Before

Refore

cir. 626.

cir. 626.

A

12, 13 1 Or, thine arrones

I Or, according to variable songs, or,

nJosh. 10.11. Ps. 18. 14.

o Jer. 51. 33.

+ Heb. tky report, or, thy hearing 1 Or, preserve alice. b Ps. 85.6. I Or, the sonstk. cDeut. 33. 2. Judg: 5. + Ps.c87.

12. Ps. 68.91.

Heb. making naked.

+ Heb.uere tempestuous.

his side.
d Nah. 1. 3.

Habakkuk's prayer:

ZEPHANIAH, I.

his confidence in God. CHRIST CHAP. III. 11 m The sun and moon stood still in

CHRIST 1 Habakkuk in his prayer trembleth at God's their habitation: || at the light of thine majesty. 17 The confidence of his faith. arrows they went, and at the shining of m Josh. 10.

PRAYER of Habakkuk the pro- thy glittering spear. • Ps. 7, title. phet ' ll upon Shigionoth.

12 Thou didst march through the land 2 O Lord, I have heard + thy speech, in indignation, °thou didst thresh the l'helligchinesc.

and was afraid: 0 LORD, || brevive thy heathen in anger, tund, called work in the midst of the years, in the 13 Thou wentest forth for the salva- & 77. 17, 18 Skizionoth! midst of the years make known; in tion of thy people, even for salvation with Armed wrath remember mercy. thine anointed; thou woundedst the Mic

. 4. 13. 39 God came from || Teman, and the head out of the house of the wicked, t by 24. & 11.8; Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. discovering the foundation unto the neck. His glory covered the heavens, and the Selah. earth was full of his praise.

14 Thou didst strike through with his 4 And his brightness was as the light; staves the head of his villages: they

he had || horns coming out of his hand: came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: been there and there was the hiding of his power. , bright

their rejoicing was as to devour the poor 5 Before him went the pestilence, secretly. 1 Or, burn and loburning coals went forth at his 159 Thou didst walk through the sea ing diseases; feet.

with thine horses, through the ||heap of ior, 6 He stood, and measured the earth: great waters.

he beheld, and drove asunder the na 16 When I heard, 'my belly trembled; 12.*. 119. fabrics tions; 'and the everlasting mountains my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness Jer. 23. 9.

were scattered, the perpetual hills did entered into my bones, and I trembled in
bow: his ways are everlasting.

myself, that I might rest in the day of 7 I saw the tents of || Cushan || in af- trouble: when he cometh up unto the loeiender, fiction: and the curtains of the land of people, he will || invade them with his home cut Midian did tremble.

troops.

pieces.
8 Was the LORD displeased against the 17 9 Although the fig tree shall not
4. rivers? was thine anger against the ri- blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines;

vers? was thy wrath against the sea, the labour of the olive shall +fail, and + Heb. lie.
" that thou didst ride upon thine horses the fields shall yield no meat; the flock
and || thy chariots of salvation?

shall be cut off from the fold, and there
9 Thy bow was made quite naked, ac shall be no herd in the stalls:

cording to the oaths of the tribes, even thy 18 'Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, Isa, 41. 16. i P. 78. 15. word. Selah. ||'Thou didst cleave the I will joy in the God of my salvation. k Exod. 19. earth with rivers.

19 The Lord God is my strength, 4. Pois. 16, 18. Judg.

10 * The mountains saw thee, and they and he will make my feet like "hinds' feet, 33. trembled: the overflowing of the water and he will make me to 'walk upon mine 13. & 33.39. passed by: the deep uttered his voice, high places. To the chief singer on my Hebrnegiand I lifted up his hands on high. stringed instruments.

9 ver. 8. Ps. 77. 19.

mud

Deut. 12. 24.

Ps. 18. &

96.

! Or, Ethio

rarity. b Deut. 33 96, 37. Ps.

Z E P H A N I A H.
CHAP. I.

