Christ the Branch promised. CHAP. IV, V, VI. Babylon's ruin signifed from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten of raiment. cubits. 5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon 3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for and clothed him with garments. And the angel every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this of the LORD stood by. side, according to it; and every one that swear6 And the angel of the LORD protested unto eth shall be cut off as on that side, according to it. Joshua, saying, 4 I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts. 7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my into the house of him that sweareth falsely by charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee house, and shall consume it with the timber places to walk among these that stand by. thereof and the stones thereof. 8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou 5 Then the angel that talked with me went and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, men wondered at. for behold, I will bring forth and see what is this that goeth forth. my servant The BRANCH. 6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is 9 For behold the stone that I have laid before an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: be-This is their resemblance through all the earth. hold, I will engrave the_graving thereof, saith 7 And behold, there was lifted up a talent of the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the ini- lead and this is a woman that sitteth in the quity of that land in one day. midst of the epha!. 10 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig-tree. CHAP. IV. The type of the golden candlestick. AND the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep, 2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick, all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof: 3 And two olive-trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left 8 And he said, This is wickedness. And he The vision of the four chariots. side thereofwered and spake to the angel that Aooked, and behold, there came four chariots talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord? out from between two mountains; and the moun5 Then the angel that talked with me answer- tains were mountains of brass. ed and said unto me, Knowest thou not what 2 In the first chariot were red horses; and in these be? and I said, No, my lord. the second chariot black horses; 6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. 3 And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grizzled and bay horses. 4 Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord? 5 And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth. 7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace, unto it. 8 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto 6 The black horses which are therein go forth me, saying, into the north country; and the white go forth 9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foun-after them; and the grizzled go forth toward dation of this house; his hands shall also finish the south country. it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts 7 And the bay went forth, and sought to go that hath sent me unto you. they might walk to and fro through the earth: 10 For who hath despised the day of small and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro things for they shall rejoice, and shall see the through the earth. So they walked to and fro plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those through the earth. seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which 8 Then cried he upon me, and spake unto ine, run to and fro through the whole earth. saying, Behold, these that go toward the north 11 ¶ Then answered I, and said unto him, What country have quieted my spirit in the north are these two olive-trees upon the right side of country. saying, the candlestick and upon the left side thereof? 9 And the word of the LORD came unto me, 12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through 10 Take of them of the captivity, even of He!the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of dai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are comie themselves? from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephanial); 11 Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest; 13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord. 14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the LORD of the whole earth. CHAP. V. The vision of the flying roll. THEN I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. 2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length there 12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD: 13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD: Bin the cause of the Jews captivity. ZECHARIAH. Joy and enlargement are promised and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and! 4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall rule upon his throne: and he shall be a priest yet old men and old women dwell in the streets upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in be between them both. his hand for very age. 14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the LORD. 15 And they that are far off shall come and build In the temple of the LORD; and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God. CHAP. VII. Hypocrisy in fasts reproved. ND it came to pass in the fourth year of Aking Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu; 2 When they had sent unto the house of God, Sherezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to pray before the LORD, 3 And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years? 5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys 7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; 8 And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness. 9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built. 10 For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every 41 Then came the word of the LORD of hosts one against his neighbour. unto me, saying, 11 But now I will not be unto the residue of this 5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to people as in the former days, saith the LORD of the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourn-hosts. to me? ed in the fifth and seventh month, even those 12 For the seed shall he prosperous; the vine seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their 6 And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink. dew; and I will cause the remnant of this peodid not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for your-ple to possess all these things. selves? 13 And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a 7 Should ye not hear the words which the LORD curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and hath cried by the former prophets when Jerusa-house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye lem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands cities thereof round about her, when men inhabit-be strong. ed the south and the plain? 14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought 8 And the word of the LORD came unto to punish you, when your fathers provoked me Zechariah, saying, to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repent Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, ed not: Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and 15 So again have I thought in these days to do compassions every man to his brother: well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: 10 And oppress not the widow, nor the father-fear ye not. less, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none 16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak of you imagine evil against his brother in your ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: heart. 11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away 17 And let none of you imagine evil in your the shoulder, and stopped their cars, that they hearts against his neighbour; and love no false should not hear. oath for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD. 12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his Spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts. 18 1 And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying, 19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the 13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and 14 But Iscattered them with a whirlwind among peace. all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate. CHAP. VIII. The restoration of Jerusalem. 