Restoration of Judah. d about, when they shall be in the siege both | and shall be in bitterness for him against Judah and against Jerusalem. that is in bitterness for his firstborn 11 In that day shall there be "mourning in Jerusalem, as the m of Hadadrimmon in the valley of M 3 ¶ And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. 4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and open his rider with madness: and I will blindness. 5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God. 6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. 7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah. Or, and also against Judah shall he be which shall be in siege against Jeru salem. d ver. 4, 6, 8, 9, 11. & ch. 13. 1. & 14. 4, 6, 8, 9, 13. e Matt. f Ps. 76. 6. Ez. 38. 4. 3 Or, There is strength to me and to the Joel 3. 16. g Obad. 18. h Joel 3. 10. k Jer. 31. 9. & 50. 4. Rev. 1 7. 2 Chr. 35. 24. 21. 44. i lag. 2. 22. ver. 3. 1 John 19. 34, 37. o 2 Kings 23. 23. • Or, abject, Ez. 39. 29. m Jer. 6. 26. Am. S. 10. 5 12 P And the land shall mourn, ev ily apart; the family of the house apart, and their wives apart; the fi the house of Nathan apart, and the apart; 13 The family of the house of Le and their wives apart; the family o apart, and their wives apart; 14 All the families that remai family apart, and their wives apart. they shall no more be remembere also I will cause the prophets and clean spirit to pass out of the land. 3 And it shall come to pass, the any his mother that begat him shall s shall yet prophesy, then his fat him, Thou shalt not live; for thous lies in the name of the LORD: and hi and his mother that begat him shai him through when he prophesieth. 4 And it shall come to pass in th that the prophets shall be ashame one of his vision, when he hath prop neither shall they wear a rough to deceive: 3 5h But he shall say, I am no pro am a husbandman; for man taught keep cattle from my youth. p Matt. 24. 30. Rev. 1. 7. q 2 Sam. 5. 14. Luke 3. 31. The coming of Messiah. k ZECHARIAH, XIV. bitt 6 And one shall say unto him, What are fhese wounds in thine hands? Then he hall answer, Those with which I was sarvounded in the house of my friends. in the 7 ¶ Awake, O sword, against 'my Shepderd, and against the man that is my felthat is my felow, saith the LORD of hosts:' smite the Sheperd, and the sheep shall be scattered and will turn mine hand upon the little ones. 8 And it shall come to pass, that in all he land, saith the LORD, two parts therein hall be cut off and die; " but the third shall e left therein. the art: the ires: TER n m 2 The glory of his kingdom. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of 'the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the 'earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. 3 k h 4 6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark : 7 But it shall be 'one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at 'evening time it shall be light. 8 And it shall be in that day, that living mwaters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. 9 And the LORD shall be "king over all the earth in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. 10 All the land shall be turned Pas a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem and it shall be lifted and in up, 9 8 Phil. 2. 6. n Rom. ch. 10. 6. Joel 2. 31. Acts 2. 20. b Joel 3. 2. e Joel 3. 12, 14. f Am. 1. 1. c Is. r Neh. 3. 1. 1 Or, my t Jer. 23. 6. 2 Or, when he shall touch the valley of the mountains to the place HAP. XIV. -a Ie. 13. 9. 16. d See Ez. 11. 23. intains. p Is. 40. 4. q ch. 12. 6. abide. s Jer. 31. 40. Or, compassed. 8 Or, & 12. 39. Jer. 31. 38. u 1 Sam. 14. 15, 20. Heb. h Joel 3. 11. Rev. 21. 23. n Dan. 2. shall abide. 9 Or, shall x Judg. 7. Holiness unto the Lord. y smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 14 And 10 Judah also shall fight "at Je- | shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will rusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. 15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague. 16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem, shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. b 17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. 18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, 12d that have no rain; there 19 This shall be the 13 punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of taber nacles. e the 20In that day shall there be upon 14 bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNT THE LORD; and the pots in the Lo house shall be like the bowls before t altar. 21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD hosts; and all they that sacrifice shall com and take of them, and seethe therein: a in that day there shall be no more ti f Canaanite in the house of the LORD hosts. CHAPTER I. MALACHI. [B. C. 397.] Israel's ingratitude. 6 Their polluted offerings, 12 and contempt of God's worship. [B. c. 397.] THE HE burden of the word of the LORD to 2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, 3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. 4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border 8 And if ye offer the blind for s CHAP. I.Heb. by the hand of Malachi. a Dent. 7. 8: Obad, 10, t b Rom. 9. 13. c Jer. 49. 18. Ez. 35. 3, 4, 7, 9, 14, 15. YL h Deut. 13. Deut. 14 Who is there even among you that shut the doors for nought? "neither kindle fire on mine altar for nought. e no pleasure in you, saith the LORD sts, neither will I accept an offering ir hand. For, from the rising of the sun even he going down of the same, my name e great among the Gentiles; and in place incense shall be offered unto ame, and a pure offering: for my shall be great among the heathen, the LORD of hosts. But ye have profaned it, in that ye The table of the LORD is polluted; le fruit thereof, even his meat, is conible. Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness and ye have snuffed at it, saith the of hosts; and ye brought that which ›rn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ought an offering: should I accept f your hand? saith the LORD. 8 But cursed be the deceiver, which in his flock a male, and voweth, and iceth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: I am a great King, saith the LORD of and my name is dreadful among the The priests are reproved. lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. 3 Behold, I will 'corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it. 3 4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. 5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name. 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did 'turn many away from iniquity. 7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. h 10 Have we not all one father? " hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? 11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. 12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out 7 scatter. Or, it shall take you away to it. Ez. 34. 25. & 37. 26. d Deut. 33. 8, 9. James 5. 20. g Lev. 10. 11. Deut. 17. 9, 10. & 24. 8. Ezra 7. 10. Jer. 18. 18. Hag. 2. 11, 12. h Gal. 4. 14. * Or, fall in the law. i 1 Sam. 2. 17. Jer. 18. 15. k Neh. 13, 29. 11 Sam. 2. 30. against. Heb. accepted faces. o Ezra 9. 1. & 10. 2. Neh. 13. 23. waketh, and him that answereth. |