5 And them that worship the host of
God's severe judgment against Judah for heaven upon the housetops; "and them
divers sins.

that worship and that swear ||by the e2 Kings 23. NHE

Looband then wenke " bay Mauchen f 2 Kings 18. unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, 6 And 'them that are turned back 2.1. 2 Kings the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, from the Lord; and those that have not Isai

. 48. 1. the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah sought the LORD, nor enquired for him. the son of Amon, king of Judah.

7 "Hold thy peace at the presence of 532. aking steay

29 +I will utterly consume all things the Lord God: in for the day of the LORD 7 Kings will make from off + the land, saith the LOBD.

is at hand: for "the Lord hath prepared Isai

. 1. 4. 3 'I will consume man and beast, I will a sacrifice, he hath + bid his guests.

consume the fowls of the heaven, and the 8 And it shall come to pass in the day Hos. 7.7. Hes. 4. 3

fishes of the sea, and the || stumbling of the Lord's sacrifice, that I will pu- Zech. 2. 13. Buek blocks with the wicked; and I will cut nish the princes, and the king's child- m Isai. 136. prietenost off man from off the land, saith the LORD. ren, and all such as are clothed with el. 96.740.

4 I will also stretch out mine hand strange apparel. upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants 9 În the same day also will I punish Heb.concof Jerusalem; and “I will cut off the all those that leap on the threshold, prepared. remnant of Baal from this place, and the which fill their masters' houses with vio- i petel, visit name of the Chemarims with the priests; lence and deceit.

Heb. the ze of the

Jer. 2. 13, 17. & 15.6.

Ezek. 39. 17.
Rev. 19. 17.

o Jer. 39. 6.

CHE

Before CHRIST

33. 14

Jam. 5.1.

ed, or, thickened.

Erode

P's. 94.7.

30, 39. Amos 5. II.

* Joel 2. 1,

der L

Asal

Isai. 22. 5. Jer. 30 7.

Amos 5. 18.
Ver. 18.

X Fer. 7.

z Jer. 4. 19.

14 And eflocks shall lie down in the será tern shall lodge in the upper lintels of

TOE to Ilther that is filthy and pol- ! Ces stone God's judgment against Judah, &c. ZEPHANIAH.

The judgment of the Philistinet 10 And it shall come to pass in that coasts, the nation of the Cherethites ! Bears eit. 6.26.' day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the word of the Lord is against you; 0 cir. És p 2 Chron. the noise of a cry from Pthe fish gate, and Canaan, the land of the Philistines, Ik berbag

an howling from the second, and a great will even destroy thee, that there shall
crashing from the hills.

be no inhabitant,
11 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, 6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings
for all the merchant people are cut down; and cottages for shepherds, 'and folds for
all they that bear silver are cut off. flocks.

12 And it shall come to pass at that 7 And the coast shall be for the rem- Mic. 47*

time, that I will search Jerusalem with nant of the house of Judah; they shall 1, leb.curd candles, and punish the men that t'are feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashke. ver.$

settled on their lees: 'that say in their lon shall they lie down in the evening:
h der: 28.11. heart, The LORD will not do good, neither || for the Lord their God shall "visit them, leo
will he do evil.

and o turn away their captivity.
13 Therefore their goods shall become 81 PI have heard the reproach of a

a booty, and their houses a desolation: Moab, and the revilings of the children are
1. Deut. 28. they shall also build houses, but not in- of Ammon, whereby they have reproach.com

habit them; and they shall plant vine-ed my people, and" magnified themselves Et ** u Mic. 6. 15. yards, but not drink the wine thereof. against their border.

14 *The great day of the Lord is near, 2 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD
it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely "Moab berilis
voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty shall be as Sodom, and the children of ze e
man shall cry there bitterly.

Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breed.
15 "That day is a day of wrath, a day ing of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual oriente
Juci 2.2, 11. of trouble and distress,' a day of waste- desolation: the residue of my people alwa, 19

ness and desolation, a day of darkness shall spoil them, and the remnant of my Jer,
and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick people shall possess them.
darkness,

10 This shall they have 'for their
16 A day of "the trumpet and alarm pride, because they have reproached and det.**
against the fenced cities, and against the magnified themselves against the people of
high towers.

the LORD of hosts.
17 And I will bring distress upon men,

11 The LORD will be terrible unto them: a Dept. 29. that they shall walk like blind men, be" for he will +famish all the gods of the leader

cause they have sinned against the Lord: earth; "and men shall worship him, every b Pk 79-3. and btheir blood shall be poured out as one from his place, even all the isles of ç Ps. 83. 10. dust, and their flesh as the dung. the heathen.

