Calvin's Version of Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi
Translation: Habakkuk
1 the burden which Habakkuk the Prophet saw: 2 How long, Jehovah, shall I cry, And thou wilt not hear? And cry aloud to thee of violence, And thou wilt not save?
3 Why showest thou me iniquity, And makest me to see trouble? And why are violence and plunder in my sight, And he who excites strife and contention? (19)
4 Therefore dissolved is the law, And judgment does not continually go forth; For the wicked surrounds the just, Therefore go forth does perverted judgment. (21)
5 Look ye among the Gentiles and see, And be astonished, be astonished; For a work will I work in your days, Which ye will not believe, though it be told you: 6 For behold, I will rouse the Chaldeans---A nation bitter and hasty, Which shall march through the breadths of the earth, To possess habitations not its own: 7 Terrible and fearful shall it be, From itself shall its judgment and its dignity proceed: 8 And swifter than leopards shall be its horses, And fiercer than the evening wolves; And numerous shall be its horsemen; And its horsemen from far shall come, They shall fly as an eagle hastening to devour: (30)
9 The whole of it for booty shall come; The aspect of their faces will be like the east-wind; And he will gather captives like the sand: 10 And at kings he will laugh, And princes shall be a scorn to him: Every fortress he will scorn, He will gather dust and take it: 11 Then will he change his spirit, And pass through and act impiously, Ascribing this his power to his god. (37)
12 Art not thou, Jehovah, from the beginning, my God? My holy One! we shall not die: Thou, Jehovah, for judgment hast set him; And thou strong One, for correction hast established him.
13 Pure art thou of eyes, so as not to behold evil, And on trouble thou canst not
look:---Why lookest thou on transgressors, And takest no notice, when the ungodly devours One more righteous than himself?
14 Thou makest man like the fish of the sea, Like the reptile, which is without a leader: (46)
15 The whole by his hook will he draw up, Collect into his drag, and gather into his net; He will therefore rejoice and exult: (48)
16 Hence sacrifice will he to his drag, And incense will he offer to his net; For through them fat will be his portion, And his meat will be rich.---
17 Shall he therefore extend his drag, And continue to slay the nations, so as not to spare them?
Translation: Habakkuk 2
1 On my watch-tower will I stand, And set myself on a citadel; And I will watch to see what he may say to me, And what I may answer to the reproof given me.
2 Then answer me did Jehovah and said, Write the vision, and make it plain on tables, That run may he who reads it; 3 For yet the vision shall be for an appointed time, And will speak at the end, and will not deceive: If it tarry, wait for it; (66) for coming it will come, and will not delay.
4 Behold the elated! not right is his soul within him; But the just, by his faith, shall he live.'' (72)
5 Yea, truly! as by wine, transgress does the proud man, And he will not rest; (87)
For he enlarges as the grave his soul, And is like to death, and is not satisfied; Yea, he collects to himself all nations, And heaps together for himself all the people.
6 Shall not all these take up against him a parable, And against him an enigmatical taunt, and say,---``Ho! he multiplies what is not his own! how long! And he accumulates on himself thick clay!
7 Shall they not suddenly rise up who shall bite thee, And awake, who shall torment thee? And shalt not thou become tramplings to them?
8 As thou has spoiled many nations, Spoil thee shall all the remnant of the people, On account of men's blood, and of violence To the land, to the city and to all its inhabitants.
9 Ho! he covets an evil covetousness to his house, In order to set on high his nest, That he may keep himself from the hand of evil!
10 Thou hast provided shame for thine own house, By cutting off many nations, And thou hast sinned against thine own soul.''
11 For the stone from the wall shall cry, 431 And the wood from the chamber shall 431Calvin makes here a change in the discourse; but the whole to the end of the chapter may be viewed as the parable or the taunt mentioned in verse 6, and the particle Ho! may be retained
answer it,---
12 ``Ho! he builds a town by blood, And sets up a city by iniquity!''
13 Behold, shall nothing be from Jehovah of hosts? Hence labour shall the people in the fire, And weary themselves in vain; 14 For filled shall be earth with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah, As the waters cover the sea.
15 Woe to him who gives his friend drink!---Uniting thy heat, thou makes them also to drink, That thou mayest look on their nakedness. (112)
16 Thou art filled with shame for the sake of glory; Drink thou also, and be thou uncovered: Poured forth to thee shall be the cup of Jehovah's right hand, And shameful spewing shall be on thy glory: 17 For overwhelm thee shall the violence done to Lebanon, And the spoiling of beasts, which terrified them; On account of men's blood, and of violence To the land, to the city, and to all its inhabitants.
18 What avails the graven image? For graven it hath its framer, Even the molten image and the teacher of falsehood; For trust does the framer in his own work, when he makes dumb idols. (122)
19 Woe to him who saith to wood, ``Awake;'' And ``Arise,'' to a dumb stone;---it will teach: Behold, it is covered with gold and silver; And there is no spirit in the midst of it. (124) But Jehovah is in his holy Temple: Silent at his presence let the whole earth be. instead of Wo. The taunt seems to have been formed so as to have been especially suitable to be used by the Jews. By regarding the passage in this light, we can understand the sudden change of person in verse 16, if the proposed emendation be disapproved; for we see the same in the former portions of the "taunt." See 6 and 7, and also 9 and 10. That the reader may see the whole of this passage, containing the "taunt," in the light in which I am now fully inclined to regard it, it shall be presented to him complete:— 6. Will not these, every one of them, Raise up a proverb concerning him, And a taunt, enigmas for him, and say,—"Ho! He increases what is not his! how long! And he accumulates on himself thick clay!— 7. Will they not suddenly rise up—thy biters, And awake—thy tormentors, And thou become booties to them? 8. For thou hast spoiled many nation, And spoil thee shall all the remnant of the people, On account of men's blood, and of violence To the land, to the city, and to all its inhabitants." 9. "Ho! he has coveted an evil covetousness to his house, To set on high his nest, In order to save himself from the hand of evil!— 10. Thou hast consulted shame to thine house, By cutting off many nations And by sinning against thine own soul: 11. For the stone—from the wall it cries, And the beam—from the woodwork it answers it,— 12. 'Ho! he builds a town by blood, And sets up a city by oppression!'— 13. Shall nothing be, lo! From Jehovah of hosts? Yea, labor shall the people for the fire, And nations—for vanity shall they weary themselves: 14. For filled shall be the earth With the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah, Like the waters which spread over the sea." 15. "Ho! he gives drink to his neighbour!—Thou addest thy bottle and also strong drink, In order to look on their nakedness! 16. Thou hast been filled with reproach rather than with glory: Drink thou also, and be uncovered; Come round to thee shall the cup of the right hand of Jehovah; And shameful spewing shall be on thy glory: 17. For the violence done to Lebanon—it shall overwhelm thee, And the plunder of beasts—it shall rend thee; On account of men's blood, and of violence To the land, to the city, and to all its inhabitants." 18. "What avails the graven image! For its graver—he forms it—Even the molten image and the teacher of falsehood: Yea, trust in it does the former of its form, After having made dumb idols! 19. Ho! he saith to the wood, 'Arise, Awake;' To the dumb stone, 'It will teach?' Behold it! covered it is with gold and silver, Yet there is no spirit within it! But Jehovah is in his holy temple: Silent at his presence let the whole earth be." The "taunt" may be deemed as terminating at the end of the 17th verse; but I regard it as continuing to the end of the chapter. The word "neighbour," in the 15th verse, is a collective singular, meaning every neighbour: hence "their" at the end of the verse. The same may be said of "image" in verse 18, which means every image or images, as "idols" are mentioned afterwards. Such are common instances in the Prophets. "It will teach," in verse 19, most evidently refers to "the dumb stone"—the idol; for it is expressly called "the teacher of falsehood" in verse 17.—Ed
Translation: Habakkuk 3
1 The prayer of Habakkuk the Prophet respecting ignorances: 2 Jehovah! I heard thy voice, and was terrified; Jehovah! thy work in the midst of the years, revive it; In the midst of the years, make it known; In wrath thy mercy remember. (137)
3 God! from Teman he came; And the holy One from mount Paran: Selah: Cover the heaven did his glory; Of his praise full was the earth: 4 And brightness,---as the light it was; Horns,---from his hands they were; (143)
And there was the hiding of his strength: 5 Before his face walked the pestilence, And come forth did burning coals at his feet: 6 He stood, and he measured the earth; He looked, and he dissolved nations; Yea, shattered were perennial mountains, Bent down were hills of antiquity; The ways of ages were his.
