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Zechariah 1 - RWB Paraphrase (21 V)
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Zechariah's Night Visions
1 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo saying, 2 "The LORD was very angry with your fathers." 3 Now He is saying, "Return to Me, that I may return to you. 4 "Do not be like your fathers, who were repeatedly asked to turn from their evil ways, but they would not listen. 5 "Where are your fathers now? And where are the prophets? Do they live forever"? 6 "Did not My words and decrees, which I commanded My servants the prophets to say, overtake your forefathers. Then the people repented and said, "The LORD God has done to us what our ways and practices deserved, just as He said He would.

. 7 On the twenty fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, as follows: 8 during the night I had a vision of a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees which were in the ravine. Behind him were red, sorrel and white horses. 9 I said, "Lord, what are these. The angel beside me said that he would explain it to me." 10 Then the man standing among the myrtle trees said, "These have been sent by the LORD to patrol the earth.

11 Then they spoke to the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees and said, "We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is peaceful and quiet. 12 Then the angel of the LORD said, "LORD of hosts, how long will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and from the cities of Judah, which You have been angry with these seventy years"? 13 The LORD answered gracious and comforting words to the angel who was beside me.

14 So the angel who was beside me said to me, "Proclaim what the LORD of hosts says, 'I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and Zion.'" 15 "And I am very angry with the nations that now feel secure. I was only a little angry at first, but they have added to their calamity." 16 "Therefore, the LORD says, 'I will return to Jerusalem with compassion, and My house will be built in it. And a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem." 17 "Proclaim that the LORD of Hosts says, 'Once again My cities will overflow with prosperity. The LORD will once again comfort Zion, and choose Jerusalem."

18 I lifted my eyes and saw four horns. 19 I asked the angel, "What are these?" He said, "These are the horns which scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem." 20 Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen. 21 I asked what they were coming to do? He said, "These are the horns which scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head. The craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter its people."

Zechariah 2 - RWB Paraphrase (13 V)
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Zechariah Sees A Man With A Measuring Stick
1 I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line. 2 I asked, "Where are you going?" He answered, "To measure the width and length of Jerusalem." 3 As the angel who had been speaking with me was going out, another angel came to meet him. 4 He said to the angel leaving me, "Go back to that man and say to him, 'Jerusalem will be inhabited without walls because of the great number of people and animals within it.'" 5 "For the LORD will be a wall of fire around her, and a glory in her midst." 6 The LORD declares, "Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north, for I have scattered you to the four winds of heaven." 7 "Come, you who live in Babylon! O Zion! Escape."

8 For thus says the LORD of hosts, "After He has honored me, He is sending me against the nations which plunder you, for he who touches you, touches the apple of His eye." 9 "I will surely raise my hand against them so that they will be plundered by their slaves. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me." 10 "Sing for joy and be glad, O daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell in your midst, " declares the LORD. 11 "Many nations will join themselves to the LORD in that day and become His people. Then I will dwell in your midst, and you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me to you." 12 "The LORD will possess Judah as His portion in the holy land, and choose Jerusalem again." 13 "Be still before the LORD, all mankind, because He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling."

Zechariah 3 - RWB Paraphrase (10 V)
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Zachariah Sees The High Priest
1 Then I was shown Joshua, the high priest, standing before the angel of the LORD. Satan stood at his right hand to accuse him. 2 The LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, Satan! Indeed, the LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?"

3 Joshua was wearing filthy garments as he stood before the angel. 4 The angel said to those standing by, "Remove his filthy clothes." Then he said to Joshua, "See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put clean beautiful garments on you." 5 Then I said, "Put a clean turban on his head." So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him, while the angel of the LORD stood by.

6 The angel of the LORD admonished Joshua, saying, 7 "The LORD of hosts says, 'If you will walk in My ways and perform My service, then you will also govern My house and have charge of My courts. I will grant you free access among these who are standing here.'." 8 "Joshua, you are the high priest. You and your friends who sit at the front, represent the One I am going to bring who is My servant the Branch."