20 Thus saith the LORD of hosts: It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities: 21 And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: GAIN the word of the LORD of hosts came I will go also. A to me, saying, 22 Yea, many people and strong nations shall 2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous! come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for to pray before the LORD. her with great fury, 23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days 3 Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold, Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem out of all languages of the nations, even shall and Jerusalem shall be called, A city of truth; take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, sayand the mountain of the LORD of hosts The ing, We will go with you: for we have heard holy mountain. that God is with you. Judah's restoration foretold 3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle. THE burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of many as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD. 4 Out of him came forth the corner, out of 2 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Ty-him the nail, out of him the battle-bow, out of rus and Zidon, though it be very wise. Lim every oppressor together. 3 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and 5 1 And they shall be as nighty men, which heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the tread down their enemies in the mire of the mire of the streets. streets in the battle: and they shall fight, be4 Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he cause the LORD is with them, and the riders ou will smite her power in the sea; and she shall horses shall be confounded. be devoured with fire. 6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, 5 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; bring them again to place them; for I have for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the mercy upon them: and they shall be as though king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD not be inhabited. their God, and will hear them. 6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and 17 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty will cut off the pride of the Philistines. man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD. 8 I will hiss for them, and gather them; for 1 have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased. 7 And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite. 8 And I will encamp about ry house because 9 And I will sow them among the people: and of the army, because of him that passeth by, and they shall remember me in far countries; and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor they shall live with their children, and turn shall pass through them any more: for now have again. I seen with mine eyes. 10 I will bring them again also out of the land 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King I will bring them into the land of Gilead and cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salva- Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them. tion; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a 11 And he shall pass through the sea with colt the foal of an ass. alliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, 10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephrain, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle- the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away. unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be 12 And I will strengthen them in the LORD; from sea even to sea, and from the river even to and they shall walk up and down in his name, the ends of the earth. saith the LORD. 11 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water. 12 ¶ Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; 13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. 2 Howl, fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down. 3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of 14 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and Jordan is spoiled. his arrow shall go forth as the lightning and 4 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the the Lord GoD shall blow the trumpet, and shall flock of the slaughter; go with whirlwinds of the south. 15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour and subdue with sling-stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar. 5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not. 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: bm lo, I will deliver the 16 And the LORD their God shant save them in men every one into his neighbour's hand, and that day as the flock of his people: for they shall into the hand of his king: and they shall smite be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an en- the land, and out of their hand I will not deli sign upon his land. ver them. 17 For how great is his goodness, and how 7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, enen great is his beauty! corn shall make the young you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me men cheerful, and new wine the maids. two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock. CHAP. X. God is to be sought, and not idols. 8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; ASK ve of the LORD rain in the time of the and my soul loathed them, and their soul also latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright abhorred me. clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every 9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that that one grass in the field. dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, 2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the let it be cut off; and let the rest eat, every one diviners have seen a lie, and have told false the flesh of another. dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they 10 T And I took my staff, even Beauty, and went their way as a dock, they were troubled cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant because there was no shepherd. which I had made with all the people. The type of a foolish shepherd. ZECHARIAH. The death of Christ preaicted. 11 And it was broken in that day: and so the and their wives apart; the family of the house poor of the tlock that waited upon me knew of Nathan apart, and tlicir wives apart; 13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and that it was the word of the LORD. 12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weigh-and theft wives apart; ed for my price thirty pieces of silver. CHAP. XIII. 14 All the families that remain, every family 13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the apart, and their wives apart potter: a goodly price that I was prized at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD. 14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. 15 And the LORD said unto me, Take unto three yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd. 16 For lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces. 17 Wo to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: :is arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. CHAP. XII. A fountain for sin, &c. N that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the naines of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land. 3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the nanie of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth. 4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive: 5sbandman, say, aut no prophet, I am a husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth. The restoration of Judah. THE burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. 2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and of my friends against Jerusalem. 