7 For iniquity saw I the tents of Cushan; (150) Tremble did the curtains of the land of Midian.
8 Wert thou angry with rivers, O Jehovah? Was thine indignation against rivers?
Was thy wrath against the sea? For thou didst ride on thy horses, Thy chariots were salvation.
9 Quite bare was made thy bow: The oaths to the tribes was thy word: Selah: (155) With rivers didst thou cleave the earth.
10 See thee did mountains, they fell down; The stream of waters passed away; Utter its voice did the deep, On high did it raise its hands. (158)
11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation; At the light of thy arrows did they proceed, At the brightness of the glittering of thy spear. (160)
12 In wrath didst thou tread on the land, In anger didst thou thresh the nations: 13 Go forth didst thou for the salvation of thy people, For their salvation, with
thy Christ: Strike didst thou the head from the house of the wicked, Making bare the foundation even to the neck: (164)
14 Smite didst thou with his own staffs the head of his villages: They rushed as a whirlwind to drive me away; Their joy was to devour the poor in secret: 15 A way hast thou made in the sea for thy horses, Through the heap of great waters. (168)
16 I heard,---and tremble did my bowels, At thy voice quiver did my lips; Enter did rottenness into my bones, And within me I made a great noise; That I might rest in the day of affliction, When he ascends against the people, Who shall cut them off.
17 For the fig-tree shall not flourish, And no fruit shall be on the vines, Fail shall the produce of the olive, And the fields shall not bring forth food; cut off from the fold shall be the flock, And there shall be no ox in the stalls: 18 But I---in Jehovah will I exult, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation: 19 Jehovah, the Lord, is my strength; And he will set my feet as those of hinds, And on my high places will he make me to walk---To the leader on my beatings.
Translation: Zephaniah 1
1 The word of Jehovah, which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.
2 By removing I will remove all things from the face of the land, saith Jehovah; I will remove man and beast; 3 And I will remove the bird of heaven, And the fishes of the sea: And stumblingblocks shall be to the ungodly! And I will cut off man From the face of the land, saith
Jehovah: (190)
4 Yea, I will extend my hand upon Judah, And upon all the inhabitants of Je; And will cut off from this place the remnants of Baal, The name of its worshippers with the priests; 5 And those who worship, On their roofs, the host of heaven; And those who worship and swear by Jehovah, And swear by their own king; 6 And who turn back from following Jehovah, And who seek not Jehovah, And do not inquire of him.
7 Be silent at the presence of the Lord Jehovah! For nigh is the day of Jehovah; Yea, prepared hath Jehovah a sacrifice, He hath prepared his guests: 8 And it shall be in the day of Jehovah's sacrifice, That I will visit the princes and the king's sons, And all who wear foreign apparel; 9 And I will visit all those who dance on the threshold in that day, Who fill the house of their masters By means of rapine and fraud. (204)
10 And there shall be in that day, saith Jehovah, The voice of crying from the fish-gate, and howling from the second gate, And great breach from the hills. (212)
11 Howl ye, inhabitants of the lower part, For exterminated are the people of traffic, Cut off are all loaded with money.
12 And it shall be in that day, That I will search Jerusalem with candles, And visit
the men, congealed on their lees, Who say in their hearts,---``Good will not Jehovah do, Nor will he do evil:''
13 And their substance shall be a spoil, And their house a water; And houses shall they build and not inhabit; And plant shall they vineyards, And shall not drink the wine of them.
14 Nigh is the great day of Jehovah, Nigh and hastening quickly; The voice of Jehovah's day will cry out bitterly,---then will he be strong; (222)
15 A day of wrath shall be that day, A day of distress and of affliction, A day of tumult and of desolation, A day of darkness and of thick darkness, A day of clouds and of mist; 16 A day of trumpet and of shouting over the fortified cities and over the lofty citadels.
17 And I will straiten men, And they shall walk as the blind, Because they have done wickedly against Jehovah; And poured out shall be their blood as dust, 18 Even their silver and their gold shall not avail to deliver them, in the day of Jehovah's wrath; And by the fire of his indignation shall their land be consumed; For a consummation, and a speedy one, Will be made of all the inhabitants of the land.
Translation: Zephaniah 2
1 Gather yourselves, gather, Ye nation, not worthy of being loved; 2 Before the decree brings forth,---(As chaff shall they pass away in a day) Before it comes upon you, The fury of Jehovah's anger,---Before it comes upon you, The day of the anger of Jehovah. (232)
3 Seek Jehovah all ye meek of the land, who his judgment have sought; Seek righteousness, seek humility, It may be that ye shall be concealed In the day of Jehovah's anger.
4 For Gaza, it shall be forsaken, And Ashkelon shall be a waste; Ashod shall they at mid-day drive out, And Ekron shall be rooted up.
5 Ho! the inhabitants of the line of the sea, The nation of the Cherethites! The word of Jehovah is against you; Cannaan! the land of the Philistines! I will also exterminate thee, That there may be no inhabitant: 6 And the coast of the sea shall be a habitation For sheepcots of shepherds and folds for sheep; (242)
7 And that coast shall be for the residence of the house of Judah; Among them shall they feed; In the houses of Ashkelon shall they in the evening lie down; For visit them shall Jehovah their God, and he will restore their captivity.
8 Heard have I the reproach of Moab, And the revilings of the children of Ammon; By which they have upbraided my people; And they have extended themselves over their border: (247)
9 Therefore as I live, Saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel,---Surely Moab like
Sodom shall be, And the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, A soil for the nettle and a mine for salt, And a waste for ever; The residue of my people shall plunder them, And the remnant of my nation shall possess them.
10 This shall be to them for their pride; Because they have reproached, And exulted over the people of Jehovah of hosts.
11 Terrible will Jehovah be to them; For he will consume all the gods of the earth, And worship him shall each from his place, All the islands of the nations.---
12 Ye also Ethiopians!---Slain by my sword shall they be.
13 And extend will he his hand to the north, And he will destroy Assyria, And set
Nineveh a waste, A desolation like the desert: 14 And lie down within it shall flocks, All the beasts of the nations; Even the bittern and the owl Shall on its pillars pass the night; A voice shall sing in the window, In the door-way there shall be desolation, For he will make bare the cedar.