9 "Behold, I have set a stone before Joshua. It is a stone with seven eyes. I will engrave an inscription on it, and I will remove the iniquity of the land in one day." 10 "In that day each of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and fig tree, " declares the LORD of hosts.

Zechariah 4 - RWB Paraphrase (14 V)
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Zachariah Sees The Golden Lampstand
1 Then the angel who had talked with me returned and wakened me. It seemed like I had been asleep. 2 He asked me, "What do you see?" I said, "I see a lampstand made of gold. It has a bowl at its top and seven lamps, each one having a spout." 3 "And there are two olive trees next to it on either side of the bowl." 4 Then I asked the angel, "What are these, my lord?" 5 He answered me, saying, "Don't you know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord." 6 He said, "This is what the LORD says to Zerubbabel, 'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of Hosts.'" 7 "What is a mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel it will be leveled. And he will bring out the capstone accompanied by shouts of God's blessing on it!"

8 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 9 "Zerubbabel has laid the foundation of this house, and he will finish it. By this you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent me to you."

10 "Who has despised the day of small things? These seven will be glad when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These seven are the eyes of the LORD which range to and for throughout the earth."

11 Then I asked the angel, "What are the two olive trees on either side of the lampstand?" 12 And I asked a second time, "What are the two olive branches beside the golden pipes which empty out their golden oil?" 13 In answer, he said to me, "Don't you know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord." 14 Then he said, "These are the two anointed ones who stand by the LORD of the whole earth."

Zechariah 5 - RWB Paraphrase (11 V)
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Zachariah Sees A Flying Scroll
1 I looked up and I saw a flying scroll. 2 The angel asked me what I saw? I said, "I see a flying scroll." It was thirty feet long and fifteen feet in width. 3 He said to me, "This is the curse that is going out over the whole land. According to what it says on one side of the scroll, every thief will be banished, and on the other side it says that everyone who swears falsely will be banished." 4 "The LORD of hosts declares, 'I will send it into the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name. It will remain in his house and destroy it, both timbers and stones.'."

5 The angel who had spoken with me went out and said, "Look up and see what appears." 6 I looked and asked what it was? He said, "This a measuring basket holding the iniquity of the people throughout the land." 7 There was a lead cover on it that was lifted up so that I could see a woman sitting inside. 8 The angel said, "This is wickedness," and pushing her back into the basket, he closed the heavy lid over her.

9 I looked up and saw two women coming with the wind in their wings. Their wings were large like stork's wings. They came and lifted up the basket between heaven and earth. 10 I asked the angel, "Where are they taking her?" 11 He said, "To build a temple for her in Babylon, where after it has been prepared for her, she will sit on her own pedestal."

Zechariah 6 - RWB Paraphrase (15 V)
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Zachariah Sees Four Chariots
1 I turned and as I lifted my eyes, I saw four chariots come from between two mountains of brass. 2 The first chariot was pulled by red horses. The second by black horses. 3 The third chariot was pulled by white horses and the fourth by powerful dappled horses.

4 I asked the angel beside me, "What are these, my lord?" 5 The angel replied, "These are the four spirits of heaven, going out to stand before the LORD of all the earth." 6 "The black horses go to the north country, and the white horses follow after them. The dapple horses go to the south country." 7 "These powerful dapple horses are eager to walk to and for throughout the earth." And He said, "Go, patrol the earth." So they did as He directed. 8 Then He cried out, saying, "See, those going to the north have appeased My wrath in that land."

The Crowning Of Joshua
9 The word of the LORD came to me again, saying, 10 "Take an offering from the exiles, from Heldai, Tobijah and Jedaiah, who have come from Babylon. You shall go immediately to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah." 11 "Take the silver and gold they have brought, and make an ornate crown to set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest." 12 Say to him, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Behold, a man whose name is Branch, will branch out from where He is, and He will build the temple of the LORD.'" 13 "He will be clothed with majesty and will sit on His throne and rule. He will also be a priest on his throne, and there will be harmony between the two positions He holds.'" 14 "The crown will be a reminder in the temple of the LORD to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah and Hen the son of Zephaniah." 15 "Those who are far off will come and build the temple of the LORD. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. This will take place if you obey the LORD your God in every way."

