The family of the house of Shimei apart, and their wives

apart;

14 All the families that remain,

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Every family apart, and their wives apart.

In that day there shall be a fountain opened

To the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusa

lem,

For sin and for uncleanness. ·

2 And it shall come to pass in that day,

Saith Jehovah of hosts,

That I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land,

And they shall no more be remembered;

And the prophets also, and the impure spirit,

Will I cause to pass out of the land.

3 And it shall come to pass, when any one shall yet proph

esy,

That his father and mother shall say to him,

Even they that begat him, "Thou shalt not live ;

For thou hast spoken falsehood in the name of Jehovah.” And his father and mother that begat him shall pierce him through when he prophesieth.

4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophet shall be ashamed

Every one of his vision when he prophesieth;

Neither shall they wear a garment of hair, to deceive.

5 But each shall say, "I am no prophet;

I am a man that tilleth the ground;

For a man hath purchased me from my youth."

6 And when one shall say to him,

"What are these wounds in thy hands?"

He shall answer,

"Those with which I was wounded in the house of my

friends."

V.

Times of great calamity, which are to be followed, through the aid of Jehovah, by victory, prosperity, and holiness. CH. XIII. 7 — XIV.

7

AWAKE, O sword, against my shepherd,

Even against the man who is my fellow, saith Jehovah of

hosts!

Smite the shepherd, and let the sheep be scattered !

I will also turn my hand against the lambs.

8 And it shall come to pass in all the land, saith Jehovah, That two parts therein shall be cut off and die;

But the third part shall be left therein.

9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, And will refine them, as silver is refined,

1

And will try them, as gold is tried;

They shall call upon me, and I will hear them;

I will say, "It is my people."

And they shall say, "Jehovah is our God.”

Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh,

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

2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; And the city shall be taken,

And the houses shall be rifled,

And the women shall be ravished;

And half of the city shall go forth into captivity,

And the residue of the people shall not be cut off from

the city.

3 Then shall Jehovah go forth,

And fight against those nations,

As he once 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 be cloven in the middle of it, eastward and westward,

Into a very great valley;

And half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, And half of it toward the south.

5 And ye shall flee through the valley of my mountains,

For the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal;
Yea, ye shall flee, as ye fled before the earthquake
In the days of Uzziah, king of Judah.

And Jehovah, my God, will come,

And all his holy ones with him.

6 And it shall come to pass in that day

That there shall be no light, but cold and ice; 7 And there shall be one day,

(Known to Jehovah is it,)

It shall be neither day nor night;

But at the time of evening there shall be light. 8 And it shall come to pass in that day

That living waters shall go out from Jerusalem,
Half of them toward the eastern sea,

And half of them toward the western sea;

In summer and in winter shall they be.

9 And Jehovah shall be king over all the earth;

In that day shall Jehovah be one, and his name one.

10 The whole land shall be turned into a plain,

From Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem;

And the city shall be exalted and inhabited in her place, From the gate of Benjamin to the place of the former

And from the tower of Hananeel to the king's wine

presses.

11 Men shall dwell therein,

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And there shall be no more destruction;

But Jerusalem shall dwell securely.

And this shall be the plague

With which Jehovah will smite all the nations

Which warred against Jerusalem :

Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon

their feet,

And their eyes shall consume away in their sockets,
And their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

13 And it shall come to pass in that day,

That there shall be a great tumult among them from

Jehovah ;

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

And his hand shall rise up against the hand of his

neighbor.

14 And Judah also shall fight against Jerusalem ;

But the wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered together,

Gold and silver and apparel in great abundance.

15 And so shall be the plague of the horse,

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

And of every beast which shall be in those camps,
Even as this plague.

16 And it shall be, that every one that is left

Of all the nations which come against Jerusalem,
Even they shall go up, from year to year,
To worship the King, Jehovah of hosts,
And to keep the feast of tabernacles.
17 And it shall be that whoso will not go up,
Of the families of the earth, to Jerusalem,
To worship the King, Jehovah of hosts,
Upon them shall be no rain.

18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not,
Then not for them shall there be water.

The plague shall come upon them

With which Jehovah shall smite the nations Which go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt,

And the punishment of all the nations

That come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 20 In that day, upon the bells of the horses Shall be written, "Holy to Jehovah.” And the pots in the house of Jehovah Shall be as the bowls before the altar. 21 And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah Shall be holy to Jehovah of hosts;

And all that sacrifice shall come,

And shall take of them, and seethe therein.
And there shall be no more a trader

In the house of Jehovah of hosts, in that day.

MALACHI.

I.

God's peculiar regard for the Jewish nation manifested by a comparison

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THE prophecy of the word of Jehovah, concerning Israel, by Malachi.

2

I have loved you, saith Jehovah.

But ye say, "Wherein hast thou loved us?"

Was not Esau Jacob's brother, saith Jehovah?
Yet I loved Jacob,

3 And Esau I hated;

And I made his mountains a desolation,

And his inheritance to be habitations of the desert.

4 Although Edom say, "We are ruined,

Yet will we build again the desolate places,"

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts:

They may build, but I will throw down;

And men shall call them "The impious land,

The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for

ever."

5 And your eyes shall see it, and

ye

shall say,

"Great is Jehovah beyond the borders of Israel!"

II.

Against the priests, on account of their irreligion, their violations of the

law, and their complaints of wearisome service. — СÍ. I. 6 — II. 9.