6:1And again lifting up my eyes I saw four war-carriages coming out from between the two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass. 6:2In the first war-carriage were red horses; and in the second, black horses; 6:3And in the third, white horses; and in the fourth, horses of mixed colour. 6:4And I made answer and said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these, my lord? 6:5And the angel, answering, said to me, These go out to the four winds of heaven from their place before the Lord of all the earth. 6:6The carriage in which are the black horses goes in the direction of the north country; the white go to the west; and those of mixed colour go in the direction of the south country. 6:7And the red ones go to the east; and they made request that they might go up and down through the earth: and he said, Go up and down through the earth. So they went up and down through the earth. 6:8Then crying out to me, he said, See, those who are going to the north country have given rest to the spirit of the Lord in the north country. 6:9And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 6:10Take the offerings of those who went away as prisoners, from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, and from the family of Josiah, the son of Zephaniah, who have come from Babylon; 6:11And take silver and gold and make a crown and put it on the head of Zerubbabel; 6:12And say to him, These are the words of the Lord of armies: See, the man whose name is the Branch, under whom there will be fertile growth. 6:13And he will be the builder of the Temple of the Lord; and the glory will be his, and he will take his place as ruler on the seat of power; and Joshua will be a priest at his right hand, and between them there will be a design of peace. 6:14And the crown will be for grace to Heldai and Tobijah and Jedaiah and the son of Zephaniah, to keep their memory living in the house of the Lord. 6:15And those who are far away will come and be builders in the Temple of the Lord, and it will be clear to you that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.
7:1And it came about in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month Chislev. 7:2Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to make a request for grace from the Lord, 7:3And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years? 7:4Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying 7:5Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me? 7:6And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves? 7:7Are not these the words which the Lord said to you by the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was full of people and wealth, and the towns round about her and the South and the Lowland were peopled? 7:8And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying, 7:9This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother: 7:10Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother. 7:11But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing; 7:12And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies. 7:13And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies: 7:14But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.
8:1And the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying, 8:2These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am angry about the fate of Zion, I am angry about her with great wrath. 8:3This is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Zion, and will make my living-place in Jerusalem: and Jerusalem will be named The town of good faith; and the mountain of the Lord of armies The holy mountain. 8:4This is what the Lord of armies has said: There will again be old men and old women seated in the open spaces of Jerusalem, every man with his stick in his hand because he is so old. 8:5And the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its open spaces. 8:6This is what the Lord of armies has said: If this is a wonder to the rest of this people, is it a wonder to me? says the Lord of armies. 8:7This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will be the saviour of my people from the east country, and from the west country; 8:8And I will make them come and be living in Jerusalem and they will be to me a people and I will be to them a God, in good faith and in righteousness. 8:9This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your hands be strong, you who are now hearing these words from the mouths of the prophets, that is to say, in the days when the base of the house of the Lord of armies has been put in place for the building of the house, that is the Temple. 8:10For before those days there was no payment for a man's work, or for the use of a beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or him who came in, because of the attacker: for I had every man turned against his neighbour. 8:11But now I will not be to the rest of this people as I was in the past, says the Lord of armies. 8:12For I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew; and I will give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage. 8:13And it will come about that, as you were a curse among the nations, O children of Judah and children of Israel, so I will give you salvation and you will be a blessing: have no fear and let your hands be strong. 8:14For this is what the Lord of armies has said: As it was my purpose to do evil to you when your fathers made me angry, says the Lord of armies, and my purpose was not changed: 8:15So in these days it is again my purpose to do good to Jerusalem and to the children of Judah: have no fear. 8:16These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns. 8:17Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord. 8:18And the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying, 8:19This is what the Lord of armies has said: The times of going without food in the fourth month and in the fifth and the seventh and the tenth months, will be for the people of Judah times of joy and happy meetings; so be lovers of good faith and of peace. 8:20This is what the Lord of armies has said: It will again come about that when peoples and those living in great towns come, 8:21And the people of one town go to another and say, Let us certainly go with a request for grace from the Lord, and to give worship to the Lord of armies, then I will go with you. 8:22And great peoples and strong nations will come to give worship to the Lord of armies in Jerusalem and to make requests for grace from the Lord. 8:23This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.
