Olen your door, O Lebanon, so taht fire may devour your cedars!
Wait, O pine tree, for the cedar has fallen. the stately trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan; the dense forest has been cut down!
Listen to the wail of thes hepherd! their rich pastures are destoyed! Listen to the roar of the lions; the lush thicket of the Jordan is ruined!
This is what the LORD my God says,"Pasture the flock marked for slaughter.
Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished, Those who sell them say, Praise the LORD. I an rich! Thjeir own shepeherds do not spare them.
Fofr I will no longer have pity on the people of the land." devcalres the LORD,"I will hand everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will oppress the land and I will not rescue them from their hands."
So I pastured thef lock marked for slaughter, particularly the oppressed of the flock, Then I took two staffs andc alled one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock
In one month I got rid of the three shepherds. The flock detested me, and I grew weary of them
and said, "I will not be your sheepherd, Let tehd ying die, and the perishing perish, Let those who are left eat one another's flesh,"
Then L took my staff called Favor and broke it, revoking the covenant I had made with all the antions.
It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew it was the word of the LORD
I told them, "If you think it best, give me my pay , but if not keep it," So they paid me thirty pieces of silver.
And the LORD said to me," Throw it o the potter{- the handsome price at which they priced me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD to the potter.
Then I broke mys econd staff called Union, breaking brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
Then the LORD said to me," Take again teh equipment of a foolish shepherd,
For I am going to raise up a shephered over the land who will not care for the lost, or seek the land who woll not care for the lost, or seek the young, or heal teh injured, or feed the healthy, but will eat the meat of the choice sheep fearing off their hoofs.
"Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May tehs word srike his arm and his right eye! May teh sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered, his right eye totally binded!"
Zechariah 12
This is the word of the LORD concerning Israel, The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of thee arth, and who forms the spirit of man within him, declares;
"I am going to amke Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling, Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem.
On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves,
On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness," declares the LORD," I will keep a watchful eye over the horses of the antions
Then the leaders of Judah will say in their hearts, "The people of jerusalem are strongbecause the LORD Almighty is their God."
"On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like aflaming torch among sheaves, They will consume right and left all the surrounding peoples, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.
"The LORD will save the dwelling of Judah first, so that the honor of the house of David and of Jerusalem's inhabitants may not be greater than that of Judah.
On that day the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that thef eeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the Angel of the LORD going before them.
On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attck Jerusalem.
"And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication, They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be great, like the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
The land will mourn, each clan by itself, woth their wives by themselves the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives.
the clan of Shimei and their wives.
and all the rest of the clans and their wives.
Zechariah 13
"On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
"On that day, I will banish the names of the idols from the land, and they will be remembered no more," declares the LORD Almighty,"I will remove both the prophets and teh spirit of impuriy from the land.
And if anyone still prophesies his father and mother, to whom he was born, will say to him, You must die, because you have told lies in the LORD's name, When he prophesies, his own parents will stab him.
"On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his prophetic vision. He will not put on a prophet's garment of hari in order to deceive.
He will say, I am not a prophet, I am a farmer, the land has been my livehood since my youth,
If someone asks him "What are these wounds on your body?" he will answer, "The wounds I was given at the house of my friends.
"Awake O sword, against mys hepherd,a gainst the man who is close to me!" declares the LORD Almighty ."Strike the shepherd, and tehs heep will be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the little ones,
In the whole land,: declares the LORD,"two thirds will bes truck down and perish; yet one-third will be left in it.
This third I will bring into the fire. I will refine them like gold, They will call on my name and I will answer them, I will say,"They are my people, and they will say, "The LORD is our God."
Zechariah 14
A day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided among you.
I will gather all the antions to Herusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped, Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.
Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights in the day of battle
On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, cast of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great cvalley, with half of the mountion moving north and half moving south,
You wull flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel, You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost,
It will be a unique day , without daytime or nighttime- a day known to the LORD, When evening comes, there will be light.'
On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half to the eastern sea and half to the western sea, in summer and in winter
The LORD will be king over the whole earth, On that day there will be one LORD, and his name the only name.
The whold land, from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, will become like the Arabah, But Jerusalem will be raised up and remain in its place, from the benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate, to the Comer Fate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.
It will be inhabited, never again will it be destroyed, Jerusalem will be secure,
This is the plague with which the LORD will strike all the nations that fought gainst Jerusalem, Their flesh will rot while, they are still standing on their tongyes will rot in their mouths.
On that day men will bes trucken by the LORD with great panic, Each man will seize the hand of another, and they will attack each other,
Judah too will fight at Jerusalem, The wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected- great quantities of gold ans silver and clothing
A similar plague will strike the horses and mules, the camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps
Then the survovors from all the antions that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King the LORD Almighty, and to delebrate the Feast of Tabernacles,
If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, they will have no rain.
It the Egyoptian people do not go up and take part they will have no rain. The LORD will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the antions that do not go up celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles
This will be the punishment of Egypt abd the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celenrate the Feast of Tabernacles
On that day HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the LORD's house will be like the sacred bowls in front of the altar,
Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the LORD Almighty, and all who come to sacrifice will take some of the pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD Almighty.