9 1 2 According to some MSS., him. and he 'that is feeble among them at that day Or, that shall be as David; and the house of David stumbleth shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that 10 come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look unto me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness II for his firstborn. In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. 12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of 13 Nathan apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and 14 their wives apart; all the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart. 13 I In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of 2 Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of 3 the land. And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through 4 when he prophesieth. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he prophesieth; neither shall they wear a hairy mantle to deceive: but he shall say, I am no prophet, 5 I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondman from my youth. And one 6 shall say unto him, What are these wounds 1 Heb. hands. between thine 'arms? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. 2 Or, lovers 7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. And it shall come 8 to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring 9 the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, The LORD is my God. Behold, a day of the LORD cometh, when thy 1 14 spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem 2 to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished: and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then shall the LORD go forth, and 3 fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain 4 shall remove toward the north, and half of it 5 toward the south. And ye shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azel: 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 holy ones 6 with thee. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be 'with brightness 7 and with gloom: but it shall be one day which is known unto the LORD; not day, and not night but it shall come to pass, that at evening time 8 there shall be light. And it shall come to pass. in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea: in 9 summer and in winter shall it be. And the LORD shall be king over all the earth in that day shall the LORD be one, and his name one. 10 All the land shall be turned as the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she shall be lifted up, and shall dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower 11 of Hananel unto the king's winepresses. And 6 men shall dwell therein, and there shall be no more 'curse; but Jerusalem shall dwell safely. Or, ban 12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great 'tumult from the LORD shall be among 7Or, them; and they shall lay hold every one on the discomfiture hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise 14 up against the hand of his neighbour. And 1 Or, at Judah also shall fight 'against Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. And so shall be 15 the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in those camps, as this plague. And 16 it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. And it shall be, that whoso of 17 all the families of the earth goeth not up unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, upon them there shall be no rain. And 18 if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, "neither shall it be upon them; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the nations that go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. This shall be the punishment of 19 Egypt, and the 'punishment of all the nations that go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. In that day shall there be upon the bells of 20 the horses, HOLY UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem 21 and in Judah shall be holy unto the LORD of hosts and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in ▲ Or, trafficker that day there shall be no more a 'Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts. 2 Or, shall upon them the Syr. have, up 3 Or, sin MALACHI. 1 1 I THE 'burden of the word of the LORD to Or, oracle Israel by 'Malachi. I 2 Or, my messenger Or, Is not Esau...? yet 4 Or, Though Edom say 5 Or, as 2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye 6 A son honoureth his father, and a servant impoverished 7 Or, over |