9:1A word of the Lord: The Lord has come to the land of Hadrach, and Damascus is his resting-place: for the towns of Aram are the Lord's, 9:2As well as Hamath, which is by its limit, and Tyre and Zidon, because they are very wise. 9:3And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the streets. 9:4See, the Lord will take away her heritage, overturning her power in the sea; and she will be burned up with fire. 9:5Ashkelon will see it with fear, and Gaza, bent with pain; and Ekron, for her hope will be shamed: and the king will be cut off from Gaza, and Ashkelon will be unpeopled. 9:6And a mixed people will be living in Ashdod, and I will have the pride of the Philistines cut off. 9:7And I will take away his blood from his mouth, and his disgusting things from between his teeth; and some of his people will be kept for our God: and he will be as a family in Judah, and Ekron as one living in Jerusalem. 9:8And I will put my forces in position round my house, so that there may be no coming and going: and no cruel master will again go through them: for now I have seen his trouble. 9:9Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass. 9:10And he will have the war-carriage cut off from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be cut off: and he will say words of peace to the nations: and his rule will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. 9:11And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water. 9:12And they will come back to you, O daughter of Zion, as prisoners of hope: today I say to you that I will give you back twice as much; 9:13For I have made Judah a bow bent for my use, I have made Ephraim the arrows of the bow; I will make your sons, O Zion, take up arms against your sons, O Greece, and will make you like the sword of a man of war. 9:14And the Lord will be seen over them, and his arrow will go out like the thunder-flame: and the Lord God, sounding the war-horn, will go in the storm-winds of the South. 9:15The Lord of armies will be a cover for them; and they will overcome, crushing under foot the armed men; they will take their blood for drink like wine: they will be full like the sides of the altar. 9:16And the Lord their God will be their saviour in that day, giving them food like the flock of his people: for they will be like the jewels of a crown shining over his land. 9:17For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.
10:1Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field. 10:2For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper. 10:3My wrath is burning against the keepers of the flock, and I will send punishment on the he-goats: for the Lord of armies takes care of his flock, the people of Judah, and will make them like the horse of his pride in the fight. 10:4From him will come the keystone, from him the nail, from him the bow of war, from him will come every ruler; 10:5Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed. 10:6And I will make the children of Judah strong, and I will be the saviour of the children of Joseph, and I will make them come back again, for I have had mercy on them: they will be as if I had not given them up: for I am the Lord their God and I will give them an answer. 10:7And Ephraim will be like a man of war, and their hearts will be glad as with wine; and their children will see it with joy; their hearts will be glad in the Lord. 10:8With the sound of the pipe I will get them together; for I have given the price to make them free: and they will be increased as they were increased. 10:9Though I had them planted among the peoples, they will keep me in mind in far countries: and they will take care of their children and will come back. 10:10And I will make them come back out of the land of Egypt, and will get them together out of Assyria; and I will take them into the land of Gilead, and it will not be wide enough for them. 10:11And they will go through the sea of Egypt, and all the deep waters of the Nile will become dry: and the pride of Assyria will be made low, and the power of Egypt will be taken away. 10:12And their strength will be in the Lord; and their pride will be in his name, says the Lord.
11:1Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your cedars. 11:2Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down. 11:3The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste. 11:4This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death; 11:5Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them. 11:6For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands. 11:7So I took care of the flock of death, for those who made profit out of the flock; and I took for myself two rods, naming one Beautiful, and the other Bands; and I took care of the flock. 11:8And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me. 11:9And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food. 11:10And I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord's agreement, which he had made with all the peoples, might be broken. 11:11And it was broken on that day: and the sheep-traders, who were watching me, were certain that it was the word of the Lord. 11:12And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my payment; and if not, do not give it. So they gave me my payment by weight, thirty shekels of silver. 11:13And the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver and put them into the store-house in the house of the Lord. 11:14Then I took my other rod, the one named Bands, cutting it in two, so that the relation of brothers between Judah and Israel might be broken. 11:15And the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a foolish keeper of sheep. 11:16For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken. 11:17A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.