18 Neither their silver nor their gold 12 9 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be 4 Provi" shall be able to deliver them in the day slain by my sword.

of the Lord's wrath; but the whole land 13 | And he will stretch out his hand car:9
shall be devoured by the fire of his jea- against the north, and destroy Assyria

;
ver. 2, 3. lousy: for he shall make even a speedy and will make Nineveh a desolation, and more

riddance of all them that dwell in the dry like a wilderness.
land.
CHAP. II.

midst of her, all the beasts of the na-
1 An exhortation to repentance. 4 The judg- tions: both the cormorant and the bit er

ment of the Philistines, 8 of Moab and Am-
mon, 12 of Ethiopia and Assyria.

it; their voice

shall sing in the windows open
ATHER “yourselves together, yea, desolation shall be in the thresholds

: |for
sired;
2 Before the decree bring forth, before carelessly, that said in her heart, I am

15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt
5 Job 31. 18. the day pass Was the chaft, before the and there'is none beside me: how is she does not
1:13* Hos: fierce anger of the Lord come upon you, become a desolation, a place for beasts to
13. Kings 23. before the day of the Lord's anger come lie down in! every one that passeth by

her Ishall hiss, and 'n wag his hand. 3 Seek ye the LORD, "all ye meek of

CHAP. III. P. M. the earth, which have wrought his

judg. 11 A sharp reproof of Jerusalem frente ment; seek righteousness, seek meekAmors. 15 ness: 'it may be ye shall be hid in the

restoration of Israel, 14 and to rejoice for Jer 42: 4. day of the Lord's anger.

their salvation by God. 4 f For Gaza

shall beh forsaken Lind W 6,7,8. Zech. Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive

WE

luted, to the oppressing city!
out Ashdod hat the noon day, and Ekron
shall be rooted up.

ceived not || correction; she trusted not in om**
5 Woe unto the inhabitants of i the sea the Lord; she drew not near to her God.

Before
CHRIST

Before
CHRIST

cir. 630.

Law v dan

27. Mie. 3.
9, 10, 11.

Zech. ti. 11.
Matt. 5.3.

98. Jam, 2.5.
t Mic. 4. 7.

74

Ezek. n. 26

u Isai.co.

x Isai. 63. 8.
Rev. 14.5.

, 17.

UN

+ Heb. inarning by morning

z Isgi, 12.6.
& 34.1.

6. 16. & 8.12.

& y. 9.
a Johol.49.

Jerusalem reproved for divers sins. HAGGAI, I.

An exhortation to Israel.
3 "Her princes within her are roaring shalt no more be haughty + because of
cir. 630. lions; her judges are devening wolves; my holy mountain.
© Ezek. 22. they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. 12 I will also leave in the midst of thee + Heb. in

4 Her o prophets are light and treach- | 'an afflicted and poor people, and they mi. 14. 32.
a Hab. 1. 8. erous persons: her priests have polluted shall trust in the name of the Lord.
23.the sanctuary, they have done 'violence 13 The remnant of Israel "shall not i Cor. 1. 77,
14. Hos 9 to the law.

do iniquity, * nor speak lies; neither shall
5 & The just LORD bis in the midst a deceitful tongue be found in their ch.2.7
Deut
. 32, thereof; he will not do iniquity: tevery mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, 21.

morning doth he bring his judgment to and none shall make them afraid.
See Mic. 3." light, he faileth not; but the unjust 14 I 'Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, y Ezek. 34.
knoweth no shame.

O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the inside Mic*
6 I have cut off the nations: their heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
Jer. 3.3& || towers are desolate; I made their streets 15 The Lord hath taken away thy Zech, 2. 10.

waste, that none passeth by: their cities judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy:
are destroyed, so that there is no man, the king of Israel, even the Lord, bis in 5 ver. 5, 17
that there is none inhabitant.

the midst of thee: thou shalt not see Euek. 45, 35
7 " I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, evil any more.
thou wilt receive instruction; so their 16 In that day it shall be said to Je- & Isai. 35. 3,
dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever rusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, a Hebr. 12.
I punished them: but they rose early, “Let not thine hands he ||slack.