15 This is the exulting city! Which sat in confidence, Which said in her heart,---``I am, and there is besides me no other.'' How is she become a waste, A resting-place for beasts! Every one who shall pass by will hiss at her, he will shake his hand.
Translation: Zephaniah 3
1 Woe to the polluted and the filthy---The city which is an oppressor! (261)
2 She has not attended to the voice, She has not received correction, In Jehovah has she not trusted, To her God she has not drawn nigh!
3 Her princes within her are roaring lions, Her judges, the wolves of the evening; They break not the bones in the morning!
4 Her Prophets are vain, men of deceits; (268) Her Priests have polluted what is holy, They have subverted the law. (269)
5 Jehovah is just in the midst of her, He will not do iniquity; Every morning his judgment He brings to light,---he fails not: Yet the unjust knoweth no shame.
6 I have cut off nations, Waste have become their citadels, I have destroyed their streets, So that no one passes through; Wasted have become their cities, That there is not a man, not an inhabitant: (275)
7 I said, ``surely, thou wilt fear me, Thou wilt receive instruction;'' Then cut off should not be her habitation, However I might have visited her:---(279) Truly! they have hastened, They have corrupted all their doings!
8 Therefore look for me, saith Jehovah, Till the day when I shall rise up for the prey; For my purpose is, To gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, That I may pour upon them my wrath, The whole fury of mine anger; For with the fire of my indignation
Shall be devoured the whole earth. (281)
9 But I will then turn to the people a pure lip, That they may all call on the name of Jehovah, That they may serve him with one consent. (283)
10 Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia shall be my suppliants; The daughter of my dispersed shall bring mine offering.
11 In that day thou shalt not be ashamed on account of all thy doings, By which thou hast transgressed against me; For then will I remove from the midst of thee those who rejoice in thy pride, And thou shalt not take pride any more In my holy
mountain. (292)
12 And I will cause to remain in the midst of thee, A people afflicted and poor; And they shall trust in the name of Jehovah.
13 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, And they shall not speak falsehood, And not found in their mouth shall be a deceitful tongue; And they shall feed and lie down, And there shall be none to terrify them
14 Exult thou daughter of Sion, Exult thou Israel; Rejoice, exult with thy whole heart, Thou daughter of je: (299)
15 Removed has Jehovah thy judgments, He has turned aside thine enemies; The King of Israel, Jehovah, is in the midst of thee, Thou shalt see evil no more.
16 in that day it shall be said to je, Fear not; Sion! relaxed let not thine hands be.
17 Jehovah thy God is in the midst of thee, He is strong, he will save; He will exult over thee with joy, He will rest in his love, (304) He will exult over thee with triumph.
18 The afflicted, at the appointed time, Will I gather,---who shall be of thee; Who sustained for her reproach. (308)
19 Behold, I will destroy all thine oppressors at that time, And I will save the halting, And restore the driven away, To make them a praise and a name In the land of their reproach.
20 At that time will I restore you, At that time will I gather you; For I will make you a name and a praise among all the nations of the earth; When I shall restore your captivities, Before your eyes saith Jehovah. end of new translation of zephaniah.
Translation: Haggai 1
1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the Prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying---
2 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, saying---This people say, ``The time is not come to build the house of Jehovah.''
3 Then came the word of Jehovah, By Haggai, the Prophet, saying---
4 ``Is it time for you to dwell yourselves in your boarded houses, And this house a waste!''
5 And now thus saith Jehovah of hosts,---Apply your heart to your ways: 6 Ye have sown much, and brought in little; Ye have eaten, and were not satisfied; Ye have drank, and were not replenished; Ye have clothed yourselves, and were not warmed; And he who gains wages, Gains wages for a perforated bag. (330)
7 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts,---Apply your heart to your ways; 8 Ascend unto the mountain and bring wood, And build the house; And I will be to you propitious in it, And glorified shall I be, saith Jehovah. (333)
9 Ye have looked for much, but behold little! And ye brought it home, and I blew on it: Why is this? saith Jehovah; On account of my house, because it is waste, And ye run, each of you to his own house.
10 Therefore restrained over you Are the heavens from dew; And the earth from producing is restrained: 11 Yea, I have called for drought on the land and on the mountains, And on the corn and the wine and the oil, And on everything which the earth produces, on man and on beast, and on every labour of the hands. (338)
12 And Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high priest, and all the residue of the people, attended to
the voice of Jehovah, their God, and to the words of Haggai, the Prophet, as Jehovah their God had sent him; and the people feared Jehovah.
13 Then said Haggai, the messenger of Jehovah, according to Jehovah's message, saying to the people, ``With you am I,'' saith Jehovah.
14 And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the people; and the came and carried on the work in the Temple of Jehovah of hosts, their God, 15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. 432
432What is said in a Note in p. 347 does not apply to what Calvin says. He refers not, as I inadvertently apprehended, to the present division of the chapter, but to that adopted in the Septuagint; for this verse in that version forms the beginning of the next chapter.—Ed.
Translation: Haggai 2
1 In the seventh month, and on the twenty-first day, came the word of Jehovah to Haggai, the Prophet, saying,---
2 Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to all the residue of the people, saying,---
3 Who among you is alive, Who saw this house in its former glory, And how do ye see it now? Is it not to that as nothing in your eyes?
4 Yet now strong be thou Zerubbabel, saith Jehovah; And strong be all the people of the land; And work, for with you am I, Saith Jehovah of hosts, 5 According to the word I covenanted with you, When ye came forth from Egypt, And my Spirit shall be in the midst of you, fear ye not. (354)
6 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts,---Yet for a little while shall be this, 7 And I will shake the heavens and the earth, Also the sea and the dry land: Yea, I will shake all nations, And come shall the choice things of all nations; And I will fill this house with glory, Saith Jehovah of hosts: 8 Mine the silver and mine the gold, Saith Jehovah of hosts: 9 Greater shall be the glory of this latter house than that of the former, Saith
Jehovah of hosts; And in this place will I give peace, Saith Jehovah of hosts.
10 on the twenty-fourth of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah to Haggai, the Prophet, saying,---
11 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Ask the priests respecting the law, saying,---
12 If a man carry holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any eatable, shall it be made holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
13 Then said Haggai, If any one polluted in his person touch any of these things, shall it be polluted? The priests answered and said, It shall be polluted.
14 Then answered Haggai, and said,---So is this people, and so is this nation, In my sight, saith Jehovah; And so is every work of their hands, And what they offer,---it is polluted.
15 And now I pray, lay it to heart,---From this day and beyond it, Before a stone was laid on a stone In the temple of Jehovah,---
16 Before this time, when one came to a heap of twenty, there were but ten measures, When he came to the vat to draw fifty, There were from the vat but twenty vessels: 17 I smote you with blasting and mildew and hail, As to every work of your hands; And ye turned not to me, saith Jehovah.
