11 Open thy doors, aO Lebanon, that bthe fire may devour thy cedars.

2  cHowl, fir tree; bfor the cedar is fallen; because the ||mighty are spoiled:

cHowl, dO ye oaks of Bashan; for ||ethe forest of gthe vintage is come down.

3  There is a voice of chthe howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled:

A voice of the roaring of iyoung lions; for jthe pride of Jordan is spoiled.

4  Thus saith the Lord my God; kFeed the flock of lthe slaughter;

5  Whose mpossessors lslay them, and nhold themselves not guilty:

And they that sell them say, Blessed be the Lord; for oI am rich:

And their own shepherds pity them not.

6  For pI will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord:

But, lo, I will †deliver the men

Every one into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king:

And they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.

7  And kI will feed the flock of slaughter, ||even you, rO poor of the flock.

And I took unto me two staves; the one I called sBeauty, and the other I called ||Bands; and ktI fed the flock. 8 Three shepherds also uI cut off in one month; and my soul †lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me. 9 Then said I, I will not feed you: vthat that dieth, let it die; and that that is to ube cut off, let it be ucut off; and let the rest weat every one the flesh †of another. 10 And I took my staff, even sBeauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people. 11 And it was broken in that day: and ||so rthe poor of the flock xthat waited upon me knew that it was the word of the Lord. 12 And I said unto them, †If ye think good, ygive me my price; and if not, forbear. So zthey weighed for my price athirty pieces of silver. 13 And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto bthe potter: ca dgoodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took athe 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 thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land,

eWhich shall not visit those that be ||cut off,

eNeither shall seek the young one,

eNor fheal that that is broken,

Nor ||gfeed that that standeth still:

But hhe shall eat the flesh of the fat,

And tear their claws in pieces.

17  Woe to ithe idol shepherd hkthat leaveth the flock!

The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon lhis right eye:

His arm shall be clean dried up,

And lhis right eye shall be utterly darkened.

12 aThe burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord,

bWhich stretcheth forth the heavens, and clayeth the foundation of the earth,

And bdformeth the spirit of man within him.

2  Behold, eI will make Jerusalem fa cup of ||gtrembling unto all the people round about,

||When they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

3  And hin that day will I make Jerusalem ia burdensome stone for all people:

jAll that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces,

kThough all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

4  hIn that day, saith the Lord,

lI will smite every horse with mastonishment, and his rider with mmadness:

And nI will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah,

And lwill smite every horse of the people with mblindness.

5  And othe governors of Judah shall say in their heart,

||The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength

In the Lord of hosts their God.

6  hIn that day will I make othe governors of Judah plike an hearth of fire among the wood,

And like a torch of fire in a sheaf;

And qthey shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left:

And rJerusalem shall be inhabited again sin her own place, even in Jerusalem.

7  The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first,

That the glory of the house of David

And the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem

Do not magnify themselves against Judah.

8  hIn that day shall the Lord tdefend the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

And uhe that is ||†feeble among them hat that day shall be as David;

And the house of David shall be as God,

As vthe angel of the Lord before them.

9  And it shall come to pass hin that day,

That I will seek wto destroy all the nations

That come against Jerusalem.

10  And xI will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

The spirit of grace and of ysupplications:

And zthey shall look upon me whom they ahave pierced,

And bthey shall mourn for him, as cone mourneth for dhis only son,

And shall be cin bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

11  eIn that day fshall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem,

gAs the mourning of hHadadrimmon in the valley of iMegiddon.

12  And fthe land shall mourn, †kevery family apart;

The family of the house of David apart, and kltheir wives apart;

The family of the house of mNathan apart, and their wives apart;

13  The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart;

The family ||of nShimei apart, and their wives apart;

14  All the families that remain,

Every family apart, and their wives apart.

13 aIn that day there shall be ba fountain opened

To the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem

cFor sin and for †uncleanness.

