The oracle of the word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach
        and Damascus is its resting place.
    For the LORD has an eye on mankind
        and on all the tribes of Israel,
    and on Hamath also, which borders on it,
        Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.
    Tyre has built herself a rampart
        and heaped up silver like dust,
        and fine gold like the mud of the streets.
    But behold, the Lord will strip her of her possessions
        and strike down her power on the sea,
        and she shall be devoured by fire.
    
    
    Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid;
        Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish;
        Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded.
    The king shall perish from Gaza;
        Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;
    a mixed people shall dwell in Ashdod,
        and I will cut off the pride of Philistia.
    I will take away its blood from its mouth,
        and its abominations from between its teeth;
    it too shall be a remnant for our God;
        it shall be like a clan in Judah,
        and Ekron shall be like the Jebusites.
    Then I will encamp at my house as a guard,
        so that none shall march to and fro;
    no oppressor shall again march over them,
        for now I see with my own eyes.
    
    
        Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
        Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
    Behold, your king is coming to you;
        righteous and having salvation is he,
    humble and mounted on a donkey,
        on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
    I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
        and the war horse from Jerusalem;
    and the battle bow shall be cut off,
        and he shall speak peace to the nations;
    his rule shall be from sea to sea,
        and from the River to the ends of the earth.
    As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you,
        I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
    Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope;
        today I declare that I will restore to you double.
    For I have bent Judah as my bow;
        I have made Ephraim its arrow.
    I will stir up your sons, O Zion,
        against your sons, O Greece,
        and wield you like a warrior’s sword.
    
    
        Then the LORD will appear over them,
        and his arrow will go forth like lightning;
    the Lord GOD will sound the trumpet
        and will march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.
    The LORD of hosts will protect them,
        and they shall devour, and tread down the sling stones,
    and they shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine,
        and be full like a bowl,
        drenched like the corners of the altar.
    
    
    On that day the LORD their God will save them,
        as the flock of his people;
    for like the jewels of a crown
        they shall shine on his land.
    For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty!
        Grain shall make the young men flourish,
        and new wine the young women.
    
    
        Ask rain from the LORD
        in the season of the spring rain,
    from the LORD who makes the storm clouds,
        and he will give them showers of rain,
        to everyone the vegetation in the field.
    For the household gods utter nonsense,
        and the diviners see lies;
    they tell false dreams
        and give empty consolation.
    Therefore the people wander like sheep;
        they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.
    
    
    “My anger is hot against the shepherds,
        and I will punish the leaders;
    for the LORD of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah,
        and will make them like his majestic steed in battle.
    From him shall come the cornerstone,
        from him the tent peg,
    from him the battle bow,
        from him every ruler—all of them together.
    They shall be like mighty men in battle,
        trampling the foe in the mud of the streets;
    they shall fight because the LORD is with them,
        and they shall put to shame the riders on horses.
    
    
    “I will strengthen the house of Judah,
        and I will save the house of Joseph.
    I will bring them back because I have compassion on them,
        and they shall be as though I had not rejected them,
        for I am the LORD their God and I will answer them.
    Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior,
        and their hearts shall be glad as with wine.
    Their children shall see it and be glad;
        their hearts shall rejoice in the LORD.
    
    
    “I will whistle for them and gather them in,
        for I have redeemed them,
        and they shall be as many as they were before.
    Though I scattered them among the nations,
        yet in far countries they shall remember me,
        and with their children they shall live and return.
    I will bring them home from the land of Egypt,
        and gather them from Assyria,
    and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon,
        till there is no room for them.
    He shall pass through the sea of troubles
        and strike down the waves of the sea,
        and all the depths of the Nile shall be dried up.
    The pride of Assyria shall be laid low,
        and the scepter of Egypt shall depart.
    I will make them strong in the LORD,
        and they shall walk in his name,”
                                            declares the LORD.
    
    
        Open your doors, O Lebanon,
        that the fire may devour your cedars!
    Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
        for the glorious trees are ruined!
    Wail, oaks of Bashan,
        for the thick forest has been felled!
    The sound of the wail of the shepherds,
        for their glory is ruined!
    The sound of the roar of the lions,
        for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!
    
    
      Thus said the LORD my God: “Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them. For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the LORD. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”

  So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named Favor, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep. In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me. So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another.” And I took my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples. So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD. Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver. Then the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD, to the potter. Then I broke my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

  Then the LORD said to me, “Take once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.

    “Woe to my worthless shepherd,
        who deserts the flock!
    May the sword strike his arm
        and his right eye!
    Let his arm be wholly withered,
        his right eye utterly blinded!”
    
    
      The oracle of the word of the LORD concerning Israel: Thus declares the LORD, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him: “Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah. On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it. On that day, declares the LORD, I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through the LORD of hosts, their God.’

  “On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.

  “And the LORD will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah. On that day the LORD will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the LORD, going before them. And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

  “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. The land shall mourn, each family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves. (ESV)

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”

  These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire. And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth. But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. And at that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

  The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.

  Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.” And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying,

    “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
        who is and who was,
    for you have taken your great power
        and begun to reign.
    The nations raged,
        but your wrath came,
        and the time for the dead to be judged,
    and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints,
        and those who fear your name,
        both small and great,
    and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
    
    
      Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail. (ESV)