Zechariah 7 - RWB Paraphrase (14 V)
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The People Are Urged To Be Just And Merciful
1 In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chisleu. 2 The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech, along with their men, to entreat the LORD. 3 They spoke to the priests of the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, "Should we mourn and fast in the fifth month, as we have done for these many years?" 4 Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, 5 "Ask all the people of the land of the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?" 6 "When you eat and drink, don't you do this for yourselves?" 7 "Shouldn't you have obeyed the words which the LORD proclaimed through the former prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?"

8 Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah saying, 9 "This is what the LORD of hosts says, 'Administer true justice, showing mercy and compassion to one another.'" 10 "And do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the stranger or the poor. Do not devise evil against each other." 11 "But they refused to pay attention, stubbornly turning their backs and closing their ears." 12 "Their hearts were like flint so that they would not hear the law or the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. For this reason great wrath came from the LORD of hosts." 13 "Since they would not listen to Me, when they called to Me, I would not listen," says the LORD. 14 "I scattered them like a wind blowing them among the nations they did not know. And so the pleasant land they left became desolate."

Zechariah 8 - RWB Paraphrase (23 V)
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Judah Will Be Blessed
1 The word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, 2 "I am very jealous for Zion. My jealousy is evidenced by My great wrath." 3 "I will return to Zion and dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts will be called the Holy Mountain." 4 "Old men and women will once again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each man with his staff in his hand because of his age." 5 "Lots of boys and girls will play in the streets." 6 "If it seems too marvelous to the remnant of this people at this time, should it seem marvelous to Me?" Declares the LORD of hosts. 7 "Behold, I am going to save My people from the nation in the east and from the nation in the west." 8 "And I will bring them back to live in Jerusalem. They shall be My people, and I will be their God in truth and righteousness."

9 "Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Let your hands be strong, you who are listening in these days to the words of the prophets, who spoke on the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be finished.'." 10 "Before those days there was no wage for a man or his beast. Neither was there peace because of his enemies when I set men against each other." 11 "But now I will no longer treat the remnant of this people as I did in former days," says the LORD of Hosts. 12 "There will be peace for the seed to grow, and the vine will bear it's fruit. The land will yield its produce and the heavens will give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all of this." 13 "It will come about that just as you were once a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you that you may become a blessing. Do not fear. Be strong."

14 "For thus says the LORD of Hosts, 'Just as I thought to punish you when your fathers provoked Me to wrath, so that I would not relent,'." 15 "So I have proposed to do good to Jerusalem and the house of Judah. Do not be afraid!" 16 "Here is what you must do. Speak the truth to each other. Judge with truth and peace within your gates." 17 "Let no one devise evil in his heart against someone else. Do not commit perjury. This is what I hate, " declares the LORD.

18 The word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, 19 "The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become a joyful time for you, a time of feasting and of cheerfulness for the house of Judah. So love truth and peace."

20 "This is what the LORD of hosts says, 'Many peoples from many cities will yet come,'" 21 "The inhabitants of one city will go to another, saying, 'Let us go to entreat the LORD's favor.'." 22 "Mighty nations and many peoples will come to seek the LORD of Hosts in Jerusalem and pray before the LORD." 23 "Thus says the LORD of Hosts, 'In those days ten men from other nations will take hold of a Jew's garment, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard the LORD is with you.'."

Zechariah 9 - RWB Paraphrase (17 V)
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A Message After The Temple Is Completed
1 The word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach and will rest upon Damascus, for the eyes of men and all the tribes of Israel are on the LORD. 2 This includes Hamath on its border, and Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise. 3 For Tyre built herself a fortress and piled up silver like dust, and gold like mire in the streets. 4 But the LORD will dispossessed her of her wealth, casting it in the sea, and consume her with fire. 5 Ashkelon will see this and be afraid. So will Gaza, as will Ekron, for her hope has been put to shame. The king of Gaza will perish, and Ashkelon will be without inhabits. 6 Foreigners will occupy Ashdod, for I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. 7 I will take the blood from their mouths, and the forbidden food from between their teeth. Those who are left will belong to our God and become leaders in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites. 8 I will defend my house against marauding forces. Never again will an oppressor overrun my people, for I am keeping watch. 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you. He is just and endowed with salvation. He is humble, mounted on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

10 I will take away the chariots from Ephraim, and Jerusalem will have no war horses. The bow for battle will be broken. He will proclaim peace to the nations and His rule will extend from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth. 11 Because of the blood of My covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the prison pit.