18 Lay it, I pray, to your heart,---From this day and beyond it, From the twentyfourth day of the ninth month, From the day the temple of Jehovah was founded;---
Lay it to your heart,---
19 Is there now seed in the barn? And as yet the vine and the fig tree, And the pomegranate and the olive, Have produced nothing;---From this day will I bless you.
20 And the word of Jehovah came again to Haggai, on the twenty-fourth of the month, saying,---
21 Speak to Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, saying,---
22 I will shake the heavens and the earth, And will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, And destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; Yea, I will overthrow chariots and their riders, And down shall come the horses and their riders, Every one by the sword of his brother: 23 In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will take Zerubbabel, The son of Shealtiel, my servant, saith Jehovah, And I will make thee as a signet, For I have chosen thee, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Translation: Zechariah 1
1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah to Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, the son of Iddo, the Prophet, saying ---
2 Very angry has Jehovah been with your fathers: 3 Thou shalt therefore say to them, --- Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- Return ye to me, saith Jehovah of hosts; And I will return to you, saith Jehovah of hosts: 4 Be ye not like your fathers, For cry to them did the former Prophets, saying, ---
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- ``Return ye, I pray, from your evil ways, And from your evil works;'' But they heard not, nor attended to me, Saith Jehovah.
5 Your fathers --- where are they? And the Prophets --- do they for ever live?
6 But my words and my statutes, Which I committed to my servants the Prophets, Have they not laid hold on your fathers? --- When they returned, they said, --- ``As Jehovah of hosts had purposed to do to us According to our ways and our works, So hath he done to us.''
7 On the twenty-fourth of the eleventh month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah to Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, the son of Iddo, the Prophet, saying, ---
8 I saw by night, and behold a man riding on a red horse; and he stood among the myrtles in a low place; and after him were horses, red, variegated, and white.
9 And I said, What are these, my Lord? And the Angel, who spoke with me, said to me, I will show thee what these are.
10 And the Angel, who stood among the myrtles, answered and said, These are they whom Jehovah has sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
11 And they answered the angel of Jehovah, who stood among the myrtles, and said --- ``We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, the whole earth rests and is quiet.''
12 And the Angel of Jehovah answered and said, Jehovah of hosts! How long
wilt thou not pity Jerusalem And the cities of Judah, Which thou hast despised these seventy years! (42)
13 Then answered Jehovah the Angel, who spoke with me, with good words, with comfortable words.
14 And the Angel, who spoke with me, said to me, Cry, saying, ------ Thus saith
Jehovah of hosts, --- I am zealous for Jerusalem And for Sion, with great zeal: (44)
15 And with great anger am I angry With the nations which are quiet; For I was angry a little, And they helped on the evil.
16 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, --- I am turned to Jerusalem in compassions; My house shall be built in it, Saith Jehovah of hosts; And a line shall be extended over Jerusalem.
17 Cry again, saying, --- Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- Yet wear out shall cities through abundance, (51) And Jehovah shall yet comfort Zion, And will yet choose
Jerusalem.
18 And I raised my eyes and saw, and behold four horns; 19 and I said to the angel, who was speaking with me, What are these? and he said to me, These are the four horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
20 Then Jehovah showed me four smiths:
21 and I said, What are these coming to do? and he said, saying, Those are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no one could raise up his head; but these are come to frighten them, to thrust away the horns of the nations, which raised the horn against the land of Judah to scatter it. (57)
Translation: Zechariah 2
1 And I raised my eyes and saw, and behold a man in whose hand was a measuring-line: 2 and I said, Where art thou going? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, that I may see what is its breadth, and what is its length.
3 And behold the angel who was speaking with me, he went forth, and another angel went forth to meet him, and said to him, 4 Run, speak to this youth, saying, --- In the villages shall dwell Jerusalem, For the number of men and cattle in it: 5 And I shall be to it, saith Jehovah, A wall of fire round about, And for glory shall I be in the midst of it
6 Ho! Ho! flee ye From the land of the north, saith Jehovah: For to the four winds of heaven Have I scattered you, saith Jehovah. (65)
7 Ho! Zion! be thou delivered, Who dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
8 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, After the glory hath he sent me To the nations with spoiled you: For he who touches you Touches the apple of his eye.
9 For, behold, I shake my hand over them, And they shall be a prey to their servants; And ye shall know That Jehovah of hosts hath sent me.
10 Exult and rejoice, thou daughter of Zion; For behold I am coming, And will dwell in thy midst, saith Jehovah: 11 And join themselves shall many nations To Jehovah in that day; And they shall be to me a people, And I will dwell in the midst of thee; And thou shalt know, That Jehovah of hosts has sent me to thee: 12 And Jehovah will take Judah As his hereditary portion in the holy land; And he will yet choose Jerusalem. Be silent all flesh before Jehovah; Be silent all flesh before Jehovah; Fore roused he is from his holy habitation.
Translation: Zechariah 3
1 And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to oppose him.
2 And Jehovah said to Satan, --- Rebuke thee, Satan, let Jehovah; Yea, rebuke thee let Jehovah, Who has chosen Jehovah: Is not this a brand snatched from the fire!
3 And Joshua was clad in sordid garments, and stood before the angel: 4 and he answered and said to those who stood before him, saying, Take the sordid garments from off him: and he said to him, See I have made to pass from thee thine iniquity, and I will clothe thee with new garments.
5 And I said, Let them set a pure mitre on his head: and they set a mitre on his head when they had clothed him with garments; and the angel of Jehovah stood by: 6 And protest did the angel of Jehovah to Joshua, saying, ---
7 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, If in my ways wilt thou walk, And my charge wilt thou keep, thou shalt then rule my house, And thou shalt also keep my courts; And I will give thee a free intercourse Among those who are present. (94)
8 Hear now, O Joshua! the high priest, Thou and thy associates who stand before thee; For men of wonder are these; For, behold, I will bring forth my servant, the
Branch:
9 For, behold, the stone which I have set before Joshua, On that one stone are seven eyes; Behold, I will engrave its engraving, Saith Jehovah of hosts; And I will remove the iniquity Of that land in one day: 10 In that day, saith Jehovah, Ye shall call, every one his neighbour, Under the vine and under the figtree. (101)
Translation: Zechariah 4
1 And return did the angel who had bee speaking with me, and roused me as a man who is roused from his sleep: 2 And he said to me, What dost thou see? and I said, I see and behold a candlestick, all of gold, and a bowl on its top, and seven lamps on it, seven pourers to the seven lamps, which are on its top, 3 And two olive-trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and one on its left.
4 Then I answered and said to the angel who was speaking with me, saying, What are these, my Lord?
5 And the angel who was speaking with me, answered and said to me, Knowest thou not? and I said, No, my Lord.
6 And he answered and said to me, saying, Not by a host, and not by courage, But by my Spirit, (110) Saith Jehovah of hosts.
7 What art thou, great mountain, Before Zerubbabel? --- A plain: And he shall bring forth the top-stone, With shoutings, ``Grace, grace to it.''
8 Then came the word of Jehovah to me, saying, ---
9 The hands of Zerubbabel have founded this house, And his hands shall complete it; And thou shalt know That Jehovah of hosts has sent me to you.
10 For who has despised the day of small things! For they shall rejoice when they see The plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel. These seven, the eyes of Jehovah are they, Which go round through the whole earth.
