Zakariah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 656

6 my youth!' And if ho is asked, ‘ What arc those tattoos than upon your hands? ’ he will reply, ‘ I was marked with them in the house of ’ W12 Siunrh rallzh in §zsai1 the Sbzplyzrh. ‘ Sword! arise against My Shape

herd! And against the man who is says the LORD OF Strike the Shepherd, and scatter the sheep; when I turn My hand against the young! And then it will follow that two parts in all the says but the third shall remain in it. Then I will pass that third through the fire, and refme it as silver is retined, and test themas gold is tested. It shall call on MY NAME, and I will answer it ;—-I will proclaim, ‘It is My People;' and it will exclaim ‘ MY Evrzn-Lxvme ’ W32 dliuming Qag nf ibn Eurh. Then the day of the LORD will come, and your spoil will be divided in your midst. For I shall collect all the Heathen against jerusalem to war, and they will capture the City, and plunder the houses, and ravish the women; and half the city shall go out to captivity, but the rest of the People shall not be cut off from the Then the Evan-Lrvruo will go out

to iight with those Heathen, as in a time of war, and Hx His feet at that time on the Mount of Olives, which is before jerusalem, on the East, and the Mount of Olives shall split in its centre from East to West,-—a very great valley,—·—and half of the Mount will remove to the North, and half to the South, and you will ily by the vale of My `Hi11,—for the vale of the Hill's dale will reach to Azal,-—and you will fly as you fled before the earthquake in the days of·Uziah, king of judah, when the EVER-L1vlNG GOD comes with all His Saints. And when that time arrives there

will not be the cold light of stars, but there will be continuous day, 14-··1g

the period of darkness comes there will be light! And in that period living waters

will extend from ]erusalem,——half to the Eastern sea, and half to the Western sea, both in summer and winter, and the EVER-LIVING will be King over all the earth in that period. There will be ONE LORD, and His NAME ONE! All the countrysouth of ]erusalem

will bevchanged like the plain from Geba to Rimmon, and be valuable and inhabited below it, from the Gate of Benjamin to the point of the Fore- gate, up to the Towers, and the Fort of Hananel, to the Royal Cellars. It will be inhabited, and there will be no more destruction ,—-—but jerusalem shall be inhabited in security. And this will be the disease with

which the Evan-Lrvme will afflict all the Peoples who have warred against jerusalem; their flesh will waste away whilst they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall waste away in their sockets, and their tongue waste away in their mouth, and then a great disturbance from the Even-Lxvxuoi will come upon them, and each will seize the hand of his neighbour, and rise up hand to hand to injure him; and judah also will ight against ]erusalem. Then all the Heathen will collect

their armies around, with gold, and silver, and with very many acco,utre· ments. But then a plague will come upon the horses, and mules; and camels and asses, and all the cattle that are in their camps, like the above disease.- IO II I2

®mrlm:zi¤¤ nf all aatimts fnrztnlh. Afterwards, all the remainder of 16* the Nations, who came against jeru- salem, will regularly go up, year by year, to honour the King,—-—the LOKD OF HOs1:s,·—-and will keep the Feast of Tabernacles. And whoever will not go up to jerusalem from their land to worship the King, the LORD OF Hosts, no rain shall fall upon them! And if the families of the _Mitzeraim do not arise and come, it will not fall on them. The EVER- L1V1NG will amict with a plague those of the Nations who do not ascend to keep the Feast of Tabernaoles. This

appointed by the EVER-L1vlNc;,·-— l will be the punishment of the Mit- neither day nor night, —~and when zeraim, and the punishment of every 656 18