12 Return to your fortress, O prisoners of hope. Even now I am announcing that I will restore twice as much to you. 13 I will bend Judah as My bow and fill it with Ephraim. I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against the sons of Greece, and make you like a warrior's sword. 14 Then the LORD will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning. He will blow His trumpet and march in the whirlwinds of the south. 15 The LORD of hosts will defend them. And they will devour and trample on the sling stones, drink and be boisterous as though with wine. They will be filled like a sacrificial basin, and drenched like the corners of the altar. 16 And the LORD their God will save them in that day as the flock of His people, for they are as the stones of a crown, sparkling in His land. 17 They will be comely and beautiful. Grain will make the young men thrive, and new wine the young women.

Zechariah 10 - RWB Paraphrase (12 V)
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Israel And Judah Are Lost Sheep
1 Ask the LORD, who makes the clouds to give the spring rains for each man's vegetation. 2 The idols cannot give rain or anything else. Their comfort is in vain. People who follow them wander like sheep without a shepherd. 3 "I am angry with the shepherds and I will punish the leaders, for the LORD of hosts has visited His flock. The house of Judah will be like His majestic horse in battle."

4 From Judah will come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, and from him every ruler. 5 Together they will be mighty, trampling over the enemy in the mire of the streets in battle. Because the LORD is with them, they will fight and overthrow their enemies. 6 "I will strengthen the house of Judah, and save the house of Joseph. And I will bring them back because I have had compassion on them. They will be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the LORD their God and I will answer them."

7 "Ephraim will become mighty, and their hearts will be glad as if from wine. Their children will see this and be joyful. Their hearts will rejoice in the LORD." 8 "I will signal for them and gather them in. Surely I will redeem them, and they will be as numerous as before." 9 "Where I have scattered them in far countries, they will remember Me. They and their children will come back." 10 "I will bring them from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them into Gilead and Lebanon until there is no room left." 11 "They will pass through the sea of their trouble, and the surging sea will be subdued. The depths of the Nile will dry up. Assyria's pride will be brought down and Egypt's scepter will be gone." 12 "And I will give them My strength, and they will walk in My name," declares the LORD.

Zechariah 11 - RWB Paraphrase (17 V)
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The Two Shepherds
1 Open your doors, O Lebanon, that a fire may consume your cedars. 2 Wail, O fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, the stately trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan. The dense forest has been cut down! 3 There is the sound of shepherds wailing, for the glory O the forest is ruined. The young lions roar, for the pride of the Jordan has been laid waste.

4 The LORD says, "Pasture the flock that is doomed to slaughter." 5 "Those who buy them go without punishment. Those who sell them thank the LORD for converting their property to money. Their own shepherds have no pity for their fate."

6 "I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land," declares the LORD."I will cause the men to fall under the power of another and to their king. These will destroy the land no one can do anything about it."

7 "So I pastured the flock doomed to affliction and slaughter. I took two staffs for myself. I called the one staff, Favor and the other I called Union, and I pastured the flock." 8 "I got rid of the three shepherds in one month, for I was impatient with them. They wearied me." 9 "Then I decided to not pasture what was destined to die. Let it die. And let whatever is left eat one another." 10 "I cut my staff named Favor in pieces to demonstrate My covenant which the people had broken." 11 "Then they realized that this was the word of the LORD." 12 "I said to them, 'If it seems good to you, give me my wages, but if not, never mind!' So they gave me thirty shekels of silver for my wages."

