A Call to Repentance

Judgment on Nations

The Wickedness of Jerusalem

A Faithful Remnant^(AM)

Joy in God’s Faithfulness

The Command to Build God’s House^(A)

1 In ^(B)the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by ^(C)Haggai the prophet to ^(D)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to ^(E)Joshua the son of ^(F)Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, ² “Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, saying: ‘This people says, “The time has not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built.” ’ ”

³ Then the word of the Lord ^(G)came by Haggai the prophet, saying, ⁴ “Is it ^(H)time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this ^[a]temple to lie in ruins?” ⁵ Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(I)“Consider your ways!

⁷ Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways! ⁸ Go up to the ^(L)mountains and bring wood and build the ^[b]temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified,” says the Lord. ^9 (M)“You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, ^(N)I blew it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts. “Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house. ¹⁰ Therefore ^(O)the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. ¹¹ For I ^(P)called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on ^(Q)all the labor of your hands.”

The People’s Obedience

^12 (R)Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him; and the people feared the presence of the Lord. ¹³ Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, spoke the Lord’s message to the people, saying, ^(S)“I am with you, says the Lord.” ¹⁴ So ^(T)the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, ^(U)governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; ^(V)and they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, ¹⁵ on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.

The Coming Glory of God’s House

2 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first of the month, the word of the Lord came ^[c]by Haggai the prophet, saying: ² “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying: ^3 (W)‘Who is left among you who saw this ^[d]temple in its former glory? And how do you see it now? In comparison with it, ^(X)is this not in your eyes as nothing? ⁴ Yet now ^(Y)be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says the Lord; ‘and be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land,’ says the Lord, ‘and work; for I am with you,’ says the Lord of hosts. ^5 (Z)‘According to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so ^(AA)My Spirit remains among you; do not fear!’

⁶ “For thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(AB)‘Once more (it is a little while) ^(AC)I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land; ⁷ and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to ^(AD)the ^[e]Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this ^[f]temple with ^(AE)glory,’ says the Lord of hosts. ⁸ ‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,’ says the Lord of hosts. ^9 (AF)‘The glory of this latter ^[g]temple shall be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘And in this place I will give ^(AG)peace,’ says the Lord of hosts.”

The People Are Defiled

¹⁰ On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying, ¹¹ “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Now, ^(AH)ask the priests concerning the law, saying, ¹² “If one carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with the edge he touches bread or stew, wine or oil, or any food, will it become holy?” ’ ”

Then the priests answered and said, “No.”

¹³ And Haggai said, “If one who is ^(AI)unclean because of a dead body touches any of these, will it be unclean?”

So the priests answered and said, “It shall be unclean.”

¹⁴ Then Haggai answered and said, ^(AJ)“ ‘So is this people, and so is this nation before Me,’ says the Lord, ‘and so is every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean.

Promised Blessing

¹⁵ ‘And now, carefully ^(AK)consider from this day forward: from before stone was laid upon stone in the temple of the Lord— ¹⁶ since those days, ^(AL)when one came to a heap of twenty ephahs, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty baths from the press, there were but twenty. ^17 (AM)I struck you with blight and mildew and hail ^(AN)in all the labors of your hands; ^(AO)yet you did not turn to Me,’ says the Lord. ¹⁸ ‘Consider now from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from ^(AP)the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid—consider it: ^19 (AQ)Is the seed still in the barn? As yet the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yielded fruit. But from this day I will ^(AR)bless you.’ ”

Zerubbabel Chosen as a Signet

²⁰ And again the word of the Lord came to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying, ²¹ “Speak to Zerubbabel, ^(AS)governor of Judah, saying:

²³ ‘In that day,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘I will take you, Zerubbabel My servant, the son of Shealtiel,’ says the Lord, ^(AW)‘and will make you like a signet ring; for ^(AX)I have chosen you,’ says the Lord of hosts.”

A Call to Repentance^(A)

1 In the eighth month ^(B)of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came ^(C)to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of ^(D)Iddo the prophet, saying, ² “The Lord has been very angry with your fathers. ³ Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Return ^(E)to Me,” says the Lord of hosts, “and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts. ⁴ “Do not be like your fathers, ^(F)to whom the former prophets preached, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(G)“Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.” ’ But they did not hear nor heed Me,” says the Lord.

“So they returned and said:

Vision of the Horses

⁷ On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet: ⁸ I saw by night, and behold, ^(J)a man riding on a red horse, and it stood among the myrtle trees in the hollow; and behind him were ^(K)horses: red, sorrel, and white. ⁹ Then I said, ^(L)“My lord, what are these?” So the angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what they are.”

