But if any of the nations anywhere on earth refuse to go up to Jerusalem<n id="1" /> to worship the King, the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all, they will get no rain.

As for the stone<n id="1" /> I have set before Joshua &#8211; on the one stone there are seven eyes.<n id="2" /> I am about to engrave an inscription on it,&#8217; says the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all, &#8216;to the effect that I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.<n id="3" />

For who dares make light of small beginnings? These seven eyes<n id="1" /> will joyfully look on the tin tablet<n id="2" /> in Zerubbabel&#8217;s hand. (These are the eyes of the <sc>Lordsc>, which constantly range across the whole earth.)p>

The speaker went on to say, &#8220;This is a curse<n id="1" /> traveling across the whole earth. For example, according to the curse whoever steals<n id="2" /> will be removed from the community; or on the other hand (according to the curse) whoever swears falsely will suffer the same fate.&#8221;

Then I looked again and saw two women<n id="1" /> going forth with the wind in their wings (they had wings like those of a stork) and they lifted up the basket between the earth and the sky.

&#8220;Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows: &#8216;When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh<n id="1" /> months through all these seventy years, did you truly fast for me &#8211; for me, indeed?

&#8216;for there will be a peaceful time of sowing, the vine will produce its fruit and the ground its yield, and the skies<n id="1" /> will rain down dew. Then I will allow the remnant of my people to possess all these things.

<p class="poetry">I will remove<n id="1" /> the chariot from Ephraimp> <p class="poetry">and the warhorse from Jerusalem,p> <p class="poetry">and the battle bow will be removed.p> <p class="poetry">Then he will announce peace to the nations.p> <p class="poetry">His dominion will be from sea to seap> <p class="poetry">and from the Euphrates River<n id="2" /> to the ends of the earth.p>

Indeed, I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not take heed to the sheep headed to slaughter, will not seek the scattered, and will not heal the injured.<n id="1" /> Moreover, he will not nourish the one that is healthy but instead will eat the meat of the fat sheep<n id="2" /> and tear off their hooves.p>

Moreover, on that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy burden<n id="1" /> for all the nations, and all who try to carry it will be seriously injured;<n id="2" /> yet all the peoples of the earth will be assembled against it.

All the land will change and become like the Arabah<n id="1" /> from Geba to Rimmon,<n id="2" /> south of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem will be raised up and will stay in its own place from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate<n id="3" /> and on to the Corner Gate,<n id="4" /> and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.<n id="5" />

I asked, &#8220;What are these going to do?&#8221; He answered, &#8220;These horns are the ones that have scattered Judah so that there is no one to be seen.<n id="1" /> But the blacksmiths have come to terrify Judah&#8217;s enemies<n id="2" /> and cut off the horns of the nations that have thrust themselves against the land of Judah in order to scatter its people.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>