\p Zechariah 14.0: \c 14
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\p Zechariah 14.1: \v 1 Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided within you.
\p Zechariah 14.2: \v 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
\p Zechariah 14.3: \v 3 Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
\p Zechariah 14.4: \v 4 His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
\p Zechariah 14.5: \v 5 You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.\f + \fr 14:5 \ft Septuagint reads “him” instead of “you”.\f*
\p Zechariah 14.6: \v 6 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.
\p Zechariah 14.7: \v 7 It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.
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\p Zechariah 14.8: \v 8 It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem: half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea. It will be so in summer and in winter.
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\p Zechariah 14.9: \v 9 Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.
\p Zechariah 14.10: \v 10 All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.
\p Zechariah 14.11: \v 11 Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely.
\p Zechariah 14.12: \v 12 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.
\p Zechariah 14.13: \v 13 It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh will be among them; and they will each hold onto the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor.
\p Zechariah 14.14: \v 14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.
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\p Zechariah 14.15: \v 15 A plague like this will fall on the horse, on the mule, on the camel, on the donkey, and on all the animals that will be in those camps.
\p Zechariah 14.16: \v 16 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of booths.
\p Zechariah 14.17: \v 17 It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on them there will be no rain.
\p Zechariah 14.18: \v 18 If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up, and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.
\p Zechariah 14.19: \v 19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.
\p Zechariah 14.20: \v 20 In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO YAHWEH”; and the pots in Yahweh’s house will be like the bowls before the altar.
\p Zechariah 14.21: \v 21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.0: \c 14
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.1: \v 1 And it came to pass upon the third day, I sat under an oak, and, behold, there came a voice out of a bush near me, and said, Esdras, Esdras.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.2: \v 2 And I said, Here am I, Lord. And I stood up upon my feet.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.3: \v 3 Then said he to me, In the bush I did manifestly reveal myself, and talked with Moses, when my people were in bondage in Egypt:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.4: \v 4 and I sent him, and \f + \fr 14:4 \ft Another reading is. \fqa I. \f* he led my people out of Egypt; and I brought him up to the mount of Sinai, where I held him by me for many days;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.5: \v 5 and told him many wondrous things, and showed him the secrets of the times, and the end of the seasons; and commanded him, saying,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.6: \v 6 These words shall you publish openly, and these shall you hide.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.7: \v 7 And now I say to you,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.8: \v 8 Lay up in your heart the signs that I have showed, and the dreams that you have seen, and the interpretations which you have heard:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.9: \v 9 for you shall be taken away from men, and from henceforth you shall remain with my Son, and with such as be like you, until the times be ended.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.10: \v 10 For the world has lost its youth, and the times begin to wax old.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.11: \v 11 \f + \fr 14:11 \ft Verses 11, 12 are omitted in the Syriac. The Aethiopic has \fqa For the world is divided into ten parts, and is come to the tenth: and half of the tenth remains. Now etc. \f* For the world is divided into twelve parts, and ten parts of it are gone already, \f + \fr 14:11 \ft Lat. \fqa and. \f* even the half of the tenth part:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.12: \v 12 and there remain of it two parts after the middle of the tenth part.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.13: \v 13 Now therefore set your house in order, and reprove your people, comfort the lowly among them, \f + \fr 14:13 \ft The Latin alone omits \fqa and...wise. \f* and instruct such of them as be wise, and now renounce the life that is corruptible,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.14: \v 14 and let go from the mortal thoughts, cast away from you the burdens of man, put off now your weak nature,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.15: \v 15 and lay aside the thoughts that are most grievous to you, and haste you to remove from these times.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.16: \v 16 For yet worse evils than those which you have seen happen shall be done hereafter.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.17: \v 17 For look, how much the world shall be weaker through age, so much the more shall evils increase upon those who dwell therein.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.18: \v 18 For the truth will withdraw itself further off, and falsehood will be hard at hand: for now hastens \f + \fr 14:18 \ft So the Oriental versions. \f* the eagle to come, which you saw in vision.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.19: \v 19 Then answered I and said, \f + \fr 14:19 \ft The Latin omits \fqa I will speak. \f* I will speak before you, O Lord.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.20: \v 20 Behold, I will go, as you have commanded me, and reprove the people that now be: but those who shall be born afterward, who shall admonish them? for the world is set in darkness, and those who dwell therein are without light.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.21: \v 21 For your law is burned, therefore no man knows the things that are done of you, or the works that shall be done.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.22: \v 22 But if I have found favor before you, send the Holy Spirit to me, and I shall write all that has been done in the world since the beginning, even the things that were written in your law, that men may be able to find the path, and that they which would live in the latter days may live.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.23: \v 23 And he answered me and said, Go your way, gather the people together, and say to them, that they seek you not for forty days.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.24: \v 24 But look you prepare you many tablets, and take with you Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ethanus, and Asiel, these five, which are ready to write swiftly;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.25: \v 25 and come here, and I shall light a lamp of understanding in your heart, which shall not be put out, till the things be ended which you shall write.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.26: \v 26 And when you have done, some things shall you publish openly, and some things shall you deliver in secret to the wise: tomorrow this hour shall you begin to write.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.27: \v 27 Then went I forth, as he commanded me, and gathered all the people together, and said,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.28: \v 28 Hear these words, O Israel.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.29: \v 29 Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, and they were delivered from thence,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.30: \v 30 and received the law of life, which they kept not, which you° also have transgressed after them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.31: \v 31 Then was \f + \fr 14:31 \ft Another reading is, \fqa a land in the land of Sion. \f* the land, even the land of Sion, given you for a possession: but you° yourselves, and your fathers, have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Most High commanded you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.32: \v 32 And forasmuch as he is a righteous judge, he took from you for a while the thing that he had given you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.33: \v 33 And now you° are here, and your kindred are among you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.34: \v 34 Therefore if so be that you° will rule over your own understanding, and instruct your hearts, you° shall be kept alive, and after death you° shall obtain mercy.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.35: \v 35 For after death shall the judgement come, when we shall live again: and then shall the names of the righteous be manifest, and the works of the ungodly shall be declared.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.36: \v 36 Let no man therefore come to me now, nor seek after me these forty days.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.37: \v 37 So I took the five men, as he commanded me, and we went forth into the field, and remained there.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.38: \v 38 And it came to pass on the next day that, behold, a voice called me, saying, Esdras, open your mouth, and drink what I give you to drink.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.39: \v 39 Then opened I my mouth, and, behold, there was reached to me a full cup, which was full as it were with water, but the color of it was like fire.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.40: \v 40 And I took it, and drank: and when I had drunk of it, my heart uttered understanding, and wisdom grew in my breast, for my spirit retained its memory:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.41: \v 41 and my mouth was opened, and shut no more.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.42: \v 42 The Most High gave understanding to the five men, and they wrote by course the things that were told them, in \f + \fr 14:42 \ft So the Oriental versions. \f* characters which they knew not, and they sat forty days: now they wrote in the day-time, and at night they ate bread.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.43: \v 43 As for me, I spoke in the day, and by night I held not my tongue.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.44: \v 44 So in forty days were written \f + \fr 14:44 \ft So the Oriental versions. The copies of the Latin vary and are corrupt. \f* fourscore and fourteen books.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.45: \v 45 And it came to pass, when the forty days were fulfilled, that the Most High spoke to me, saying, The first that you have written publish openly, and let the worthy and unworthy read it:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.46: \v 46 but keep the seventy last, that you may deliver them to such as be wise among your people:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.47: \v 47 for in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the stream of knowledge.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.48: \v 48 And I did so.