11 And I answered and said to him, What are these two olive-trees on the right of the candlestick, and on its left?
12 And I answered the second time and said, What are these two flowings of the olive-tree, which are between the two pipes of gold, which pour golden oil from themselves?
13 And he said to me, saying, Knowest thou not what these are? And I said, No,
my Lord.
14 And he said, These are the two sons of oil which stand with the Lord of the whole earth.
Translation: Zechariah 5
1 And I returned and raised my eyes and looked, and behold a flying roll.
2 And he said to me, What dost thou see? And I said, I see a flying roll, its length twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits.
3 And he said to me, This is the curse which goeth forth over the face of the whole land; for every one who steals shall on this as on that side be punished, and every one who swears shall on this as on that side be punished. (129)
4 I will bring it forth, saith Jehovah of hosts; and it shall come into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears by my name falsely; and it shall abide in the midst of his house and consume it, both its timber and its stones.
5 And the angel who had been speaking with me came forth and said to me, Raise now thine eyes, and see what this is that goeth forth.
6 And I said, What is this? And he said, This is a measure which goeth forth: he said also, This is their eye through all the earth.
7 And behold, a thin piece of lead was carried along, and a woman was sitting in the midst of the measure.
8 And he said, This if Wickedness: and he cast the piece of lead on its mouth.
9 And I raised my eyes and saw, and behold two women going forth, and wind in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork; and they raised up the measure between earth and heaven.
10 And I said to the angel who was speaking with me, Where do these carry the measure?
11 And he said to me, To build for it a house in the land of Shinar; and it shall be set and fixed there on its own base.
Translation: Zechariah 6
1 And I turned and raised mine eyes and looked, and behold four chariots going forth from the midst of two mountains, and mountains were mountains of brass: 2 In the first chariot were red horses, and in the second chariot black horses, 3 And in the third chariot white horses, and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.
4 And I answered and said to the angel who was speaking with me, What are these, my Lord?
5 And the angel answered and said to me, These are the four spirits of heaven, going forth from their station before the Lord of the whole earth; 6 And the black horses go forth to the land of the north, and the white go forth after them, and the grisled go forth to the land of the south.
7 When the bay went forth, they asked that they might perambulate through the earth: and the perambulated through the earth.
8 And he called me, and spoke to me, saying, See, those who went forth to the land of the north have quieted my spirit in the land of the north.
9 And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, 10 Take from the exiles, from Heldai, and from Tobiah, and from Jedaiah (and go in that day into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah) who have come from
Babylon;
11 Yea take from them silver and gold and make crowns, (154,) and set them on the head of Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high-priest; 12 And speak to him, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, saying, Behold the man! Branch is his name; And from his won place shall he grow up, And shall build the temple of Jehovah; 13 Yea, he shall build the temple of Jehovah, And shall himself bear the glory, And shall sit and rule on his throne, And shall be a priest on his throne, And the counsel
of peace shall be between the two.
14 And the crowns shall be to Heldai and to Tobiah, And to Jedaiah, and to Hen, the son of Zephaniah, For a memorial in the temple of Jehovah.
15 And those afar off shall come and build In the temple of Jehovah; And ye shall know That Jehovah of hosts, has sent me to you: And thus shall it be, if by hearing ye will hear The voice of Jehovah your God.
Translation: Zechariah 7
1 And in the fourth year of king Darius the word of Jehovah came to Zechariah, on the fourth day of the ninth month, even Chisleu: 2 For Sherezer had sent to the house of God, and also Regemmelech and his men, to entreat the favour of Jehovah, 3 And to speak to the priests who were in the house of Jehovah of hosts, and to the Prophets, saying, ``Shall I weep in the fifth month? Shall I separate myself as I have done these years?''
4 And the word of Jehovah came to me saying, (165)
5 Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did you by fasting fast to me to me?
6 And when ye ate and when ye drank, did you not eat and drink for yourselves?
7 Are not these the words which Jehovah proclaimed by the former Prophets, when Jerusalem was quiet and wealthy, and its cities around it, when both the south and the plain country were quiet?
8 And the word of Jehovah came to Zechariah, saying, 9 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, saying, The judgment of truth pronounce, And kindness and mercies show, Every one to his brother; 10 And the widow and the orphan, The stranger and the poor, rob not; An evil to his brother Let none of you imagine in his heart: 11 But they refused to attend, And presented the withdrawing shoulder, And their ears they made heavy so as not to hear; 12 And their heart they made an adamant, That they might not hear the words
Which Jehovah of hosts had sent By his Spirit, through the former prophets; And there was great wrath from Jehovah of hosts: 13 And it was, that as he had called and they heard not, So they shall call, and I
will not hear, Saith Jehovah of hosts; 14 And I will scatter them among all the nations, Whom they have not known, And the land shall be desolate after them, So that there shall be none passing through nor returning: And they made the land of delight a waste.
Translation: Zechariah 8
1 And the word of Jehovah of hosts came, saying, ---
2 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- Zealous have I been for Zion with great zeal, And with great indignation have I been zealous for her.
3 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- I am returned to Zion and will dwell In the midst of Jerusalem; And called shall be Jerusalem, ``The city of truth,'' And the mount of Jehovah of hosts, ``The mount of holiness.''
4 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- Yet dwell shall aged men and aged women In the streets of Jerusalem, Each one with his staff in his hand for very age; 5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls, Who shall play in its streets.
6 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- If marvellous it be In the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, Shall it also in mine eyes be marvellous? Saith Jehovah of hosts.
7 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- Behold, I will save my people From the land of the east And from the land of the setting sun; 8 And I will restore them, And they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; And they shall be to me a people, And I will be to them a God, In truth and in righteousness.
9 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- Strengthened be your hands, Who hear in these days these words From the mouth of the prophets, Who were in the day when founded Was the house of Jehovah of hosts, And the temple, that it might be built.
10 For before those days There was no hire for man, and no hire for beast; And to the goer and to the comer, There was no peace because of distress; (207) And I sent forth all men, Each one against his neighbour.
11 But now, not according to former days, Shall I deal with the residue of this people, Saith Jehovah of hosts: 12 For the seed shall be prosperous; The vine shall yield its fruit, And the earth
shall yield its increase, And the heavens shall give their dew; yea, I will cause the remnant of this people To inherit all these things. (210)
13 And it shall be, that as ye were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, So will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing; Fear not, strengthened be your hands.
14 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- As I thought to bring evil on you, When provoke me did your fathers, Saith Jehovah of hosts, And I did not repent; 15 So have I turned, I have thought in these days To do good to Jerusalem And to the house of Judah, fear ye not 16 These are the things which ye shall do, --- Speak ye the truth, each one to his neighbour; The truth and the judgment of peace Proclaim in your gates; 17 And evil to his neighbour Let none of you imagine in your hearts; And a false oath love not; For all these things I hate, saith Jehovah.
18 And the word of Jehovah of hosts came to me, saying, ---
19 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, The fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, And the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth month, Shall be to the house of Judah For joy, and gladness, and cheerful feasts; Therefore love ye truth and peace.
20 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- It shall yet be, that come shall people And the inhabitants of great cities; 21 Yea, come shall the inhabitants Of one to another, saying, ``Going let us go to entreat the face of Jehovah, and to seek Jehovah of hosts, I will also go:''
22 Yea, come shall great and strong nation To seek Jehovah of hosts at Jerusalem, And to entreat the face of Jehovah.
23 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- In those days shall it be, That ten men, of all languages of the nations, Shall lay hold on the skirt of a Jew, saying, ``We will walk with you, For we have heard that God is with you.''
