fifteen so once more have I purposed in lately to deliver good to Jerusalem and also to your home of Judah; ofear not.

19 “Thus suggests the Lord of hosts: The rapidly in the vfourth month along with the rapid of your wfifth plus the rapidly from the xseventh and the speedy from the ytenth shall be to your house of Judah zseasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts.

Hebrew poetry lacks rhyme and normal meter. Its most unique and pervasive element is parallelism. Most poetic traces are made up of two (from time to time a few) balanced segments (the harmony is frequently unfastened, with the 2nd phase normally relatively shorter than the 1st). the 2nd phase both echoes (synonymous parallelism), contrasts (antithetic parallelism) or syntactically completes (synthetic parallelism) the first. These three sorts are generalizations and therefore are not wholly ample to describe the prosperous wide variety which the creativity of the poets has accomplished in the fundamental two-phase line framework.

8 In one thirty day period wI wrecked the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

five  oAshkelon shall see it, and be scared; Gaza way too, and shall writhe in anguish; Ekron also, due to the fact its hopes are confounded. The king shall perish from Gaza; Ashkelon shall be uninhabited; 6  pa mixed people2 shall dwell in Ashdod, and I'll Minimize off the satisfaction of Philistia.

twelve Then I claimed to them, “If It appears good for you, give me my wages; but if not, hold them.” And they weighed out as my wages zthirty parts of silver.

two  For fthe house gods gutter nonsense, as well as the diviners see lies; hthey tell Bogus dreams and give vacant consolation. as a result ithe people today wander like sheep; They can be stricken for deficiency of a shepherd.

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Hebrew superscriptions on the Psalms acquaint us by having an ancient method of classification: (one) mizmor

5 pThose who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and people who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, qI are getting to be prosperous,’ and their own shepherds don't have any pity on them.

three  j“My anger is hot versus the shepherds, and kI will punish the leaders;1 for lthe Lord of hosts cares for his flock, your home of Judah, and could make them like his majestic steed in battle. four  From him shall come mthe cornerstone, from him nthe tent peg, from him the struggle bow, from him each individual ruler—oall of them with each other.

i. About four many years with the time of the prophecy, Zion was comforted, and Jerusalem was specially chosen. The temple was rebuilt 4 a long time soon after Zechariah gave this prophecy.

View Chuck Swindoll's chart of Zechariah, which divides the book into important sections and highlights themes and key verses.

eight:thirteen And it shall arrive at go, that as ye have been a curse One of the heathen, O household of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I help you save you, and ye shall become a blessing: anxiety not, but Permit your arms be robust. 8:fourteen For Hence saith the LORD of hosts; As I believed to punish you, Whenever your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not: eight:fifteen So again have I believed in these days to accomplish perfectly more info unto Jerusalem also to the house of Judah: dread ye not. eight:16 they are the things which ye shall do; talk ye each individual person the reality to his neighbour; execute the judgment of reality and peace as part of your gates: 8:seventeen And Allow none of you think about evil within your hearts versus his neighbour; and love no Fake oath: for every one of these are things which I dislike, saith the LORD. eight:18 as well as the word with the LORD of hosts came unto me, expressing, 8:19 Therefore saith the LORD of hosts; The rapid of your fourth thirty day period, along with the quickly in the fifth, as well as quickly in the seventh, as well as the speedy from the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah Pleasure and gladness, and cheerful feasts; consequently appreciate the truth and peace. 8:twenty Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall nevertheless arrive at go, that there shall come individuals, as well as the inhabitants of many cities: eight:21 as well as inhabitants of 1 metropolis shall go to a different, expressing, Let us go speedily to pray prior to the LORD, and to hunt the LORD of hosts: I will go also. eight:22 Yea, Lots of individuals and powerful nations shall come to look for the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, also to pray prior to the LORD. eight:23 Therefore saith the LORD of hosts; In Those people days it shall arrive at go, that ten Gentlemen shall get maintain away from all languages with the nations, even shall consider keep of your skirt of him That may be a Jew, stating, We'll go with you: for We've got heard that God is with you. Chapter nine