and bring them under themselves with sling stones, that they may drink, and boil as of wine, and be filled as the laver, and as the corners of the altar.

And the LORD their God shall help them in that day, as he helpeth a flock of his people: for holy stones shall be set up in his land.

For what good thing have they before others, and what good thing have they before others?
Corn that beareth young men, and must that beareth virgins.
(Zechariah)
Chapter 10
Of the good things to be enjoyed in the kingdom of Christ.

Ask ye therefore of the LORD the rain of the sparrows, and the LORD will make clouds, and give you rain sufficient for all the increase of the field.

For the idols speak vain things, and the diviners see vain lies, and speak vain dreams, and their comfort is nothing: therefore they go astray like a flock, and faint, because there is no shepherd.

My wrath is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the goats: for the LORD of hosts will punish his flock, even the house of Judah, and will make them as a horse of war.

The corners, and the nails, and the bows, and the beaters, shall all come away from them.

And yet they shall be as the giants that tread the mire in the street in the battle, and shall fight: for the LORD will be with them, that the horsemen shall be put to shame.

And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and deliver the house of Joseph, and will restore them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as they were, when I had not cast them off. For I the LORD their God will hear them.

And Ephraim shall be as a giant, and her heart shall be glad as of wine: and her children shall see it, and rejoice that her heart is glad in the LORD.

I will blow unto them, and gather them: for I will redeem them, and they shall multiply as they have multiplied before.

And I will sow them among the nations, and they shall remember me in far countries: and they shall live with their children, and return.

For I will bring them again out of the land of Egypt, and will gather them out of Assyria, and will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, that there shall not be room for them.

And he shall pass through the sea of fear, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the waters shall dry up. Then shall the glory of Assyria be cut off, and the sceptre of Egypt shall cease.

I will strengthen them in the LORD, and they shall walk in his name, saith the LORD.
(Zechariah)
Chapter 11
Of the desolation of the Jewish land, caused by contempt of Christ, the true Shepherd.

Open thy door, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume thy cedars.

Make hay, ye fir trees: for the cedars are fallen, and the glorious building is destroyed. Hay, ye oaks of Bashan; for the strong forest is hewn down.

They hear the shepherds howling, because their glorious building is destroyed: they hear the young lions roaring, because the glory of Jordan is destroyed.

Thus saith the LORD my God, Beware of the sheep of the slaughter.

For their lords slay them, and think it no sin, and sell them, and say: Blessed be the LORD, I am rich: and their shepherds spare them not.

Therefore will I not spare the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD. And, behold, I will leave the people every man in the hand of another, and in the hand of his king, to destroy the land; and I will not deliver them out of their hand.

And I tended the lambs for the slaughter, because of the sheep that were in misery: and I took unto me two staves, the one I called Gentle, and the other I called Woe: and I tended the sheep.

And I destroyed three shepherds in one month: for I liked not them, neither would they like mine.

And I said: I will not take heed to you. That which dieth, let it die; that which languisheth, let it languish; and the remnant eat every man his flesh.

And I took my rod softly, and brake it, to keep my covenant which I had made with all nations.

And he was taken up that day. And the wretched sheep that hearkened unto me perceived that it was the word of the LORD.

And I said unto them: If it please you, bring how much I am worth; but if not, let it stand.
And they weighed how much I was worth, thirty pieces of silver.

And the LORD said unto me, Cast it, that it may be given to the potter. A very good sum of money, which they have esteemed me worthy of. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them into the house of the LORD, to be given to the potter.

And I brake my other staff, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee again the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

For, behold, I will raise up shepherds in the land, who shall not visit the faint, nor seek the broken, nor heal the broken, nor feed the sound; but the flesh of the fat shall they eat, and rend their hoofs.

O idolatrous shepherds who leave the flock! Let the sword come upon her arm and upon her right eye! Let their arm wither and their right eye grow dark!
(Zechariah)
Chapter 12
Church is unconquerable in the midst of tribulation in Christ crucified by the Spirit of grace and prayer.

This is the burden of the word of the LORD upon Israel, saith the LORD that stretched out the heavens, and founded the earth, and made the breath of man in him.

Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of stumbling for all the nations that are round about: for it shall be for Judah also, when Jerusalem is besieged.

Nevertheless in that day will I make Jerusalem a stone of burden unto all nations. And all that lift it up shall be cut in pieces: for all the nations of the earth shall be gathered together against it.

In that day, saith the LORD, I will make all horses afraid, and their riders afraid: but over Jerusalem will I have mine eyes open, and will afflict all the horses of the nations with blindness.

And the princes of Judah shall say in their heart, Let the inhabitants of Jerusalem be confident in the LORD of hosts their God.

In that day will I make the princes of Judah a fiery furnace in the wood, and a torch in the straw; and they shall consume both on the right hand, and on the left hand, all nations round about. And Jerusalem shall remain in her place at Jerusalem.

And the LORD shall save the tabernacles of Judah as of old, lest the house of David glory, or the inhabitants of Jerusalem, against Judah.

In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and it shall come to pass, that he that is weak among them in that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as the house of God, as the angel of the LORD before them.

And in that day will I remember to destroy all the heathen that are come against Jerusalem.

But upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, will I pour out the spirit of grace and of prayer: for they shall look upon me whom they have bruised, and shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for an infant; and shall be grieved for him, as one is grieved for a
first child.

In that day there shall be a great lamentation in Jerusalem, as there was in Hadad-rimon in the field of Megiddo.

And the land shall mourn, every family specially: the family of the house of David specially, and their wives specially; the family of the house of Nathan specially, and their wives specially,

The family of the house of Levi specially, and their wives specially; the family of Shimei specially, and their wives specially;

So all the rest of the generations, every one specially, and their wives also specially.
(Zechariah)
Chapter 13
From the inexhaustible fountain of God’s grace.

In that day shall the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem have a free open fountain against sin and uncleanness.

In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of idols out of the land, and they shall be remembered no more: and I will drive out of the land the prophets and unclean spirits,

And it shall come to pass, that if a man prophesy any more, his father and his mother which begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest falsely in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother which begat him shall bruise him, if he prophesy.

For it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall stand with shame in their visions, when they prophesy thereof; and they shall no more put on a smoking cloak, that they may deceive,

But shall say, I am no prophet, but a husbandman: for I have served men from my youth.

And if it be said unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? he shall say, So am I smitten in the house of them that love me.

Sword, arise upon my shepherd, and upon the man that is nigh unto me, saith the LORD of hosts. Smite the shepherd,