12:1The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said: 12:2See, I will make Jerusalem a cup of shaking fear to all the peoples round about, when Jerusalem is shut in. 12:3And it will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a stone of great weight for all the peoples; all those who take it up will be badly wounded; and all the nations of the earth will come together against it. 12:4In that day, says the Lord, I will put fear into every horse and make every horseman go off his head: and my eyes will be open on the people of Judah, and I will make every horse of the peoples blind. 12:5And the families of Judah will say in their hearts, The people of Jerusalem have their strength in the Lord of armies, their God. 12:6In that day I will make the families of Judah like a pot with fire in it among trees, and like a flaming stick among cut grain; they will send destruction on all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem will be living again in the place which is hers, that is, in Jerusalem. 12:7And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the family of David and the glory of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah. 12:8In that day the Lord will be a cover over the people of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them in that day will be as strong as David, and the family of David will be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them. 12:9And it will come about on that day that I will take in hand the destruction of all the nations who come against Jerusalem. 12:10And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son. 12:11In that day there will be a great weeping in Jerusalem, like the weeping of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon. 12:12And the land will give itself to weeping, every family separately; the family of David by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Nathan by themselves, and their wives by themselves; 12:13The family of Levi by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by themselves, and their wives by themselves; 12:14And all the other families by themselves, and their wives by themselves.
13:1In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean. 13:2And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the land. 13:3And if anyone goes on acting as a prophet, then his father and his mother who gave him life will say to him, You may not go on living, for you are saying what is false in the name of the Lord; and his father and his mother will put a sword through him when he does so. 13:4And it will come about in that day that the prophets will be shamed, every man on account of his vision, when he is talking as a prophet; and they will not put on a robe of hair for purposes of deceit: 13:5But he will say, I am no prophet, but a worker on the land; for I have been an owner of land from the time when I was young. 13:6And if anyone says to him, What are these wounds between your hands? then he will say, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. 13:7Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones. 13:8And it will come about that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts of it will be cut off and come to an end; but the third will be still living there. 13:9And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.
14:1See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken by force before your eyes. 14:2For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town. 14:3Then the Lord will go out and make war against those nations, as he did in the day of the fight. 14:4And in that day his feet will be on the Mount of Olives, which is opposite Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives will be parted in the middle to the east and to the west, forming a very great valley; and half the mountain will be moved to the north and half of it to the south. 14:5And the valley will be stopped ... and you will go in flight as you went in flight from the earth-shock in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah: and the Lord my God will come, and all his holy ones with him. 14:6And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice; 14:7And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light. 14:8And on that day living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them flowing to the sea on the east and half to the sea on the west: in summer and in winter it will be so. 14:9And the Lord will be King over all the earth: in that day there will be one Lord and his name one. 14:10And all the land will become like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up and be living in her place; from the doorway of Benjamin to the place of the first doorway, to the doorway of the angle, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's wine-crushing places, men will be living in her. 14:11And there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will be living without fear of danger. 14:12And this will be the disease which the Lord will send on all the peoples which have been warring against Jerusalem: their flesh will be wasted away while they are on their feet, their eyes will be wasted in their heads and their tongues in their mouths. 14:13And it will be on that day that a great fear will be sent among them from the Lord; and everyone will take his neighbour's hand, and every man's hand will be lifted against his neighbour's. 14:14And even Judah will be fighting against Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about will be massed together, a great store of gold and silver and clothing. 14:15And the horses and the transport beasts, the camels and the asses and all the beasts in those tents will be attacked by the same disease. 14:16And it will come about that everyone who is still living, of all those nations who came against Jerusalem, will go up from year to year to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, and to keep the feast of tents. 14:17And it will be that if any one of all the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, on them there will be no rain. 14:18And if the family of Egypt does not go up or come there, they will be attacked by the disease which the Lord will send on the nations: 14:19This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to keep the feast of tents. 14:20On that day all the bells of the horses will be holy to the Lord, and the pots in the Lord's house will be like the basins before the altar. 14:21And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of armies: and all those who make offerings will come and take them for boiling their offerings: in that day there will be no more traders in the house of the Lord of armies.