¹⁰ And the man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, ^(M)“These are the ones whom the Lord has sent to walk to and fro throughout the earth.”

^11 (N)So they answered the Angel of the Lord, who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked to and fro throughout the earth, and behold, all the earth is ^[a]resting quietly.”

The Lord Will Comfort Zion

¹² Then the Angel of the Lord answered and said, “O Lord of hosts, ^(O)how long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You were angry ^(P)these seventy years?”

¹³ And the Lord answered the angel who talked to me, with ^(Q)good and comforting words. ¹⁴ So the angel who spoke with me said to me, ^[b]“Proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts:

¹⁶ ‘Therefore thus says the Lord:

¹⁷ “Again proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts:

Vision of the Horns

¹⁸ Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were four ^(Z)horns. ¹⁹ And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these?”

So he answered me, ^(AA)“These are the ^[f]horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

²⁰ Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen. ²¹ And I said, “What are these coming to do?”

So he said, “These are the ^(AB)horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could lift up his head; but ^[g]the craftsmen are coming to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations that ^(AC)lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

Vision of the Measuring Line

2 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, ^(AD)a man with a measuring line in his hand. ² So I said, “Where are you going?”

And he said to me, ^(AE)“To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”

³ And there was the angel who talked with me, going out; and another angel was coming out to meet him, ⁴ who said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying: ^(AF)‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it. ⁵ For I,’ says the Lord, ‘will be ^(AG)a wall of fire all around her, ^(AH)and I will be the glory in her midst.’ ”

Future Joy of Zion and Many Nations

⁶ “Up, up! Flee ^(AI)from the land of the north,” says the Lord; “for I have ^(AJ)spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven,” says the Lord. ⁷ “Up, Zion! ^(AK)Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.”

⁸ For thus says the Lord of hosts: “He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who ^(AL)touches you touches the ^[h]apple of His eye. ⁹ For surely I will ^(AM)shake My hand against them, and they shall become ^[i]spoil for their servants. Then ^(AN)you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me.

^10 (AO)“Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I ^(AP)will dwell in your midst,” says the Lord. ^11 (AQ)“Many nations shall be joined to the Lord ^(AR)in that day, and they shall become ^(AS)My people. And I will dwell in your midst. Then ^(AT)you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you. ¹² And the Lord will ^(AU)take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem. ^13 (AV)Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for He is aroused ^(AW)from His holy habitation!”

Vision of the High Priest

3 Then he showed me ^(AX)Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, and ^(AY)Satan^[j] standing at his right hand to oppose him. ² And the Lord said to Satan, ^(AZ)“The Lord rebuke you, Satan! The Lord who ^(BA)has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! ^(BB)Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?”

³ Now Joshua was clothed with ^(BC)filthy garments, and was standing before the Angel.

⁴ Then He answered and spoke to those who stood before Him, saying, “Take away the filthy garments from him.” And to him He said, “See, I have removed your iniquity from you, ^(BD)and I will clothe you with rich robes.”

⁵ And I said, “Let them put a clean ^(BE)turban on his head.”

So they put a clean turban on his head, and they put the clothes on him. And the Angel of the Lord stood by.

The Coming Branch

⁶ Then the Angel of the Lord admonished Joshua, saying, ⁷ “Thus says the Lord of hosts:

Vision of the Lampstand and Olive Trees

4 Now ^(BQ)the angel who talked with me came back and wakened me, ^(BR)as a man who is wakened out of his sleep. ² And he said to me, “What do you see?”

So I said, “I am looking, and there is ^(BS)a lampstand of solid gold with a bowl on top of it, ^(BT)and on the stand seven lamps with seven pipes to the seven lamps. ^3 (BU)Two olive trees are by it, one at the right of the bowl and the other at its left.” ⁴ So I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, “What are these, my lord?”

⁵ Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are?”

And I said, “No, my lord.”

⁶ So he answered and said to me:

⁸ Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

¹¹ Then I answered and said to him, “What are these ^(CG)two olive trees—at the right of the lampstand and at its left?” ¹² And I further answered and said to him, “What are these two olive branches that drip ^[n]into the receptacles of the two gold pipes from which the golden oil drains?”

¹³ Then he answered me and said, “Do you not know what these are?”

And I said, “No, my lord.”

¹⁴ So he said, ^(CH)“These are the two ^[o]anointed ones, ^(CI)who stand beside the Lord of the whole earth.”

Vision of the Flying Scroll

5 Then I turned and raised my eyes, and saw there a flying ^(CJ)scroll.

² And he said to me, “What do you see?”

So I answered, “I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits.”

³ Then he said to me, “This is the ^(CK)curse that goes out over the face of the whole earth: ‘Every thief shall be expelled,’ according to this side of the scroll; and, ‘Every perjurer shall be expelled,’ according to that side of it.”