13 Then the LORD said to me, "Throw your wages to the potter, to show the magnificent price of which I was valued by them." So I threw the thirty pieces of silver to the potter in the LORD's house.

14 Then I cut my second staff, Union, showing the break between the brotherhood of Judah and Israel. 15 The LORD said to me, "Take up the equipment of a foolish shepherd." 16 "Behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or sustain the one standing. He will instead devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs." 17 "Woe to the worthless shepherd Who leaves the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! His arm will be totally withered and his right eye blind."

Zechariah 12 - RWB Paraphrase (14 V)
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God Will Destroy His People's Enemies
1 This is what the LORD says concerning Israel. He is the one who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him. 2 "Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples. And when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah." 3 "In that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. Those who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it." 4 "The LORD says, "In that day I will strike every horse with panic and his rider with madness. But I will watch over the house of Judah while striking every horse of the peoples with blindness. 5 "Then the leaders of Judah will say in their hearts, 'The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the LORD of hosts is their God.'"

6 "On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume right and left all the surrounding peoples, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place." 7 "The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be greater then Judah." 8 "On that day the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD going before them." 9 "And in that day I will begin to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem." 10 "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 mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, bitterly grieving as for a firstborn son." 11 "There will be great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo." 12 "The land will mourn with each clan mourning by itself, their wives by themselves, the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives," 13 "the family of the house of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves, the family of the Shimeites by itself and their wives by themselves," 14 "all the families that remain, every family by itself and their wives by themselves."

Zechariah 13 - RWB Paraphrase (9 V)
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A Fountain Of Cleansing
1 "On that day a fountain will be provided to the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. It will cleanse them from sin and impurity." 2 "In that day," declares the LORD of hosts, "I will cut off the names of the idols from the land so that they are no longer remembered. And I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land." 3 "If anyone still prophesies, his father and mother will say to him, 'You shall not live, for you have spoken falsely in the name of the LORD.' And they will pierce him through." 4 "In that day each prophet shall be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and he will not wear a hairy robe in an effort to deceive." 5 Each one will say, "I am not a prophet. I till the ground, for I was sold as a slave in my youth." 6 "And he will be asked, 'What are these wounds in your hands?' And he will answer, 'I was wounded in the house of my friends.'"

7 "Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is close to me!" Declares the LORD of hosts."Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered. I will turn my hand against the little ones." 8 The LORD declares, "In all the land, two parts will be cut off with only a third part left." 9 "I will bring the third part through the fire, refining it as silver is refined. I will test it as gold is tested. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. They are My people, and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'."

Zechariah 14 - RWB Paraphrase (21 V)
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The Lord Will Rule
1 The day is coming when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you. 2 I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem. The city will be captured and the houses plundered. The women will be ravished and half the city will go into exile. The rest of the people will remain in the city. 3 Then the LORD will fight a battle against those nations. 4 His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which is east of Jerusalem. It will split from east to west making a very large valley. Half the mountain will move north and the other half to the south. 5 The valley will reach to Azel and you will flee as you did before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD will come with all His Holy Ones. 6 In that day there will be neither cold or frost. 7 It will be a unique day known only to the LORD having neither day or night. Then at evening there will be light.

8 In that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half toward the eastern sea and half toward the western sea. This will be in summer as well as in winter.

9 The LORD will be king over all the earth with His name being the only name. 10 All the land will be changed into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem will rise and remain on its site from Benjamin's Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's wine presses. 11 People will live securely in Jerusalem and there will be no more curse.

12 The LORD will strike the people with a plague who made war with Jerusalem. Their flesh, eyes and tongue will rot while they stand. 13 A great panic from the LORD will fall on them in one day, and they will lift their hands against each other. 14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem, and the gold, silver and garments of the surrounding nations will be gathered in great abundance. 15 A similar plague will strike the horses, mules, camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.

16 Then the survivors from the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, they will have no rain. 18 If the Egyptian 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 nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

20 And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, "Holy to the LORD." And the pots in the house of the LORD shall be as the bowls before the altar. 21 Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the LORD of hosts. All who come to sacrifice will take some of the pots and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

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