Malachi
1:1The word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. 1:2You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me, 1:3And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land. 1:4Though Edom says, We are crushed down but we will come back, building up the waste places; this is what the Lord of armies has said: They may put up buildings, but I will have them pulled down; and they will be named The land of evil-doing, and The people against whom the Lord keeps his wrath for ever. 1:5And your eyes will see it; and you will say, The Lord is great even outside the limits of Israel. 1:6A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name? 1:7You put unclean bread on my altar. And you say, How have we made it unclean? By your saying, The table of the Lord is of no value. 1:8And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies. 1:9And now, make request for the grace of God so that he may have mercy on us: this has been your doing: will he give his approval to any of you? says the Lord of armies. 1:10If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands. 1:11For, from the coming up of the sun till its going down, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place the smell of burning flesh is offered to my name, and a clean offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of armies. 1:12But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value. 1:13And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord. 1:14A curse on the false man who has a male in his flock, and takes his oath, and gives to the Lord a damaged thing: for I am a great King, says the Lord of armies, and my name is to be feared among the Gentiles.
2:1And now, O you priests, this order is for you. 2:2If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart. 2:3See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it. 2:4And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies. 2:5My agreement with him was on my side life and peace, and I gave them to him; on his side fear, and he had fear of me and gave honour to my name. 2:6True teaching was in his mouth, and no evil was seen on his lips: he was walking with me in peace and righteousness, turning numbers of people away from evil-doing. 2:7For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies. 2:8But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies. 2:9And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law. 2:10Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers? 2:11Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god. 2:12The Lord will have the man who does this cut off root and branch out of the tents of Jacob, and him who makes an offering to the Lord of armies. 2:13And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand. 2:14But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word. 2:15... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years. 2:16For I am against the putting away of a wife, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and against him who is clothed with violent acts, says the Lord of armies: so give thought to your spirit and do not be false in your acts. 2:17You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?
3:1See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies. 3:2But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap. 3:3He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness. 3:4Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord, as in days gone by, and as in past years. 3:5And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies. 3:6For I am the Lord, I am unchanged; and so you, O sons of Jacob, have not been cut off. 3:7From the days of your fathers you have been turned away from my rules and have not kept them. Come back to me, and I will come back to you, says the Lord of armies. But you say, How are we to come back? 3:8Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings. 3:9You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation. 3:10Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it. 3:11And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies 3:12And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies. 3:13Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you? 3:14You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies? 3:15And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe. 3:16Then those in whom was the fear of the Lord had talk together: and the Lord gave ear, and it was recorded in a book to be kept in mind before him, for those who had the fear of the Lord and gave thought to his name. 3:17And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant. 3:18Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.
4:1For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch. 4:2But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food. 4:3And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies. 4:4Keep in mind the law of Moses, my servant, which I gave him in Horeb for all Israel, even the rules and the decisions. 4:5See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared. 4:6And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse.
Matthew
1:1The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 1:2The son of Abraham was Isaac; and the son of Isaac was Jacob; and the sons of Jacob were Judah and his brothers; 1:3And the sons of Judah were Perez and Zerah by Tamar; and the son of Perez was Hezron; and the son of Hezron was Ram; 1:4And the son of Ram was Amminadab; and the son of Amminadab was Nahshon; and the son of Nahshon was Salmon; 1:5And the son of Salmon by Rahab was Boaz; and the son of Boaz by Ruth was Obed; and the son of Obed was Jesse; 1:6And the son of Jesse was David the king; and the son of David was Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah; 1:7And the son of Solomon was Rehoboam; and the son of Rehoboam was Abijah; and the son of Abijah was Asa; 1:8And the son of Asa was Jehoshaphat; and the son of Jehoshaphat was Joram; and the son of Joram was Uzziah; 1:9And the son of Uzziah was Jotham; and the son of Jotham was Ahaz; and the son of Ahaz was Hezekiah; 1:10And the son of Hezekiah was Manasseh; and the son of Manasseh was Amon; and the son of Amon was Josiah; 1:11And the sons of Josiah were Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the taking away to Babylon. 1:12And after the taking away to Babylon, Jechoniah had a son Shealtiel; and Shealtiel had Zerubbabel; 1:13And Zerubbabel had Abiud; and Abiud had Eliakim; and Eliakim had Azor; 1:14And Azor had Zadok; and Zadok had Achim; and Achim had Eliud; 1:15And Eliud had Eleazar; and Eleazar had Matthan; and Matthan had Jacob; 1:16And the son of Jacob was Joseph the husband of Mary, who gave birth to Jesus, whose name is Christ. 1:17So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the taking away to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the taking away to Babylon to the coming of Christ, fourteen generations. 1:18Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this way: when his mother Mary was going to be married to Joseph, before they came together the discovery was made that she was with child by the Holy Spirit. 1:19And Joseph, her husband, being an upright man, and not desiring to make her a public example, had a mind to put her away privately. 1:20But when he was giving thought to these things, an angel of the Lord came to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, have no fear of taking Mary as your wife; because that which is in her body is of the Holy Spirit. 1:21And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins. 1:22Now all this took place so that the word of the Lord by the prophet might come true, 1:23See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us. 1:24And Joseph did as the angel of the Lord had said to him, and took her as his wife; 1:25And he had no connection with her till she had given birth to a son; and he gave him the name Jesus.