Vision of the Woman in a Basket

⁵ Then the angel who talked with me came out and said to me, “Lift your eyes now, and see what this is that goes forth.”

⁶ So I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “It is a ^[p]basket that is going forth.”

He also said, “This is their resemblance throughout the earth: ⁷ Here is a lead disc lifted up, and this is a woman sitting inside the basket”; ⁸ then he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her down into the basket, and threw the lead ^[q]cover over its mouth. ⁹ Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were two women, coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a ^(CO)stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.

¹⁰ So I said to the ^(CP)angel who talked with me, “Where are they carrying the basket?”

¹¹ And he said to me, “To ^(CQ)build a house for it in ^(CR)the land of ^[r]Shinar; when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its base.”

Vision of the Four Chariots

6 Then I turned and raised my eyes and looked, and behold, four chariots were coming from between two mountains, and the mountains were mountains of bronze. ² With the first chariot were ^(CS)red horses, with the second chariot ^(CT)black horses, ³ with the third chariot white horses, and with the fourth chariot dappled horses—strong steeds. ⁴ Then I answered ^(CU)and said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”

⁵ And the angel answered and said to me, ^(CV)“These are four spirits of heaven, who go out from their ^(CW)station before the Lord of all the earth. ^6 [s]The one with the black horses is going to ^(CX)the north country, the white are going after them, and the dappled are going toward the south country.” ⁷ Then the strong steeds went out, eager to go, that they might ^(CY)walk to and fro throughout the earth. And He said, “Go, walk to and fro throughout the earth.” So they walked to and fro throughout the earth. ⁸ And He called to me, and spoke to me, saying, “See, those who go toward the north country have given rest to My ^(CZ)Spirit in the north country.”

The Command to Crown Joshua

⁹ Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: ¹⁰ “Receive the gift from the captives—from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have come from Babylon—and go the same day and enter the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah. ¹¹ Take the silver and gold, make ^(DA)an^[t] elaborate crown, and set it on the head of ^(DB)Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest. ¹² Then speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, saying:

¹⁴ “Now the ^[w]elaborate crown shall be ^(DH)for a memorial in the temple of the Lord ^[x]for Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Hen the son of Zephaniah. ¹⁵ Even ^(DI)those from afar shall come and build the temple of the Lord. Then you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you. And this shall come to pass if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.”

Obedience Better than Fasting

7 Now in the fourth year of King Darius it came to pass that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, on the fourth day of the ninth month, Chislev, ² when ^[y]the people sent ^[z]Sherezer, with Regem-Melech and his men, to ^[aa]the house of God, ^[ab]to pray before the Lord, ³ and to ^(DJ)ask the priests who were in the house of the Lord of hosts, and the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in ^(DK)the fifth month and ^[ac]fast as I have done for so many years?”

⁴ Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, ⁵ “Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests: ‘When you ^(DL)fasted and mourned in the fifth ^(DM)and seventh months ^(DN)during those seventy years, did you really fast ^(DO)for Me—for Me? ^6 (DP)When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves? ⁷ Should you not have obeyed the words which the Lord proclaimed through the ^(DQ)former prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and ^(DR)the ^[ad]South and the Lowland were inhabited?’ ”

Disobedience Resulted in Captivity

⁸ Then the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying, ⁹ “Thus says the Lord of hosts:

¹¹ “But they refused to heed, ^(DV)shrugged^[af] their shoulders, and ^(DW)stopped^[ag] their ears so that they could not hear. ¹² Yes, they made their ^(DX)hearts like flint, ^(DY)refusing to hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. ^(DZ)Thus great wrath came from the Lord of hosts. ¹³ Therefore it happened, that just as He proclaimed and they would not hear, so ^(EA)they called out and I would not listen,” says the Lord of hosts. ¹⁴ “But ^(EB)I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no one passed through or returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate.”

Jerusalem, Holy City of the Future

8 Again the word of the Lord of hosts came, saying, ² “Thus says the Lord of hosts:

³ “Thus says the Lord:

⁴ “Thus says the Lord of hosts:

⁶ “Thus says the Lord of hosts:

⁷ “Thus says the Lord of hosts:

⁹ “Thus says the Lord of hosts:

^11 (ET)But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as in the former days,’ says the Lord of hosts.

