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Zechariah Chapter 1

¹In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of ForeverOne came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying, ²"ForeverOne was very displeased with your fathers.

³Therefore tell them: Thus says ForeverOne of Armies: 'Return to me,' says ForeverOne of Armies, 'and I will return to you,' says ForeverOne of Armies.

⁴Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says ForeverOne of Armies, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says ForeverOne.

⁵Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

⁶But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn't they overtake your fathers? "Then they repented and said, 'Just as ForeverOne of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'" ⁷On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of ForeverOne came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying, ⁸"I had a vision in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.

⁹Then I asked, 'My lord, what are these?'" The angel who talked with me said to me, "I will show you what these are." ¹⁰The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, "They are the ones ForeverOne has sent to go back and forth through the earth." ¹¹They reported to the angel of ForeverOne who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, "We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace." ¹²Then the angel of ForeverOne replied, "O ForeverOne of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?" ¹³ForeverOne answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.

¹⁴So the angel who talked with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, 'Thus says ForeverOne of Armies: "I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

¹⁵I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity." ¹⁶Therefore thus says ForeverOne: "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it," says ForeverOne of Armies, "and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem."' ¹⁷"Proclaim further, saying, 'Thus says ForeverOne of Armies: "My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and ForeverOne will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem."'" ¹⁸I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four horns.

¹⁹I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" He answered me, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem." ²⁰ForeverOne showed me four craftsmen.

²¹Then I asked, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to throw down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it."

Zechariah Chapter 2

¹I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.

²Then I asked, "Where are you going?" He said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length." ³Behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him, ⁴and said to him, "Run, speak to this young man, saying, 'Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.

⁵For I,' says ForeverOne, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.

⁶Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,' says ForeverOne; 'for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,' says ForeverOne.

⁷'Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.' ⁸For thus says ForeverOne of Armies: 'For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

⁹For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a spoil to those who served them; and you will know that ForeverOne of Armies has sent me.

¹⁰Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,' says ForeverOne.

¹¹Many nations shall join themselves to ForeverOne in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that ForeverOne of Armies has sent me to you.

¹²ForeverOne will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

¹³Be silent, all flesh, before ForeverOne; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!"

Zechariah Chapter 3

¹He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of ForeverOne, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.

²ForeverOne said to Satan, "ForeverOne rebuke you, Satan! Yes, ForeverOne who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn't this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?" ³Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.

⁴He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, "Take the filthy garments off of him." To him he said, "Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing." ⁵I said, "Let them set a clean turban on his head." So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and the angel of ForeverOne was standing by.

⁶The angel of ForeverOne protested to Joshua, saying, ⁷"Thus says ForeverOne of Armies: 'If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.

⁸Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will produce my servant, the Branch.

⁹For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,' says ForeverOne of Armies, 'and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

¹⁰In that day,' says ForeverOne of Armies, 'you will invite every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.'"

Zechariah Chapter 4

¹The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.

²He said to me, "What do you see?" I said, "I have seen a lampstand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps which are on the top of it; ³and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it." ⁴I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, "What are these, my lord?" ⁵Then the angel who talked with me answered me, "Don't you know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord." ⁶Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, "This is the word of ForeverOne to Zerubbabel, saying, 'Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says ForeverOne of Armies.

⁷Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of 'Grace, grace, to it!'" ⁸Moreover the word of ForeverOne came to me, saying, ⁹"The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it; and you will know that ForeverOne of Armies has sent me to you.

¹⁰Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the eyes of ForeverOne, which run back and forth through the whole earth." ¹¹Then I asked him, "What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lampstand and on the left side of it?" ¹²I asked him the second time, "What are these two olive branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that pour the golden oil out of themselves?" ¹³He answered me, "Don't you know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord." ¹⁴Then he said, "These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth."

Zechariah Chapter 5

¹Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.

²He said to me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits." ³Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.

⁴I will cause it to go out," says ForeverOne of Armies, "and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones." ⁵Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me, "Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that is appearing." ⁶I said, "What is it?" He said, "This is the ephah basket that is appearing." He said moreover, "This is their appearance in all the land ⁷(and behold, a talent of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah basket." ⁸He said, "This is Wickedness;" and he threw her down into the midst of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.

