Be ye not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts: Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings, but they did not hear, nor hearken to me, says LORD.

But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they turned and said, Like as LORD of hosts thought to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings,

And I am very greatly displeased with the nations that are at ease. For I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

Then I said, What are these coming to do? And he spoke, saying, These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head. But these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says LORD of hosts.

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

But I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned. For they laid the pleasant land desolate.

But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days, says LORD of hosts.

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, says LORD. But, lo, I will deliver the men each one into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. And they shall smite the land, and I will not deliver them out of the

For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, nor will he seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound, but he will eat the flesh of the fat,

But he shall say, I am no prophet. I am a tiller of the ground, for I have been made a bondman from my youth.

And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die, but the third shall be left in it.

But it shall be one day which is known to LORD, not day, and not night. But it shall come to pass, that at evening time there shall be light.

And men shall dwell therein, and there shall be no more curse, but Jerusalem shall dwell safely.