Category Archives: Z’kharyah (Zec)

1 Open your doors, L’vanon, so that fire can consume your cedars. 2 Wail, cypress, because the cedar has fallen, those splendid trees are ruined. Wail, oaks of Bashan, because the thick forest has been felled. 3 Listen to the wail of the shepherds, because their glory is spoiled. Listen to the roaring of young […]

1 A prophecy, the word ofAdonaiconcerning Isra’el — here is the message fromAdonai, who stretched out the heavens, laid the foundation of the earth and formed the spirit inside human beings: 2 “I will make Yerushalayim a cup that will stagger the surrounding peoples. Even Y’hudah will be caught up in the siege against Yerushalayim. […]

1 When that day comes, a spring will be opened up for the house of David and the people living in Yerushalayim to cleanse them from sin and impurity. 2 “When that day comes,” saysAdonai-Tzva’ot, “I will cut off the very names of the idols from the land, so that no one even remembers them […]

1 Look, a day is coming forAdonai when your plunder, [Yerushalayim], will be divided right there within you. 2 “For I will gather all the nations against Yerushalayim for war. The city will be taken, the houses will be rifled, the women will be raped, and half the city will go into exile; but the […]