Book of Zechariah

The Book of Zechariah (Biblical Hebrew: זְכַרְיָה‎, romanized: Zəḵaryāh); also Zachariah or, in the Septuagint and Vulgate, Zacharias (Koine Greek: Ζαχαρίας, romanized: Zakharías; Late Latin: Zacharias), is a Jewish text attributed to Zechariah, a Hebrew prophet of the late 6th century BC. In the Hebrew Bible, the text is included as part of the Twelve Minor Prophets, itself a part of the second division of that work. In the Christian Old Testament, the Book of Zechariah is considered to be a separate book and consists of fourteen chapters.

Quotes

KJV

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
- 1:5

I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven.
- 2:6

Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
- 4:6

For who hath despised the day of small things?
- 4:10

And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to intreat the favour of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts: I will go also.
- 8:21
- Compare:
- Though private prayer be a brave designe,
  Yet publick hath more promises, more love;
  And love's a weight to hearts, to eies a signe.
  We all are but cold suitors; let us move
  Where it is warmest; leave thy six and seven;
  Pray with the most, for where most pray is heaven.
  - Herbert, The Temple

Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
- 9:3–4
- Compare:
- Tyre mocked when Salem fell: where now is Tyre?
  Heaven was against her. Nations thick as waves
  Burst o'er her walls, to ocean doomed and fire:
  And now the tideless water idly laves
  Her towers, and lone sands heap her crowned merchants' graves.
  - Keble

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
- 9:9

Prisoners of hope.
- 9:12

For the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled.
- 11:2
- Compare:
- Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge,
  Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle,
  Under whose shade the ramping lion slept,
  Whose top-branch over-peer'd Jove's spreading tree.
  And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind.
  * * *
  Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?
  And, live we how we can, yet die we must.
  - Shakespeare, Third Part of Henry VI, Act v, Scene 2

So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
- 11:12

And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
- 13:6 (KJV)

NIV

The Lord was very angry with your ancestors.
- 1:2

Therefore tell the people: This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'Return to me,' declares the Lord Almighty, 'and I will return to you,' says the Lord Almighty.
- 1:3

So he said to me, "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: 'Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the Lord Almighty."
- 4:6

Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
- 9:9

I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the warhorses from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be broken. He will proclaim peace to the nations. His rule will extend from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.
- 9:10

They will pass through the sea of trouble; the surging sea will be subdued and all the depths of the Nile will dry up. Assyria's pride will be brought down and Egypt's scepter will pass away.
- 10:11

And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
- 12:10

A day of the Lord is coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very walls.
- 14:1

On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south.
- 14:4