Translation: Zechariah 9
1 The burden of the word of Jehovah On the land of Hadrach, And Damascus its resting-place, When to Jehovah shall be the eye of man And of all the tribes of Israel: 2 Even Hamath shall border on it, Tyre also Sidon, Though it be very wise: 3 And built hath Tyre a fortress for herself, And heaped together silver as dust, And gold as the mire of the streets; 4 Behold, Jehovah will drive her out, And smite in the sea her power, And with fire shall she be consumed. (239)
5 See shall Ashkelon, and fear, And Gaza, --- and it will be very sorrowful; Ekron also, --- for confounded shall be her expectation: And perish shall the king from Gaza, And Ashkelon shall not be inhabited; 6 And dwell shall a stranger in Ashdod, For I will cut off the pride of the Philistines; 7 And take away will I his blood from his mouth And his abominations from between his teeth; And he, the remnant, even he shall be for our God; He shall be even as a leader in Judah, And Ekron, as a Jebusite: 8 I will also be a camp to my house From an army, when passing through and returning; And pass through them shall the exactor no more; For now I have seen with mine eyes.
9 Exult greatly, thou daughter of Zion, Shout, thou daughter of Jerusalem; Behold, the King shall come to thee, Just and saved shall he be, Poor and riding on an ass, Even on a colt, the foal of an ass: 10 And cut off shall I the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; cut off also shall be the bow of war; And speak peace shall he to the nations; And his dominion shall be from sea to sea, And from the river to the extremities of the earth.
11 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant, Have I sent forth thy captive
From the pit, in which there was no water: 12 Return to the stronghold, ye captives of hope; Even to day I declare, Double
blessings will I render to thee;
13 For I will bend for me Judah as a bow, I will fill my quiver with Ephraim; And will rouse thy sons, O Zion, Against thy sons, O Greece; And I will make thee as the sword of a mighty man: 14 Jehovah also shall over them be seen, And go forth as lightning shall his arrow; Yea, the Lord Jehovah, with the trumpet shall he blow, And march forth in the whirlwind of the south. (269)
15 Jehovah of hosts will defend them, And they shall devour and subdue with sling-stones; They shall also drink and make a noise as through wine, And filled shall they be as the bowls, As the corners of the altar; 16 And save them shall Jehovah their God In that day, as a flock, his own people; For as the stones of a crown shall they be raised over his land.
17 For how great is his goodness! And how great his beauty! Corn shall refresh young men, And new wine the maids. (276)
Translation: Zechariah 10
1 Ask ye from Jehovah rain in the latter season; And Jehovah will make clouds; And rain --- a shower, will he give them, To every one grass in the field. (279)
2 Surely the images have spoken vanity, And the diviners have seen falsehood, And dreams of vanity have they spoken; In vain have they comforted: They have therefore wandered like sheep, They were distressed, for there was no shepherd.
3 Against the shepherds was my fury kindled, The he-goats will I punish; For visit will Jehovah of hosts His flock, the house of Judah, And make them as his splendid horse in was.
4 From him shall come forth the corner-stone, From him the nail, From him the bow of war, From him also every exactor. (286)
5 And they shall be as mighty men, Treading down their enemies In the mire of the streets in battle; And they shall fight, for Jehovah will be with them; And ashamed shall be the riders on horses.
6 I will also strengthen the house of Judah, And the house of Joseph will I save, And cause them to return and dwell; For I have pitied them, and they shall be As though I had not cast them away; For I Jehovah am their God, And I will hear them: 7 And they shall be as a mighty man, even Ephraim; And rejoice shall their heart as through wine; Their sons also shall see and rejoice, Exult shall their heart in Jehovah.
8 I will whistle for them and gather them: For I have redeemed them, And they shall increase as they had increased.
9 Sow them also will I among the people, And in distant lands will they remember me, And they shall live with their sons and return; 10 Yea, I will restore them from the land of Egypt, And from Assyria will I gather them, And to the land of Gilead and Lebanon will I bring them, And no place shall be found for them. (196)
11 And spread shall distress over the sea, For he will smite in the sea the waves,
And dry up shall the depths of the river; Yea, cast down shall be the pride of Assyria, And the sceptre of Egypt shall depart.
12 I will also strengthen them in Jehovah; And in his name shall they walk, saith
Jehovah.
Translation: Zechariah 11
1 Open, Lebanon, thy doors, That consume may the fire thy cedars: 2 Howl, thou fir-tree, Fore the cedar has fallen, For the strong has been laid waste: Howl, ye oaks of Bashan, For fallen has the fortified forest.
3 The voice of the howling of shepherds! For wasted is their excellency; The voice of the roaring of lions! For laid waste is the pride of Jordan.
4 Thus saith Jehovah my God, --- Feed the flock of slaughter: 5 They who possess them, slay them, And consider not that they sin; And he who sells them, says, --- ``Blessed be Jehovah, for I am enriched;'' Yea, he who feeds them spares them not.
6 Surely I will no more spare the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah; And behold, I will deliver every man Into the hand of his neighbour, And into the hand of his king; And smite shall they the land, And I will not deliver it from their hand.
7 And I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the poor of the flock; and I took to me two rods; the one I called ``Beauty,'' and the other I called ``Cords;'' and I fed the flock: 8 And I rejected three shepherds in one month: and wearied was my soul with them, and their soul also hated me: 9 And I said, --- I will not feed you; What is to die, let it die, What is to be cast off, let it be cast off, And those which remain, let them devour, Every one the flesh of another.
10 And I took my rod ``Beauty,'' and broke it, that broken might be the covenant which I had made with all the people: 11 And it was broken in that day; and so the poor of the flock, who attended to me, knew that it was the word of Jehovah.
12 Then I said to them, ``If it be good in your eyes, give me my reward; if not, forbear:'' and they weighed as my reward thirty silverings.
13 And Jehovah said to me, ``Cast it to the potter, the magnificent price at which I have been valued by them!'' And I took the thirty silverings and cast them into the temple of Jehovah to the potter.
14 Then I broke my other rod, ``Cords,'' that broken might be the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15 And Jehovah said to me, take again to thee the implements of a foolish shepherd; ---
16 For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land; What is cut off he will not visit, What is young he will not seek, What is broken he will not heal, What stands sound he will not feed; But the flesh of the fat he will devour, And their hoofs will he break. ---
17 Woe to the worthless shepherd! Who forsakes the flock; The sword shall be on his arm And on his right eye; (336) His arm by drying shall dry up, And his right eye by contracting shall be contracted.
