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saith the Lord of hosts, saying: BEHOLD A 7 Are not these the words which the Lord
MAN, THE ORIENT IS HIS NAME: and under spoke by the hand of the former prophets, when
him shall he spring up, a shall build a temple to Jerusalem as yet was inhabited, and was wealthy,
the Lord. both itself and the cities round about it, and
13 Yea, he shall build a temple to the Lord: there were inhabitants towards the south, and
and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit, and in the plain?
rule upon his throne: and he shall be a priest 8 And the word of the Lord came to Zacharias,
upon his throne, and the counsel of peace shall saying:
be between them both. 9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge
14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and ye true judgment, and shew ye mercy and com-
Tobias, and Idaias, and to Hem, the son of So- passion every man to his brother.
phonias, a memorial in the temple of the Lord. 10 And oppress not the widow, and the fa-
15 And they that are far off, shall come and therless, and the stranger, and the poor: and let
shall build in the temple of the Lord: and you not a man devise evil in his heart against his
shall know that the Lord of hosts sent me to you. brother.
But this shall come to pass, if hearing you will 11 But they would not hearken, and they
hear the voice of the Lord your God. turned away the shoulder to depart: and they
stopped their ears, not to hear.
12 And they made their heart as the adamant
Chapter 7
stone, lest they should hear the law, and the
words which the Lord of hosts sent in his spirit
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king
by the hand of the former prophets: so a great
Darius, that the word of the Lord came to
indignation came from Lord of hosts.
Zacharias, in the fourth day of the ninth month,
13 And it came to pass that as he spoke, and
which is Casleu.
they heard not: so shall they cry, and I will not
2 When Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and the
hear, saith the Lord of hosts.
men that were with him, sent to the house of
14 And I dispersed them throughout all king-
God, to entreat the face of the Lord:
doms, which they know not: and the land was
3 To speak to the priests of the house of the
left desolate behind them, so that no man passed
Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying: Must
through or returned: and they changed the de-
I weep in the fifth month, or must I sanctify my-
lightful land into a wilderness.
self as I have now done for many years?
4 And the word of the Lord of hosts came to
me, saying: Chapter 8
5 Speak to all the people of the land, and
to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me,
mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for saying:
these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me? 2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have been
6 And when you did eat and drink, did you jealous for Sion with a great jealousy, and with
not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? a great indignation have I been jealous for her.