2:1Now when the birth of Jesus took place in Beth-lehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 2:2Saying, Where is the King of the Jews whose birth has now taken place? We have seen his star in the east and have come to give him worship. 2:3And when it came to the ears of Herod the king, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. 2:4And he got together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, questioning them as to where the birth-place of the Christ would be. 2:5And they said to him, In Beth-lehem of Judaea; for so it is said in the writings of the prophet, 2:6You Beth-lehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the chiefs of Judah: out of you will come a ruler, who will be the keeper of my people Israel. 2:7Then Herod sent for the wise men privately, and put questions to them about what time the star had been seen. 2:8And he sent them to Beth-lehem and said, Go and make certain where the young child is; and when you have seen him, let me have news of it, so that I may come and give him worship. 2:9And after hearing the king, they went on their way; and the star which they saw in the east went before them, till it came to rest over the place where the young child was. 2:10And when they saw the star they were full of joy. 2:11And they came into the house, and saw the young child with Mary, his mother; and falling down on their faces they gave him worship; and from their store they gave him offerings of gold, perfume, and spices. 2:12And it was made clear to them by God in a dream that they were not to go back to Herod; so they went into their country by another way. 2:13And when they had gone, an angel of the Lord came to Joseph in a dream, saying, Get up and take the young child and his mother, and go into Egypt, and do not go from there till I give you word; for Herod will be searching for the young child to put him to death. 2:14So he took the young child and his mother by night, and went into Egypt; 2:15And was there till the death of Herod; so that the word of the Lord through the prophet might come true, Out of Egypt have I sent for my son. 2:16Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was very angry; and he sent out, and put to death all the male children in Beth-lehem and in all the parts round about it, from two years old and under, acting on the knowledge which he had got with care from the wise men. 2:17Then the word of Jeremiah the prophet came true, 2:18In Ramah there was a sound of weeping and great sorrow, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted for their loss. 2:19But when Herod was dead, an angel of the Lord came in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 2:20Saying, Get up and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: because they who were attempting to take the young child's life are dead. 2:21And he got up, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. 2:22But when it came to his ears that Archelaus was ruling over Judaea in the place of his father Herod, he was in fear of going there; and God having given him news of the danger in a dream, he went out of the way into the country parts of Galilee. 2:23And he came and was living in a town named Nazareth: so that the word of the prophets might come true, He will be named a Nazarene.
3:1And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea, 3:2Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near. 3:3For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight. 3:4Now John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey. 3:5Then Jerusalem and all Judaea went out to him, and all the people from near Jordan; 3:6And they were given baptism by him in the river Jordan, saying openly that they had done wrong. 3:7But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come? 3:8Let your change of heart be seen in your works: 3:9And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham. 3:10And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire. 3:11Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire: 3:12In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out. 3:13Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be given baptism by him. 3:14But John would have kept him back, saying, It is I who have need of baptism from you, and do you come to me? 3:15But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism. 3:16And Jesus, having been given baptism, straight away went up from the water; and, the heavens opening, he saw the Spirit of God coming down on him as a dove; 3:17And a voice came out of heaven, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.