⁹Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky.

¹⁰Then I said to the angel who talked with me, "Where are these carrying the ephah basket?" ¹¹He said to me, "To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place."

Zechariah Chapter 6

¹Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.

²In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses; ³in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot dappled horses, all of them powerful.

⁴Then I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?" ⁵The angel answered me, "These are the four winds of the sky, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.

⁶The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country; and the white went out after them; and the dappled went forth toward the south country." ⁷The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk back and forth through the earth: and he said, "Go around and through the earth!" So they walked back and forth through the earth.

⁸Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, "Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country." ⁹The word of ForeverOne came to me, saying, ¹⁰"Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon.

¹¹Yes, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest; ¹²and speak to him, saying, 'Thus says ForeverOne of Armies, "Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build the temple of ForeverOne; ¹³even he shall build the temple of ForeverOne; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

¹⁴The crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of ForeverOne.

¹⁵Those who are far off shall come and build in the temple of ForeverOne; and you shall know that ForeverOne of Armies has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey the voice of ForeverOne your God."'"

Zechariah Chapter 7

¹In the fourth year of king Darius the word of ForeverOne came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.

²The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat ForeverOne's favor, ³and to speak to the priests of the house of ForeverOne of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?" ⁴Then the word of ForeverOne of Armies came to me, saying, ⁵"Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, did you fast to me at all, really to me?

⁶When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

⁷Aren't these the words which ForeverOne proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?'" ⁸The word of ForeverOne came to Zechariah, saying, ⁹"Thus has ForeverOne of Armies spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

¹⁰Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.' ¹¹But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

¹²Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which ForeverOne of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from ForeverOne of Armies.

¹³As he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said ForeverOne of Armies; ¹⁴"but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."

Zechariah Chapter 8

¹The word of ForeverOne of Armies came to me.

²Thus says ForeverOne of Armies: "I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath." ³Thus says ForeverOne: "I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called 'The City of Truth;' and the mountain of ForeverOne of Armies, 'The Holy Mountain.'" ⁴Thus says ForeverOne of Armies: "Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

⁵The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets." ⁶Thus says ForeverOne of Armies: "If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?" says ForeverOne of Armies.

⁷Thus says ForeverOne of Armies: "Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; ⁸and I will bring them, and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness." ⁹Thus says ForeverOne of Armies: "Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of ForeverOne of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.

¹⁰For before those days there was no wages for man, nor any wages for an animal; neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbor.

¹¹But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days," says ForeverOne of Armies.

¹²"For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

¹³You were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, yet I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don't be afraid. Let your hands be strong." ¹⁴For thus says ForeverOne of Armies: "As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath," says ForeverOne of Armies, "and I didn't repent; ¹⁵so again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don't be afraid.

¹⁶These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates, ¹⁷and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate," says ForeverOne.

¹⁸The word of ForeverOne of Armies came to me.

¹⁹Thus says ForeverOne of Armies: "The fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace." ²⁰Thus says ForeverOne of Armies: "Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come; ²¹and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, 'Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of ForeverOne, and to seek ForeverOne of Armies. I will go also.' ²²Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek ForeverOne of Armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of ForeverOne." ²³Thus says ForeverOne of Armies: "In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, 'We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"

Zechariah Chapter 9

¹An oracle. The word of ForeverOne is against the land of Hadrach, and will rest upon Damascus; for the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward ForeverOne; ²and Hamath, also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.

³Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.

⁴Behold, LordOfMine will dispossess her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.

⁵Ashkelon will see it, and fear; Gaza also, and will writhe in agony; as will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed; and the king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.

⁶Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

⁷I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth; and he also will be a remnant for our God; and he will be as a chieftain in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.

⁸I will encamp around my house against the army, that none pass through or return; and no oppressor will pass through them any more: for now I have seen with my eyes.

⁹Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

¹⁰I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak peace to the nations: and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

¹¹As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

¹²Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

¹³For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.