Translation: Zechariah 12
1 The burden of the word of Jehovah on Israel; --- Say does Jehovah, Who expanded the heavens and founded the earth, And formed the spirit of man within him, ---
2 Behold, I make Jerusalem A threshold of bruising to all the people around; And as to Judah, so shall he be During the siege against Jerusalem. (344)
3 It shall also be in that day That I will make Jerusalem A burdensome stone to all people; Whosoever will lift it shall be cut in pieces, Though assembled against it
Should be all the nations of the earth. (345)
4 In that day, saith Jehovah, I will smite every horse with stupor, And its rider with madness; and on the house of Judah I will open mine eyes; And every horse of the people Will I smite with blindness: 5 And say will the chiefs of Judah in their hearts, --- ``Strength to me are the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Through Jehovah of hosts their God.'' (349)
6 In that day I will make the chiefs of Judah Like a pot fire among wood; And like a torch of fire in a sheaf, And they shall consume, on the right hand And on the left, all the nations around; And inhabited shall be Jerusalem In her own place, in Jerusalem: 7 And save shall Jehovah The tents of Judah as at the beginning; And thus the honour of the house of David, and the honour of the citizen of Jerusalem, Shall not exult over Judah. (345)
8 In that day Jehovah will protect The inhabitant of Jerusalem; And the feeble among them shall be like David, And the house of David like angels, (357) As the angel of Jehovah before their face.
9 And it shall be in that day, That I will seek to destroy all the nations Who shall come against Jerusalem: 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, And upon the inhabitant of Jerusalem, The spirit of grace and of lamentations; And they shall look to me whom they have
pierced: And lament shall they for him, As with a lamentation for an only-begotten; And bitter shall they be for him, As with a bitterness for a first-born.
11 In that day great shall be the lamentation in Jerusalem, Like the lamentation of Hadadrimmon In the valley of Megiddon: 12 And lament shall the land, 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; 13 The family of the house of Levi apart, And their wives apart; The family of Shimei apart; And their wives apart; 14 All the remaining families, Every family apart, And their wives apart;
Translation: Zechariah 13
1 In that day shall a fountain be opened To the house of David And to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, For expiation and for sprinkling.
2 And it shall be in that day, saith Jehovah, That I will cut off the names of idols from the land, And they shall be remembered no more; And the prophets also and the unclean spirit Will I exterminate from the land.
3 And it shall be, when prophesy yet shall any one, That say to him will his gather and his mother, Who begat him, ``Thou shalt not live, For a lie hast thou spoken in Jehovah's name;'' And they shall pierce him, Even his father and his mother who begat him; Because he had prophesied.
4 It shall also be in that day That ashamed shall be the prophets, Every on of his vision, when he has prophesied; And they shall not wear a hairy garment, That they may deceive: 5 But he shall say, ``I am not a prophet, A husbandman am I, for man has taught me To be a shepherd from my youth.''
6 When one shall say to him, ``Why are these wounds in thine hands?'' Then he will say, ``Because I have been stricken In the house of my friends.'' (393)
7 O sword! awake against my shepherd, And against the man, my associate, Saith Jehovah of hosts: Smite the shepherd, and scattered shall be the sheep; And I will turn my hand to the little ones.
8 And it shall be in all the land, saith Jehovah, That two parts in it shall be cut off
--- shall die, And that the third shall remain in it: 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, And will melt them as silver is melted, And try them as gold is tried; They shall call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, ``My people are the;'' And they will say, ``Jehovah is out God.''
Translation: Zechariah 14
1 Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh! And divided shall be thy spoils in the midst of thee: 2 For I will gather all nations Against Jerusalem for war; And taken shall be the city And plundered shall be the houses, And the women shall be ravished; And go forth shall half of the city into exile; And the residue of the people Shall not be cut off from the city.
3 And go forth shall Jehovah; And he will fight against these nations, As in the day when he fought in the day of battle: 4 And stand shall his feet in that day On the mount of Olives, Which is nigh
Jerusalem on the east; And rent shall be the mount of Olives in the middle, From east to west there shall be a great valley; 433 And recede shall half of the mount to the north And half of it to the south: 5 And ye shall flee through the valley of the mountains, For reach shall the valley of the mountains to Azal; And ye shall flee as ye fled from the earthquake In the days of Uzziah, king of Judah: And come shall Jehovah my God; --- All the saints shall be with the. (416)
6 And it shall be, that in that day There shall not be clear light nor thick darkness; 7 But it shall be one day, known to Jehovah, Neither day nor night; Bur it shall be, that in the evening There will be light.
8 And it shall be in that day That go forth shall living waters from Jerusalem; Half of them towards the eastern sea, And halt of them towards the western sea; In summer and winter shall they be: 9 And Jehovah shall be king over the whole earth; In that day there shall be one
433This is somewhat different from the version of Calvin, which I am not able to follow; I have therefore given what I conceive to be a literal rendering of the Original. — Ed. And inhabited shall be Jerusalem in safety
Jehovah, And his name shall be one.
10 Turned shall be the whole land to a plain, From Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem; And raised shall it be and inhabited in its own place, From the gate of Benjamin, To the place of the first gate, to the gate of the corners, And from the citadel of Hananeel, To the wine-vats of the king.
11 And they shall dwell in it, And there shall be no more utter destruction;.
12 And this shall be the plague, With which Jehovah shall smite all the people, Who shall fight against Jerusalem; --- Melt away shall their flesh, While they stand on their feet, And their eyes shall melt away in their sockets, Their tongue also shall melt away in their mouth.
13 And it shall be, that in that day A great tumult from Jehovah shall be among them, And lay hold shall each one On the hand of his companion, And rise up shall his hand Against the hand of his neighbour.
14 And even Judah shall fight against Jerusalem, And collected shall be the forces of all nations around, Gold also and silver and garments in great abundance.
15 And the plague of the horse, mule, camel, and ass, And of every beast which shall be in their camps, Shall be even as this plague.
16 And it shall be, that every one who shall remain, Of all the nations which shall come against Jerusalem, Shall ascend from year to year To worship the king, Jehovah of hosts, And to celebrate the feast of tabernacles.
17 And it shall be as to those who will not ascend, Of the families of the earth unto Jerusalem, To worship the king, Jehovah of hosts, That upon them there shall not be rain: 18 And if the family of Egypt shall not ascend and come, It shall not be on them; (447) There shall also be the plague, With which Jehovah shall smite all the nations, Who shall not ascend To celebrate the feast of tabernacles.
19 Such will be the punishment of Egypt, And the punishment of all the nations, Which will not ascend To celebrate the feast of tabernacle.
20 In that day there shall be on the blinders of horses, Holiness unto Jehovah; And it shall be, that the pots in the house of Jehovah, Shall be like the vessels before the altar: 21 And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah, Shall be holiness to Jehovah of hosts; And come shall all who shall sacrifice, And take them and seethe in them: And there shalt not be a Canaanite any more, In the house of Jehovah of hosts, in that day.
Translation: Malachi 1
1 The burden of the word of Jehovah on Israel, by Malachi, ---
2 I have loved you, saith Jehovah; But ye have said, In what hast thou loved us?
Was not Esau a brother to Jacob? saith Jehovah; 3 Yet I loved Jacob, and Esau I hated: And I have set his mountains a waste And his heritage for the serpents of the desert.
4 If Edom shall say, ``We have been diminished, But we shall return and build houses;'' Yet thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- ``They shall build, but I will pull down;''
And they shall be called, ``The border of ungodliness,'' And, ``The people with whom Jehovah is angry forever:''
5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, --- Magnified let Jehovah be throughout the border of Israel.
6 A son honours his father, and a servant his master: If then I be a father, where is my honour? And if I be a master, where is my fear? Saith Jehovah of hosts to you, priests, Who despise my name: But ye have said, In what have we despised thy name?