6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thy hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house 7 Awake, Osword, against my Shepherd, and 3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a against the man that is my fellow, saith the burdensome stone for all people: all that burden LORD of hosts: smite the Shepherd, and the themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn my all the people of the earth be gathered together hand upon the little ones. against it. 4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every liorse of the people with blindness. 5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God. 6 In that day will I make the governors of Ju 8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, The LORD is my God. CHAP. XIV. Christ's coming and kingdom. dah like a hearth of fire among the wood, and like BEHOLD, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. all the people round about, on the right hand 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusaand on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inha-lem to battle; and the city shall be taken, aud bited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. the houses rifled, and the women ravished; 7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, first, that the glory of the house of David and and the residue of the people shall not be cut off the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not from the city. magnify themselves against Judah. 8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among then at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. 3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. 4 ¶ And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, toward the north, and halfof it toward the south. and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spi- 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mounrit of grace and of supplications: and they shall tains; for the valley of the mountains shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall fee like as ye shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his fled from before the earthquake in the days of only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God one that is in bitterness for his first-born. shall come, and all the saints with thee. 11 In that day shall there be a great mourning 6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that In Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon the light shall not be clear, nor dark: in the valley of Megiddon. 7 But, it shall be one day which shall be known 12 And the land shall mourn, every family to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come apart; the family of the house of David apart, to pass, that at evening time it shall be light. The plague of Jerusalem's enemies. CHAP. XIV. The remnant shall turn to the Lord. 8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters 15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them to-the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of ward the former sea, and half of them toward the all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. plague. 9 And the LORD shall be King over all the 16 And it shall come to pass, that every one earth in that day shall there be one LORD, and that is left of all the nations which came against his name onc. Jerusalem, shall even go up from year to year 10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to Geba to Rinmon, south of Jerusalem: and it keep the feast of tabernacles. shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, 17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusaleim gate, unto the corner-gate, and from the tower to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even of Hananeel unto the king's wine-presses. upon them shall be no rain. 11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be 18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall come not, that have no rain; there shall be the be safely inhabited. plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the hea12 1 And this shall be the plague wherewith then that come not up to keep the feast of taberthe LORD will smite all the people that have nacles. fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall con- 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and sume away while they stand upon their feet, and the punishment of all nations that come not up their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. 20 in that day shall there be upon the bells 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; a great tumult from the LORD shall be among and the pots in the LORD's house shall be like them; and they shall lay hold every one on the the bowls before the altar. hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise 21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah up against the hand of his neighbour. shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and 14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; all they that sacrifice shall come and take of and the wealth of all the heathen round about them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of apparel, in great abundance. the LORD of hosts. CHAP. I. ¶ MALACHI. Israel's ingratitude to God. among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts. 12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible. 2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, 13 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Ja-it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD cob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, 3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an and his heritage waste for the dragons of the offering: should I accept this of your hand? wilderness. saith the Lord. . CHAP. II. The priests sharply reproved. 4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, 14 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in but we will return and build the desolate places; his flock_a_male, and voweth, and sacrificeth thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great but I will throw down; and they shall call them, King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name The border of wickedness, and, The people is dreadful among the heathen. against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever. And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel. 6 A son honoureth his father, and a servant AND now, O ye priests, this commandment his master: if then I be a father, where is my 2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have have we despised thy name? cursed them already, because ye do not lay it is for you. 7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and to heart. ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that 3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible dung upon your faces, even the dung of your 8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not solemn feasts; and one shall take you away evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not with it. evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be 4 And ye shall know that I have sent this coinpleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith mandment unto you, that my covenant might the LORD of hosts. be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. 9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he 5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; will be gracious unto us: this hath been by and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith your means: will he regard your persons? saith he feared me, and was afraid before my name. the LORD of hosts. 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and ini 10 Who is there even among you that would quity was not found in his lips: he walked with shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle me in peace and equity, and did turn many fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure away from iniquity. in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I 7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, accept an offering at your hand. and they should seck the law at his mouth: for 11 For, from the rising of the sun even unto he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. the going down of the same, my name shall 8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have be great among the Gentiles; and in every place caused many to stumble at the law; ye have incense shall be offered unto my name, and corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD a pure offering: for my name shall be great'of hosts. |