2  And it shall come to pass ain that day, saith the Lord of hosts,

That dI will cut off ethe names of the idols out of the land,

And fthey shall no more be remembered:

And also I will gcause the prophets and hthe 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 name of the Lord:

And ihis father and his mother that begat him kshall thrust him through when he prophesieth.

4  And it shall come to pass ain that day,

That the prophets lshall be ashamed every one lof his vision, when he hath prophesied;

Neither mshall they wear †a rough garment †to deceive:

5  But he shall say, nI am no prophet, I am an husbandman;

For man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

6  And one shall say unto him, What are othese wounds in thine hands?

Then he shall answer, Those owith which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

7  Awake, O sword, against pmy shepherd, and against qthe man that is rmy fellow,

Saith the Lord of hosts:

stSmite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered:

And I will turn mine hand upon uthe little ones.

8  And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord,

vTwo parts therein shall be cut off and die;

But wthe third shall be left therein.

9  And I will bring wthe third part through the fire,

And xwill yrefine them as silver is refined,

And xwill ztry them as gold is tried:

aThey shall call on my name, and bI will hear them:

I cwill say, It is my people:

cAnd they shall say, The Lord is my God.

14 aBehold, the day of the Lord cometh,

And thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

2  For bI will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle;

And cthe city shall be taken, and dthe houses rifled, and dethe women ravished;

And fhalf of the city shall go forth into captivity,

And fthe residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

3  Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations,

gAs when he fought in the day of battle.

4  And his feet shall stand hin that day upon ithe 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 ka very great valley;

And half of the mountain shall lremove toward the north,

And half of it toward the south.

5  And ye shall flee to the valley of ||the mountains;

||For kthe valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal:

Yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before mthe earthquake

*In the days of Uzziah king of Judah:

And nothe Lord my God shall come,

And opall the saints with thee.

6  And it shall come to pass hin that day,

||That the light shall not be †clear, nor †dark:

7  But ||it shall be qone day rwhich shall be known to the Lord,

Not day, nor night:

But it shall come to pass, that sat evening time it shall be light.

8  And it shall be hin that day,

That tliving waters shall go out from Jerusalem;

Half of them toward uthe ||former sea,

And half of them toward uthe hinder sea:

vIn summer and in winter shall it be.

9  And wthe Lord shall be king over all the earth:

hIn that day shall there be xone Lord, and yhis name one.

10  All the land shall be ||turned zas a plain from aGeba to bRimmon south of Jerusalem:

And cit shall be lifted up, and d||inhabited in her place,

From eBenjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto fgthe corner gate,

And from fhthe tower of Hananeel unto the king’s iwinepresses.

11  And men shall dwell in it, and jthere shall be no more kutter destruction;

But Jerusalem ||shall be lsafely inhabited.

12  And this shall be mthe plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people

nThat have fought against Jerusalem;

Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,

And their eyes shall consume away in their holes,

And nntheir tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

13  And it shall come to pass oin that day,

That a great ptumult qfrom the Lord shall be among them;

And they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour,

And rhis hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

14  And ||Judah also shall fight ||at Jerusalem;

And sthe wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together,

tGold, and silver, and uapparel, in great abundance.

15  And mso shall be the plague vof the horse,

Of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass,

And of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.

16  And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations

nWhich came against Jerusalem

wShall even go up xfrom year to year

To worship ythe King, the Lord of hosts,

And zto keep athe feast of tabernacles.

17  And it shall be, bthat whoso will not come up

Of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem

To worship cthe King, the Lord of hosts,

Even dupon them shall be no rain.

18  And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, †ethat have no rain;

There shall be fthe plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen

That come not up zto keep the feast of tabernacles.

19  This shall be gthe ||punishment of Egypt,

And gthe punishment of all nations

That come not up zto keep the feast of tabernacles.

20  hIn that day shall there be upon the ||bells of the horses,

iHOLINESS UNTO THE LORD;

And kthe pots in the Lord’s house shall be like lthe bowls before the altar.

21  Yea, every kpot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts:

And all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and kseethe therein:

And hin that day mthere shall be no more nthe Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.

Malachi