1 Or, faint.
1 Gen. 6. 12 and 1 corrupted all their doings.

17 The Lord thy God in the midst
8 Therefore " wait ye upon me, saith of thee is mighty; he will save, 'he will : Deut. 30.
Prov. 20. 22. the LORD, until the day that I rise up to rejoice over thee with joy; the will rest & 65. 10.

the prey; for my determination is to in his love, he will joy over thee with 334.
n Joel 3-2 "gather the nations, that I may assemble singing.

the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine 18 I will gather them that are sorrow. s Lam. 2 6.

indignation, even all my fierce anger: for ful for the solemn assembly, who are of
• eh. 1. 18 all the earth shall be devoured with the thee, to whom the reproach of it was burden upon
fire of my jealousy:

a burden.
9 For then will I turn to the people Pa 19 Behold, at that time I will undo
Heb. lip. pure + language, that they may all call all that afflict thee: and I will save her

upon the name of the Lord, to serve him that "halteth, and gather her that was 16. Wir
with one tconsent.

driven out; and t I will get them praise
10 'From beyond the rivers of Ethi- and fame in every land + where they have te them fer
e Sic opia my suppliants, even the daughter of been put to shame.
Aets 8. 9. my dispersed, shall bring mine offering. 20 At that time I will I bring you again, their shame.

11 In that day shalt thou not be even in the time that I gather you: for & 27. 12. &
ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou I will make you a name and a praise * 23*2*

hast transgressed against me: for then I among all people of the earth, when I 2003 Jer, 7.4 will take away out of the midst of the turn back your captivity before your eyes, Hotel them that " rejoice in thy pride, and thou / saith the LORD.

H A G G A I.
CHAP. I.

in your cieled houses, and this house christ
Haggai reproveth the people for neglecting

lie waste?
the building of the house. 7 He inciteth

5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD
them to the building. 12 He promiseth of hosts; +® Consider your ways.
God's assistance to them being forward. 6 Ye have hsown much, and bring in

second year of , little; , have enoughglam. 3. 10.
the month, came the word of the LORD ye clothe you, but there is none warm; 3*. Hou:
he hands on t by Haggai the prophet unto Zerub and he that earneth wages earneth wages 14, 25. ch.

babel the son of Shealtiel, ll governor of to put it into a bag twith holes.
1,10 eura Judah, and to "Joshua the son of a Jose 71 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; 1 Heb.
22. Matt. 1. dech, the high priest, saying,

Consider your ways.
29 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, 8 Go up to the mountain, and bring

saying. This people say, The time is not wood, and build the house; and I will Etra3, 2. come, the time that the LORD's house take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, should be built.

saith the LORD. 3 Then came the word of the LORD

9 "Ye looked for much, and, lo, it k ch. 2. 16. - 2 Sam.

7.2
. by Haggai the prophet, saying,

came to little; and when ye brought it I ch. 2. 17.
4 'Is it time for you, o ye, to dwell home, 'I did || blow upon it.

Why? saith Or, blow

Before CHRIST

cir. 520.

ח

m Lev. 26. 19. Deut. 28.

Hete. 125

Joel 3.5

8. 35

ni Kings 17. 1. 2 Kings &

1.

p Eera 5.2.

20. Rom. 8.

31.

r 2 Chron. 26. 9. Ezra

$ch. 2. 21.

The people encouraged to rebuild the temple. HAGGAI.