4:1Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One. 4:2And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it. 4:3And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, give the word for these stones to become bread. 4:4But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God. 4:5Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him, 4:6If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down; for it is in the Writings, He will give his angels care over you; and, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone. 4:7Jesus said to him, Again it is in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test. 4:8Again, the Evil One took him up to a very high mountain, and let him see all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them; 4:9And he said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will go down on your face and give me worship. 4:10Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only. 4:11Then the Evil One went away from him, and angels came and took care of him. 4:12Now when it came to his ears that John had been put in prison, he went away to Galilee; 4:13And going away from Nazareth, he came and made his living-place in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the country of Zebulun and Naphtali: 4:14So that the word of the prophet Isaiah might come true, 4:15The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, 4:16The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up. 4:17From that time Jesus went about preaching and saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin, for the kingdom of heaven is near. 4:18And when he was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, whose other name was Peter, and Andrew, his brother, who were putting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. 4:19And he said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men. 4:20And straight away they let go the nets and went after him. 4:21And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, in the boat with their father, stitching up their nets; and he said, Come. 4:22And they went straight from the boat and their father and came after him. 4:23And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom, and making well those who were ill with any disease among the people. 4:24And news of him went out through all Syria; and they took to him all who were ill with different diseases and pains, those having evil spirits and those who were off their heads, and those who had no power of moving. And he made them well. 4:25And there went after him great numbers from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and from the other side of Jordan.
5:1And seeing great masses of people he went up into the mountain; and when he was seated his disciples came to him. 5:2And with these words he gave them teaching, saying, 5:3Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs. 5:4Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted. 5:5Happy are the gentle: for the earth will be their heritage. 5:6Happy are those whose heart's desire is for righteousness: for they will have their desire. 5:7Happy are those who have mercy: for they will be given mercy. 5:8Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God. 5:9Happy are the peacemakers: for they will be named sons of God. 5:10Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs. 5:11Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me. 5:12Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you. 5:13You are the salt of the earth; but if its taste goes from the salt, how will you make it salt again? it is then good for nothing but to be put out and crushed under foot by men. 5:14You are the light of the world. A town put on a hill may be seen by all. 5:15And a burning light is not put under a vessel, but on its table; so that its rays may be shining on all who are in the house. 5:16Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven. 5:17Let there be no thought that I have come to put an end to the law or the prophets. I have not come for destruction, but to make complete. 5:18Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done. 5:19Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven. 5:20For I say to you, If your righteousness is not greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never go into the kingdom of heaven. 5:21You have knowledge that it was said in old times, You may not put to death; and, Whoever puts to death will be in danger of being judged: 5:22But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire. 5:23If then you are making an offering at the altar and there it comes to your mind that your brother has something against you, 5:24While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering. 5:25Come to an agreement quickly with him who has a cause against you at law, while you are with him on the way, for fear that he may give you up to the judge and the judge may give you to the police and you may be put into prison. 5:26Truly I say to you, You will not come out from there till you have made payment of the very last farthing. 5:27You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife: 5:28But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart. 5:29And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell. 5:30And if your right hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell. 5:31Again, it was said, Whoever puts away his wife has to give her a statement in writing for this purpose: 5:32But I say to you that everyone who puts away his wife for any other cause but the loss of her virtue, makes her false to her husband; and whoever takes her as his wife after she is put away, is no true husband to her. 5:33Again, you have knowledge that it was said in old times, Do not take false oaths, but give effect to your oaths to the Lord: 5:34But I say to you, Take no oaths at all: not by the heaven, because it is the seat of God; 5:35Or by the earth, because it is the resting-place for his foot; or by Jerusalem, because it is the town of the great King. 5:36You may not take an oath by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black. 5:37But let your words be simply, Yes or No: and whatever is more than these is of the Evil One. 5:38You have knowledge that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 5:39But I say to you, Do not make use of force against an evil man; but to him who gives you a blow on the right side of your face let the left be turned. 5:40And if any man goes to law with you and takes away your coat, do not keep back your robe from him. 5:41And whoever makes you go one mile, go with him two. 5:42Give to him who comes with a request, and keep not your property from him who would for a time make use of it. 5:43You have knowledge that it was said, Have love for your neighbour, and hate for him who is against you: 5:44But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you; 5:45So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner. 5:46For if you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? do not the tax-farmers the same? 5:47And if you say, Good day, to your brothers only, what do you do more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same? 5:48Be then complete in righteousness, even as your Father in heaven is complete.