them upon the head of Joshua the high priest, the son of Jehozadak.

And say unto him, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, there is a man whose name is Zemah; for it shall grow under him; and he shall build the temple of the LORD.

Yea, he shall build the temple of the LORD, and shall bear the ornament, and shall sit and reign upon his throne, and shall be priest also upon his throne: and there shall be peace between them.

And the crowns shall be for a memorial unto Helem, and Tobiah, and Jedaiah, and Hen the son of Zephaniah, in the temple of the LORD.

And they shall come from afar, which shall build the temple of the LORD. Then ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. And it shall come to pass, if ye will obey the voice of the LORD your God.
(Zechariah)
Chapter 7
Of fasting and works of mercy.

And it came to pass in the fourth year of Darius the king, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, which is called Chisleu, 2. When Sarezer and Regem-melech and their men sent into the house of God to pray before the LORD,

And they told the priests that were about the house of the LORD of hosts, and the prophets: Must I also weep in the fifth month, and abstain, as I have done these things many years?

And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying:

Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month these seventy years, have ye fasted unto me thus?

Or when ye did eat and drink, did ye not eat and drink for yourselves?

Is not this that the LORD preached by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited, and had abundance, and her cities round about, and men dwelt both in the south, and in the valley?

And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying:

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Judge ye aright, and shew kindness and mercy every man to his brother;

And do not wrong the widows, the fatherless, the stranger, or the poor; and let no man think evil in his heart against his brother.

But they would not hearken, and turned their backs unto me, and hardened their ears, that they heard not,

And set their hearts like unto a diamond, that they should not hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts sent in his spirit by the former prophets; wherefore great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.

And it came to pass thus: As they preached, and heard not; neither would I hear when they called, saith the LORD of hosts.

So I have scattered them among all the nations which know them not, and the land is left desolate behind them, that no man walketh therein, nor dwelleth therein: and the noble land is made desolate.
(Zechariah)
Chapter 8
Of the future of the Messiah and his kingdom:

And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I have been almost very jealous over Zion, and have been jealous over her in great wrath.

Thus saith the LORD; I will return unto Zion, and will dwell at Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts a mountain of holiness.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet dwell in the streets of Jerusalem old men and old women, and they that walk by sticks of great age.

And the streets of the city shall be full of little children and maidens playing in the streets thereof.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Do they think it impossible in the sight of the rest of the people at this time? Shall it therefore also be impossible in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will redeem my people from the land of the rising, and from the land of the going down of the sun.

And I will bring them to dwell in Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God in truth and righteousness.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Strengthen ye your hands, which hear these words at this time by the mouth of the prophets, in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts is laid, that the temple may be built.

For before those days the labour of men was vain, and the labour of beasts was nothing; neither was there peace from trouble to them that went out and to them that came in: but I sent all men away, every man against his neighbour.

But now will I not go with the remnant of this people, as in the days of old, saith the LORD
of hosts,

But they shall be seeds of peace. The vine shall yield her fruit, and the land shall yield her increase, and heaven shall yield her dew: and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

And it shall come to pass, as ye of the house of Judah and of the house of Israel have been a curse among the heathen, so will I redeem you, and ye shall be a blessing. Only fear not, and strengthen your hands.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to afflict you, when your fathers provoked me to anger, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not,

So now again in these days I intend to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Fear nothing at all.

And this is the thing which ye ought to do, speaking truth one to another, and judging rightly, and making peace in your gates;

And think no evil in his heart against his neighbour, neither take false oaths: for all these things I hate, saith the LORD.

And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying:

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fasts of the fourth, and of the fifth, and of the seventh, and of the tenth months, shall be unto the house of Judah joy and gladness, and joyful feasts of years. Only love truth and peace.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet come many nations, and the inhabitants of many cities,

And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, and say, Let us go to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: we will go with you also.

And many nations and multitudes of the Gentiles shall come to seek the LORD of hosts at Jerusalem, to pray before the LORD.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In that day shall ten men of all tongues of the Gentiles take a Jewish man by the tail, and say, We will go with you: for we hear that GOD is with you.
(Zechariah)
Chapter 9
Promise of the good deeds of God. Prophecy of the calling of the Gentiles.

This is the burden of which the LORD spake concerning the land of Hadrach, and concerning Damascus, upon which it trusted: for the LORD looketh upon men, and upon all the tribes of Israel,

And also concerning Hamath, which bordereth with her, concerning Tyre and Zidon also, which are almost wise.

For Tyre buildeth strong, and gathereth silver as the sand, and gold as the dung of the street.

But, behold, the LORD will destroy her, and will smite her power that she hath upon the sea, and she shall be as one burnt with fire.

And when Asklon shall see it, she shall be afraid, and Gaza shall be sore afraid: and Ekron shall be grieved when she seeth it. For the king of Gasea shall be finished, and there shall be no dwelling in Asklon.

In Ashdod shall strangers dwell, and I will cut off the glory of the Philistines: 7. And I will put their blood out of their mouth, and their abominations out of their teeth; and they also shall be left unto our God, and shall become as princes in Judah, and Ekron as the Jebusites.

And I myself will encamp round about mine house, that it be not permitted to stand, or to go about, that the beater pass over them no more: for I have now looked upon it with mine eyes.

But thou, daughter of Zion, rejoice greatly; and thou, daughter of Jerusalem, exult. Behold, thy king cometh unto thee, a righteous man, and a helper, poor, riding upon an ass, and upon a young colt of the ass!

For I will put away the chariots from Ephraim, and the horses from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be broken. For he shall teach peace among the nations; and his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the waters even unto the end of the world.

Thou also by the blood of thy covenant dost bring forth thy prisoners out of the pit, because there is no water in it.

Return ye therefore unto the stronghold, ye that are captives of hope: for this day also will I declare, and repay thee double.

For I have set Judah for a bow, and I have armed Ephraim; and I will raise up thy children, O
Zion, over thy children, O Greece; and I will set thee as a sword of giants.

And the LORD shall appear upon them, and his arrows shall go forth as the lightning. And the LORD HEART shall blow a trumpet, and shall come in as the weather at noonday.

The LORD of hosts shall preserve them, that they may devour,