God's promise to Zerubbake the LORD of hosts. Because of mine 6 For thus saith the LORD of hosts;

CHRIST house that is waste, and ye run every man 'Yet once, it is a little while, and I will unto his own house.

shake the heavens, and the earth, and the ea. 10 Therefore the heaven over you is sea, and the dry land; 23, 1 Kings stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed

Ý And I will shake all nations, "and Gent from her fruit.

the desire of all nations shall come: and 12 vai 3. 11 And I called for a drought upon I will fill this house with glory, saith the the land, and upon the mountains, and Lord of hosts." upon the corn, and upon the new wine, 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is and upon the oil, and upon that which mine, saith the Lord of hosts.

the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, 9 The glory of this latter house shall i Jekat. o ch. 2. 17. and upon cattle, and oupon all the labour be greater than of the former, saith the of the hands.

LORD of hosts: and in this place will I
12 1 P Then Zerubbabel the son of give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jose 10 1 In the four and twentieth day of it Ends
dech, the high priest, with all the rem- the ninth month, in the second year of
nant of the people, obeyed the voice of Darius, came the word of the LORD by
the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, saying,
Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their 1 Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
God had sent him, and the people did Ask now the priests concerning the law,
fear before the LORD.

saying,
13 Then spake Haggai the Lord's 12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt

messenger in the Lord's message unto of his garment, and with his skirt do Matt. 28 the people, saying, 'I am with you, saith touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, the LORD.

or any meat, shall it be holy? And the 14 | And 'the LORD stirred up the priests answered and said, No. spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, 13 Then said Haggai, If one that is governor of Judah, and the spirit of unclean by a dead body touch any of KB Joshua the son of Josedech, the high these, shall it be unclean? And the

priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of priests answered and said, It shall be Ezra 5-2, the people; and they came and did unclean.

work in the house of the LORD of hosts, 14 Then answered Haggai, and said,
their God,

So is this people, and so is this nation
15 In the four and twentieth day of before me, saith the LORD; and so is
the sixth month, in the second year of every work of their hands; and that
Darius the king.

which they offer there is unclean. CHAP. II.

15 And now, I pray you, consider 15
1 He encourageth the people to the work, by from this day and upward, from before a
promise of greater glory to the second tem-

stone was laid upon a stone in the tem
ple than was in the first. 10 In the type
of holy things and unclean he sheweth their ple of the LORD:
sins hindered the work. 20 God's promise

16 Since those days were, Pwhen one Lacets to Zerubbabel.

came to an heap of twenty measures, In

twentieth day of the month, came the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels the word of the LORD t by the prophet out of the press, there were but twenty. Haggai, saying,

17 'I smote you with blasting and with Darts 2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son mildew and with hail 'in all the labours a di of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to of your hands; 'yet ye turned not to dri Joshua the son of Josedech, the high me, saith the LORD. priest, and to the residue of the people, 18 Consider now from this day and 919 . saying,

upward, from the four and twentieth day 3 Who is left among you that saw this of the ninth month, even from the day Zoche! house in her first glory? and how do ye that the foundation of the Lord's temple see it now? bis it not in your eyes in

was laid, consider it.
comparison of it as nothing?

19 "Is the seed yet in the barn? yea,
4 Yet now be strong, o Zerubbabel, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the
saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath
son of Josedech, the high priest; and be not brought forth: from this day will I
strong, all ye people of the land, saith bless you.
the LORD, and work: for I am with you, 20 7 And again the word of the LORD
saith the LORD of hosts:

came unto Haggai in the four and twen-
5. According to the word that I cove- tieth day of the month, saying,

nanted with you when ye came out of 21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of ch. 1. * Isai. bis. . Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among Judah, saying, 'I will shake the heavens Here you: fear ye not.

and the earth;

Heb. by The hand of.

• Jers Anos 46,

a Erra 3. 12.

b Zech. 4.

c Zech. & 9.

Before CHRIST

cir. 520

Before CHRIST

Zechariah exhorteth to repentance. ZECHARIAH, I.

The vision of the horns, &c. 22 And 'I will overthrow the throne | every one by the sword of his brother.

of kingdoms, and I will destroy the 23 In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, cir. 52o. Dan. 9. 44. strength of the kingdoms of the hea- will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my ser- 5 Cant. 8. 6. Matt. 24then; and I will overthrow the chariots, vant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, Ecclus. 3% Lech. 4.6.& and those that ride in them; and the and will make thee as a signet: for 'I .;

horses and their riders shall come down, I have chosen thee, saith the Lord of hosts. & 13.10.

e Isai. 42. 1.

