Zechariah 11

1-4 Open your borders to the immigrants, proud Lebanon! Your sentinel trees will burn. Weep, great pine trees! Mourn, you sister cedars! Your towering trees are cordwood. Weep Bashan oak trees! Your thick forest is now a field of stumps. Do you hear the wailing of shepherds? They’ve lost everything they once owned. Do you […]

Zechariah 12

Home Again in Jerusalem 1-2 War Bulletin: God’s Message concerning Israel,God’s Decree—the veryGodwho threw the skies into space, set earth on a firm foundation, and breathed his own life into men and women: “Watch for this: I’m about to turn Jerusalem into a cup of strong drink that will have the people who have set […]

Zechariah 13

Washing Away Sins 1 “On the Big Day, a fountain will be opened for the family of David and all the leaders of Jerusalem for washing away their sins, for scrubbing their stained and soiled lives clean. 2-3 “On the Big Day”—this isGod-of-the-Angel-Armies speaking—“I will wipe out the store-bought gods, erase their names from memory. […]

Zechariah 14

The Day Is Coming 1-2 Note well:God’s Judgment Day is on the way: “Plunder will be piled high and handed out. I’m bringing all the godless nations to war against Jerusalem— Houses plundered, women raped, Half the city taken into exile, the other half left behind.” 3-5 But thenGodwill march out against the godless nations […]