¹⁴ “For thus says the Lord of hosts:

¹⁸ Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, ¹⁹ “Thus says the Lord of hosts:

²⁰ “Thus says the Lord of hosts:

²³ “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘In those days ten men ^(FM)from every language of the nations shall ^(FN)grasp the ^[ar]sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard ^(FO)that God is with you.” ’ ”

Israel Defended Against Enemies

The Coming King^(GB)

God Will Save His People

Restoration of Judah and Israel

Desolation of Israel

Prophecy of the Shepherds

⁴ Thus says the Lord my God, “Feed the flock for slaughter, ⁵ whose owners slaughter them and ^(IA)feel no guilt; those who sell them ^(IB)say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich’; and their shepherds do ^(IC)not pity them. ⁶ For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land,” says the Lord. “But indeed I will give everyone into his neighbor’s hand and into the hand of his king. They shall ^[bg]attack the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand.”

⁷ So I fed the flock for slaughter, ^[bh]in particular ^(ID)the poor of the flock. I took for myself two staffs: the one I called ^[bi]Beauty, and the other I called ^[bj]Bonds; and I fed the flock. ⁸ I ^[bk]dismissed the three shepherds ^(IE)in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me. ⁹ Then I said, “I will not feed you. ^(IF)Let what is dying die, and what is perishing perish. Let those that are left eat each other’s flesh.” ¹⁰ And I took my staff, ^[bl]Beauty, and cut it in two, that I might break the covenant which I had made with all the peoples. ¹¹ So it was broken on that day. Thus ^(IG)the^[bm] poor of the flock, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the Lord. ¹² Then I said to them, “If it is ^[bn]agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain.” So they ^(IH)weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

¹³ And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the ^(II)potter”—that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord for the potter. ¹⁴ Then I cut in two my other staff, ^[bo]Bonds, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

¹⁵ And the Lord said to me, ^(IJ)“Next, take for yourself the implements of a foolish shepherd. ¹⁶ For indeed I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are cut off, nor seek the young, nor heal those that are broken, nor feed those that still stand. But he will eat the flesh of the fat and tear their hooves in ^(IK)pieces.

The Coming Deliverance of Judah

12 The ^[bp]burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, ^(IM)who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and ^(IN)forms the spirit of man within him: ² “Behold, I will make Jerusalem ^(IO)a cup of ^[bq]drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. ^3 (IP)And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem ^(IQ)a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it. ⁴ In that day,” says the Lord, ^(IR)“I will strike every horse with confusion, and its rider with madness; I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. ⁵ And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in the Lord of hosts, their God.’ ⁶ In that day I will make the governors of Judah ^(IS)like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place—Jerusalem.

⁷ “The Lord will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not become greater than that of Judah. ⁸ In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the one who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of the Lord before them. ⁹ It shall be in that day that I will seek to ^(IT)destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Mourning for the Pierced One

^10 (IU)“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will ^(IV)look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him ^(IW)as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. ¹¹ In that day there shall be a great ^(IX)mourning in Jerusalem, ^(IY)like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of ^[br]Megiddo. ^12 (IZ)And the land shall mourn, every family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of ^(JA)Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; ¹³ the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself, and their wives by themselves; ¹⁴ all the families that remain, every family by itself, and their wives by themselves.

Idolatry Cut Off

13 “In that ^(JB)day ^(JC)a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for ^(JD)uncleanness.

² “It shall be in that day,” says the Lord of hosts, “that I will ^(JE)cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they shall no longer be remembered. I will also cause ^(JF)the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart from the land. ³ It shall come to pass that if anyone still prophesies, then his father and mother who begot him will say to him, ‘You shall ^(JG)not live, because you have spoken lies in the name of the Lord.’ And his father and mother who begot him ^(JH)shall thrust him through when he prophesies.

⁴ “And it shall be in that day that ^(JI)every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they will not wear ^(JJ)a robe of coarse hair to deceive. ^5 (JK)But he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a farmer; for a man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.’ ⁶ And one will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your ^[bs]arms?’ Then he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’

The Shepherd Savior

The Day of the Lord^(JV)

¹⁰ All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. ^[bz]Jerusalem shall be raised up and ^(KI)inhabited in her place from Benjamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, ^(KJ)and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.

¹² And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem:

The Nations Worship the King

¹⁶ And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall ^(KQ)go up from year to year to ^(KR)worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep ^(KS)the Feast of Tabernacles. ^17 (KT)And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. ¹⁸ If the family of ^(KU)Egypt will not come up and enter in, ^(KV)they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. ¹⁹ This shall be the ^[cb]punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

²⁰ In that day ^(KW)“HOLINESS TO THE LORD” shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. The ^(KX)pots in the Lord’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar. ²¹ Yes, ^[cc]every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the Lord of hosts. Everyone who sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in them. In that day there shall no longer be a ^(KY)Canaanite ^(KZ)in the house of the Lord of hosts.