7 Ye offer on my altar polluted bread: Ye have also said, By what have we polluted thee? When ye say, The table of Jehovah, It is contemptible.
8 When ye offer the blind for sacrifice, it is no evil! And when the lame and the sick ye offer, it is no evil! Offer it now I pray to thy governor; Will he be pleased with thee, or accept Thy person, saith Jehovah of hosts?
9 And now I pray entreat the favour of God! And merciful will he be to us! By your hand has this been done; Will he regard your persons? Saith Jehovah of hosts.
10 Who is there even among you who closes the doors? And do ye not kindle my altar in vain? I delight not in you saith Jehovah of hosts, And an offering I will not receive from your hand.
11 Verily, from the rising of the sun to its setting Great shall be my name among
the nations. And in every place incense shall be offered To my name, and a pure offering; For great shall be my name among the nations, Saith Jehovah of hosts.
12 But ye have profaned it by saying, The table of Jehovah is polluted, Its provision is his contemptible food. (505)
13 Ye have also said, Behold weariness? And ye have snuffed at it, saith Jehovah of hosts; And offered the torn and the lame and the sick, And brought an oblation!
Shall I accept this from your hand, Saith Jehovah? (508)
14 But cursed be the deceitful, Who, having in his flock a male, Vows and offers what is corrupt to Jehovah For a great king am I, Saith Jehovah of hosts, And my name is terrible among the nations.
Translation: Malachi 2
1 And not to you is this command, O priests; 2 If ye will not hear not lay it to heart, To give glory to my name, Saith Jehovah of hosts, I will send on you a curse, And will curse your blessings; Yea, I have cursed them, Because ye lay it not to heart.
3 Behold, I will destroy your seed And scatter dung on your faces, The dung of your solemn feasts; And it shall take you to itself: And ye shall know, 4 That I have sent to you this command, That my covenant may be with Levi, Saith Jehovah of hosts.
5 My covenant with him was that of life and peace; And I gave him fear, and he feared me, And before my name he was humble; (524)
6 The law of truth was in his mouth, And iniquity was not found in his lips; In peace and uprightness he walked before me, And many he restored from iniquity.
7 Verily the lips of the priest should keep knowledge, And the law should they seek from his mouth, For the messenger of Jehovah of hosts is he: 8 But ye have departed from the way, To stumble have ye made many in the law; Ye have therefore violated the covenant of Levi, Saith Jehovah of hosts: 9 Therefore have I also made you Contemptible and base before all the people, As ye have not kept my ways And had respect of persons in the law.
10 Is there not one father to us all? Hath not one God created us? Why do we deal falsely, every one with his brother? So as to pollute the covenant of our fathers.
11 Perfidiously has Judah acted, And abomination has been done In Israel and in Jerusalem; For polluted hath Judah (544) The holiness of Jehovah, which he loved, And hath married the daughter of another god.
12 Cut off will Jehovah The man who doeth this, The prompter and the respondent, From the tabernacles of Jacob; And him who bringeth an oblation to Jehovah of hosts.
13 And this have ye in the second place done --- Covering with tears the altar
of Jehovah, With weeping and with wailing, Because there is no more regard to the offering, And no receiving of what is acceptable from you hand.
14 And ye have said, Why is this? Because Jehovah has been witness Between thee and the wife of thy youth; With whom thou hast dealt unfaithfully, When yet she is thy consort, And the wife of thy covenant.
15 But did he not make one? And had he not an exuberance of spirit? And why one? That he might seek [secure] good seed. Therefore watch over your spirit; And with the wife of thy youth Deal not thou unfaithfully.
16 For if thou hatest, dismiss, Saith Jehovah, God of Israel; For he covers violence with his garment, Saith Jehovah of hosts: Therefore watch over you spirit, And deal not unfaithfully.
17 Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words; But ye have said, How have we wearied him? By saying, Whosoever doeth evil Is acceptable in the eyes of Jehovah, And in them he takes delight; Or, Where is the God of judgment?
Translation: Malachi 3
1 Behold I will send my messenger, And he will clear the way before me: And presently he shall come to his temple, The Lord whom ye seek, Even the messenger of the covenant whom ye desire; Behold, he cometh, saith Jehovah of hosts.
2 But who will endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears.
For he will be like a purifying fire And like the herb of the fullers: 3 And he shall sit as the purifier and cleanser of silver, And he will cleanse the sons of Levi, And fuse them as silver and gold, 4 That they may offer to Jehovah An offering in righteousness; And acceptable to Jehovah Shall be the offering of Judah and Jerusalem, As in the days of old, as in former years.
5 I will also draw nigh to you for judgment, And will be a swift witness Against the sorcerers and the adulterers And those who swear to a falsehood, And who withhold the wages of the hireling, And wrong the widow, the orphan, and the stranger, And who fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
6 Because I am Jehovah, I change not; Therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
7 From the days of your fathers Ye have turned from my statutes and have not kept them; Return to me, and I will return to you, Saith Jehovah of hosts: But ye have said, How are we to return?
8 Will a man rob the gods? (585) But ye have robbed me: yet ye have said, In what have we robbed thee? In the tithes and in the offerings.
9 With a curse are ye cursed, For ye have robbed me, the whole of the nation.
10 Bring ye all the tithes to the store-house, And let there be food in my house; And prove me now by this, Saith Jehovah of hosts, Whether I will not open for you
The windows of heaven, And draw out for you a blessing, Until there be a superabundance:
11 I will also restrain for you the devourer, That he may not destroy the fruit of your land; And not fruitless will be the vine for you in the field, Saith Jehovah of hosts.
12 Then blessed shall all nations call you, For ye shall be a land of delight, Saith
Jehovah of hosts.
13 Strong against me have been your words, Saith Jehovah of hosts: But ye have said, In what have we spoken against thee? Ye have said, Vain it is to serve God, 14 And what profit is it, That we have kept his charge, And that we have walked humbly Before Jehovah of hosts: 15 And now happy we call the proud; yea, built up are they who do iniquity, And those who tempt God, and they are delivered.
16 Then spake those who feared Jehovah, Every one to his friend; And hearken did Jehovah and hear, And written was a book of remembrance Before him, for those who feared Jehovah And who thought on his name: 17 And they shall be to me, saith Jehovah of hosts, In the day which I appoint, a peculiar treasure; And I will spare them, As a man spares his son who serves him.
18 Then ye shall return and see the difference Between the righteous and the ungodly, Between him who serves God And him who does not serve him.
Translation: Malachi 4
1 For behold the day! it comes burning as an oven And all the proud and all who do iniquity Shall be stubble; And burn them up shall the day that is coming, Saith
Jehovah of hosts; For it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But arise to you, who fear my name, Shall the sun of righteousness, With healing in its beams; And ye shall go forth and leap, Like fattened calves: 3 And ye shall tread down the ungodly, For they shall be dust under the soles of your feet, In the day which I appoint, Saith Jehovah of hosts.
4 Remember the law of Moses my servant Which I committed to him on Horeb, For all Israel, even the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold I send to you Elijah the prophet, Before it comes, the day of Jehovah, great and terrible; 6 And he shall turn the heart of fathers to their sons, And the heart of sons to their fathers; Lest I come and smite the land with a curse.