Before CHRIST

er. 519

Before CHRIST

cir. 520.

m Ps. 102.

n Jer. 25. 11,

Para . 24 Hag. 1.1.

Matt. 23. 35

+ Heb. with displausure.

p. Joel 2. 18.

2

& 35.15 Mic. 7. 19. Mal. 3. 7.

Jam. *8.
d. Chron.
36. 13, 16.

9

Isai. 47.6

was

I eh. 2. 1, 2.

Isai. 56. 1.

ZECHARI AH.
CHAP. I.

fro through the earth, and, behold, all
i Zechariah exhorteth to repentance. 7 The the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
vision of the horses. 12° At the prayer of

12 | Then the angel of the Lord anthe angel comfortable promises are made to

swered and said, O

LORD of hosts, how 13. Rev. 6. Jerusalem. 18 The vision of the four horns, long wilt thou not have mercy on Jeru- io. and the four carpenters.

salem and on the cities of Judah, against N

year of Darius, came the word of the threescore and ten years? b. Ezra 5- LORD "unto Zechariah, the son of Bere 13 And the LORD answered the angel

chiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, that talked with me with ogood words •Jer. 29. ja

2 The LORD hath been tsore dis- and comfortable words. pleased with your fathers.

14 So the angel that communed with 3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus Jer. 35.5 saith the LORD of hosts; Turn “ye unto saith the LORD of hosts; Í am Pjealous choice

me, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great Luke 15. 20. turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. jealousy.

4 Be ye not as your fathers, "unto 15 And I am very sore displeased with whom the former prophets have cried, the heathen that are at ease: for 'I

saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; but a little displeased, and they helped jelas... Turn ye now from your evil ways, and forward the affliction. Prekis.za from your evil doings: but they did not 16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Hos. 14. 1. hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the 'I am returned to Jerusalem with mer- & Beach! LORD.

cies: my house shall be built in it, saith 2. 10. & 8. 3. 5 Your fathers, where are they? and the LORD of hosts, and 'a line shall be the prophets, do they live for ever? stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

6 But 'my words and my statutes, 17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the which I commanded my servants the pro- Lord of hosts; My cities through + pros

+ Heb.good phets, did they not || take hold of your perity shall yet be spread abroad; tand • Isai. 51. 3. fathers? and they returned and said, the Lord shall yet comfort Zion, and % Like as the LORD of hosts thought to "shall yet choose Jerusalem. do unto us, according to our ways, and 18 | Then lifted I up mine eyes, and 3. 2. according to our doings, so hath he dealt saw, and behold four horns. with us.

19 And I said unto the angel that
7 Upon the four and twentieth day talked with me, What be these? And he
of the eleventh month, which is the answered me,' *These are the horns En
month Sebat, in the second year of which have scattered Judah, Israel, and
Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Jerusalem.
Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son 20 And the LORD shewed me four
of Iddo the prophet, saying,

carpenters.
8 I saw by night, and behold ha man 21 Then said I, What come these to
riding upon a red horse, and he stood do? And he spake, saying, These are the

among the myrtle trees that were in the horns which have scattered Judah, so i eb.6.3-7. bottom; and behind him were there 'red that no man did lift up his head: but 1 Or, bay. horses, ll speckled, and white.

these are come to fray them, to cast out 9 Then said I, O my lord, what are the horns of the Gentiles, which 'lifted y Pa 75- 44.5. these? And the angel that talked with up their horn over the land of Judah to me said unto me, I will shew thee what scatter it. these be.

CHAP. II. 10 And the man that stood among the 1 God, in the care of Jerusalem, sendeth to ke Hebr. 1. myrtle trees answered and said, These measure it. 6 The redemption of Zion.

are they whom the LORD hath sent to 10 The promise of God's presence.

walk to and fro through the earth.
1 Ps. 103. 20,
11 "And they answered the angel of I LJETED up mine eyes again, and

a man with a
the LORD that stood among the myrtle measuring line in his hand.
trees, and said, We have walked to and 2 Then said I, Whither goest thou?

1 Or, ceer