¹⁴ForeverOne will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash like lightning; and LordOfMine ForeverOne will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.

¹⁵ForeverOne of Armies will defend them; and they will destroy and overcome with sling stones; and they will drink, and roar as through wine; and they will be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar.

¹⁶ForeverOne their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they are like the jewels of a crown, lifted on high over his land.

¹⁷For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

Zechariah Chapter 10

¹Ask of ForeverOne rain in the spring time, ForeverOne who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.

²For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.

³My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the male goats; For ForeverOne of Armies has visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle.

⁴From him will come forth the cornerstone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.

⁵They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because ForeverOne is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.

⁶"I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not rejected them. For I am ForeverOne their God, and I will hear them.

⁷Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in ForeverOne.

⁸I will signal for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them; and they will increase as they have increased.

⁹I will sow them among the peoples; and they will remember me in far countries; and they will live with their children, and will return.

¹⁰I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and there won't be room enough for them.

¹¹He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.

¹²I will strengthen them in ForeverOne; and they will walk up and down in his name," says ForeverOne.

Zechariah Chapter 11

¹Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.

²Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.

³A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

⁴Thus says ForeverOne my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter.

⁵Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, 'Blessed be ForeverOne, for I am rich;' and their own shepherds don't pity them.

⁶For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," says ForeverOne; "but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them." ⁷So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called "Favor," and the other I called "Union," and I fed the flock.

⁸I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

⁹Then I said, "I will not feed you. What dies, let it die; and what is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other's flesh." ¹⁰I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.

¹¹It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the word of ForeverOne.

¹²I said to them, "If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them." So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

¹³ForeverOne said to me, "Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!" I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the house of ForeverOne.

¹⁴Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

¹⁵ForeverOne said to me, "Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

¹⁶For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor feed what is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.

¹⁷Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!"

Zechariah Chapter 12

¹An oracle. The word of ForeverOne concerning Israel. ForeverOne, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says: ²"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem.

³In that day, I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.

⁴In that day," says ForeverOne, "I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.

⁵The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in ForeverOne of Armies their God.' ⁶In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.

⁷ForeverOne also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.

⁸In that day ForeverOne will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of ForeverOne before them.

⁹In that day, I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

¹⁰I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

¹¹In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

¹²The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; ¹³the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart; ¹⁴all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

Zechariah Chapter 13

¹"In that day there will be a spring opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

²It will come to pass in that day, says ForeverOne of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.

³When anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, 'You must die, because you speak lies in the name of ForeverOne;' and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.

⁴In that day, the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive: ⁵but he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.' ⁶One will say to him, 'What are these wounds between your arms?' Then he will answer, 'Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.' ⁷"Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me," says ForeverOne of Armies. "Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

⁸In all the land," says ForeverOne, "two parts in it will be cut off and die; but the third will be left in it.

⁹I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'ForeverOne is my God.'"

Zechariah Chapter 14

¹Behold, a day of ForeverOne comes, when your spoil will be divided in your midst.

²For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

³Then ForeverOne will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

⁴His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

⁵You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. ForeverOne my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.

⁶In that day there will not be light, cold, or frost.

⁷It will be a unique day which is known to ForeverOne; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.

⁸In that day living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.

⁹ForeverOne will be King over all the earth. In that day ForeverOne will be one, and his name one.

¹⁰All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses.

¹¹Men will dwell in it, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely.

¹²This will be the plague with which ForeverOne will strike all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.

¹³In that day a great panic from ForeverOne will be among them; and they will lay hold everyone on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor.

¹⁴Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.

¹⁵So will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey, and of all the animals that will be in those camps, as that plague.

¹⁶Everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, ForeverOne of Armies, and to keep the feast of tents.

¹⁷It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn't go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, ForeverOne of Armies, on them there will be no rain.

¹⁸If the family of Egypt doesn't go up, and doesn't come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which ForeverOne will strike the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents.

¹⁹This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents.

²⁰In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, "HOLY TO ForeverOne;" and the pots in ForeverOne's house will be like the bowls before the altar.

²¹Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to ForeverOne of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of ForeverOne of Armies.

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