In this vision I saw myself in Susa the citadel, which is located in the province of Elam. In the vision I saw myself at the Ulai Canal.

Egypt will be desolate and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, because of the violence they did to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

For just as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink, and they will gulp down; they will be as though they had never been.

In the future the Lord’s Temple Mount will be the most important mountain of all; it will be more prominent than other hills. People will stream to it.

But I (the Lord says) will be a wall of fire surrounding Jerusalem and the source of glory in her midst.’”

In King Darius’ fourth year, on the fourth day of Kislev, the ninth month, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah.

And I will bring them to settle within Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and righteousness.’

Moreover, on that day living waters will flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea; it will happen both in summer and in winter.

The Lord will then be king over all the earth. In that day the Lord will be seen as one with a single name.

On that day there will be great confusion from the Lord among them; they will seize each other and attack one another violently.

This is the kind of plague that will devastate horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the other animals in those camps.

But if any of the nations anywhere on earth refuse to go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, they will get no rain.

On that day the bells of the horses will bear the inscription “Holy to the Lord.” The cooking pots in the Lord’s temple will be as holy as the bowls in front of the altar.

The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.

And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

So he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers.”

Their dwelling place was from Mesha all the way to Sephar in the eastern hills.

The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.

Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.