thee! I will not prosper it. Though every voice should rise up against thee for judgment, thou shalt overcome them all and in the trial they shall be condemned. There is an inheritance for them who serve the Lord, therefore you are to be just for me, saith the Lord.

²¹ And they who have been preserved, shall go up from mount Sion to execute vengeance on the mountain of Esau. And the kingdom shall be the Lord's.

⁵ therefore she shall have peace. As for Assur, when he hath come against your land, and when he hath passed over your country; against him shall be raised up seven shepherds. And there shall be eight bites of men ⁶ and they will feed Assur with a sword and the land of Nebrod in its enclosure. So he will deliver from the Assyrian, when he hath come against your land and when he hath passed over your borders.

⁸ the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among beasts of the forest, and like a young lion among flocks of sheep; so that when he passeth through and hath made a choice, he may tear and there shall be none to deliver. ⁹ Thy hand shall be raised up against them who afflict thee; and all thine enemies shall be utterly cut off.

¹² You the prisoners of the congregation shall be placed in strong holds, and for thy one day's sojourning I will make thee twofold compensation. ¹³ For I have bent thee Juda, a bow for myself and filled it with Ephraim; and I will raise up thy sons, Sion, against the sons of Greece, and I will handle thee as the sword of a warrior. ¹⁴ Let but the Lord be against them and he will dart out like a thunderbolt. The Lord Almighty will sound a trumpet, and march in the billow of his threat. ¹⁵ The Lord Almighty will protect them, and they shall consume them and overwhelm them with sling stones; and drink them up as wine and fill the phials as an altar. ¹⁶ In that day the Lord their God will save them; his people like a flock. Because holy stones are rolled on his land.

³ against the shepherds my wrath is kindled; but over the lambs I will keep a strict watch. The Lord God Almighty will indeed watch over his flock, the house of Juda, and he will array them as his comely horse in battle. ⁴ When from him he hath looked, and from him drawn up in array; then from him shall issue forth the wrathful bow, from him every one who sallieth out at the same time. ⁵ And they shall be like warriors trampling dirt in the highways, and shall be drawn up in array for battle. Because the Lord is with them, therefore the riders on horses shall be put to shame.

² saith, Behold I will make Jerusalem like shaken porches for all the peoples around. And by Judea there shall be a siege against Jerusalem, ³ and in that day I will make Jerusalem a stone to be trampled by all the nations: every one who trampleth her will make her his mocking stock. When all the nations of the earth shall be gathered against her, ⁴ in that day saith the Lord Almighty, I will smite every horse with astonishment and his rider with madness. But upon the house of Juda I will open mine eyes. When I smite all the horses of the peoples with blindness, ⁵ then will Juda's captains of thousands say in their hearts, "We shall find those for us who inhabit Jerusalem by the Lord Almighty their God." ⁶ In that day I will make Juda's captains of thousands like a firebrand among wood, and like a flaming torch among stubble. And they shall devour on the right and on the left all the peoples around. And Jerusalem shall again dwell by herself in Jerusalem.

⁴ I ordered the transgressors not to transgress, and said to sinners, Exalt not a horn. ⁵ Lift not up your horn on high; speak not iniquity against God.

¹⁰ [J] I will break all the horns of sinners, but the horn of the righteous shall be exalted.