chiefe promulgators of his Gospel, shal be of the Iewish nation: but the farre greatter number shal be of the Gentiles, the Iewes for their obstinacie reiected. ^note Yet they also in the end shal returne to Christ. Chap. I. ^note The prophet exhorteth the people to conuert to God, and not to imitate the euil examples of their fathers. 7. by a vision of an horseman, and diuers colored horses, he prophecieth bitter times: 18. confirming the same by an other vision of foure hornes.

1   In the eight moneth in the second yeare of king Darius the word of our Lord was made to Zacharie the sonne of Barachias, the sonne of Addo, the prophet, saying:

2   Our Lord hath bene wrath vpon your fathers with wrath.

3   And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: ^note Conuert to me, sayth the Lord of hosts: and I wil conuert to you, sayth the Lord of hosts.

4   Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Conuert from your euil wayes, & from your most wicked thoughts: and they heard not, neither attended to me, sayth our Lord.

5   Your fathers where are they? and the prophets shal they liue for euer?

6   But yet my wordes, & mine ordinances, which I gaue in commandment to my seruants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers, and they conuerted, & sayd: As the Lord of hosts thought to do to vs according to our wayes, & according to our inuentions, he hath done to vs.

7   In the foure & twentith day of the eleuenth moneth Sabath: in the second yeare of Darius, the word of our Lord was made to Zacharie the sonne of Barachias, the sonne of Addo, the prophet, saying:

8   I saw by night, and behold ^notea man mounting vpon a red horse, & he stood among the myrtletrees, that were in the botome: and after him horses red, speckled, and white.

9   And I sayd: What are these, my Lord? and the Angel that spake in me, sayd to me: I wil shew thee what these thinges are.

10   And the man, that stood among the myrtle trees answered, & sayd: These are they, whom our Lord sent to walke through the earth.

11   And they answered to the Angel of our Lord, which stood among the mirtle trees, & sayd: We haue walked through the earth, and loe al the earth is inhabited, and at rest.

12   And the Angel of our Lord answered, and sayd: ô Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not haue mercie on Ierusalem, and on the cities of Iuda, with which thou hast

bene angrie? this now is ^note the seuentith yeare.

13   And our Lord answered the Angel, that spake in me, good wordes, comfortable wordes.

14   And the Angel that spake in me, sayd to me: Crie, saying: Thus sayth the Lord of hosts: I haue bene zelous for Ierusalem, and Sion with great zele.

15   And with great anger am I angrie vpon the welthie nations: because I was angrie a litle, but they helped toward the euil.

16   Therfore thus saith our Lord: I wil returne to Ierusalem in mercies: my house shal be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts: & the plumme line shal be stretched forth vpon Ierusalem.

17   As yet crie thou saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: As yet shal my cities flow with good thinges: and the Lord wil yet comfort Sion, and he wil yet choose Ierusalem.

18   And I lifted vp mine eyes, and saw: and behold ^note foure hornes.

19   And I sayd to the Angel, that spake in me: What are these: And he sayd to me: These are the hornes that haue scattered Iuda, and Israel, and Ierusalem.

20   And our Lord shewed me foure ^note artificers.

21   And I sayd: What come these to doe? Who spake saying: These are the hornes, that scattered Iuda euerie man a part, & none of them lifted his head: and these are come to fray them, to cast downe the hornes of the nations, that haue lifted the horne vpon the land of Iuda to scatter it. Chap. II. Vnder the name of Ierusalem, he prophecieth the progresse of the Church of Christ: 6. by the conuersion of some Iewes, 8. and manie Gentiles.

1   And I lifted vp mine eyes, and saw: and loe a man, and in his hand a corde of measurers.

2   And I sayd: Whither goest thou? And he sayd to me: To measure ^note Ierusalem, and to see how great the breadth therof is, and how great the length therof.

3   And behold the Angel that spake in me, came forth, and an other Angel went out to meete him.

4   And he sayd to him: Runne, speake to this yongman saying: Without wal shal Ierusalem be inhabited for the multitude of men, and of beasts in the middes therof.

5   And I wil be to it, sayth our Lord, a wal of fire round about: and I wil be in glorie in the middes therof.

6   O ^note flee ye out of the land of the North, saith our Lord, because into the foure windes of heauen haue I dispersed you, sayth our Lord.

7   O ^note Sion, flee thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon:

8   because thus sayth the Lord of hosts: After glorie he sent me to the nations, that

haue spoiled you: for he that shal touch you, toucheth the apple of myne eye:

9   because loe I lift vp my hand vpon them, and they shal be a praye to those that serued them: and you shal know that the Lord of hosts sent me.

10   Prayse, and reioyce ô daughter of Sion: because loe I come, and wil dwel in the middes of thee, sayth our Lord.

11   And manie nations shal be ioyned to our Lord in that day, and they shal be my people, and I wil dwel in the middes of thee: and thou shal know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me to thee.

12   And our Lord wil possesse Iuda his portion in the sanctified land: and he wil yet choose Ierusalem.

13   Let al flesh be silent at the presence of our Lord: because he is risen vp out of his holie habitation. Chap. III. ^note In a vision the diuel appeareth accusing the hiegh Priest. 4. He is clensed from his sinnes. 8. Christ is promised, and great fruite of his passion.

1   And our Lord shewed me ^note Iesus the grand priest standing before the Angel of our Lord: and Satan stood on his right hand, to be his aduersarie.

2   And our Lord sayd to Satan: The Lord geue rebuke on thee Satan: and the Lord that chose Ierusalem geue rebuke on thee: Why, is not this a firebrand, taken out of the fire?

3   And Iesus was clothed ^note with filthie garments: and he stood before the face of the Angel.

4   Who answered, and sayd to them that stood before him, saying: Take away the filthie garments from him. And he sayd to him: Behold I haue taken away thine iniquitie, and haue clothed thee with change of garments.

5   And he said: Put a cleane mitre vpon his head: & they put a cleane mitre vpon his head, and clothed him with garments: and the Angel of our Lord stood.

6   And the Angel of our Lord contested Iesus, saying:

7   Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If you wil walke in my wayes, and keepe my watch, thou also shalt iudge my house, and shalt keepe my courts, and I ^note wil geue thee walkers of them that now assist here.

8   Heare ô Iesus thou grand priest, thou and thy frendes that dwel before thee, because they are portending men: for behold I wil bring ^note my servant the Orient.

9   Because loe the stone that I layd before Iesus: vpon one stone there be seuen eyes, behold I wil graue the grauing therof, sayth the Lord of hosts: & I wil take away the iniquitie of that land in one day.

10   In that day, sayth the Lord of hosts, euerie man shal cal his frende vnder the vine and vnder the figtree.

Chap. IIII. In a vision of a candlestike and candles, 3. and of two oliue trees is prophecied the vocation of the Gentils, 11. and lastly of the Iewes.

1   And the Angel returned that spake in me: and he raysed me vp, as a man that is raysed out of his sleepe.

2   And he sayd to me: What seest thou? And I sayd: I saw, and ^note loe ^notea candlesticke al of gold, and ^note the lampe therof vpon the head of it: and the ^note seuen lights therof vpon it: and seuen funnels for the lights, that were vpon the head therof.

3   And ^notetow oliue trees vpon it: one on the right hand of the lampe, and one on the left hand therof.

4   And I answered, and I sayd to the Angel that spake in me, saying: What are these thinges, my Lord?

5   And the Angel that spake in me answered, and sayd to me: Why, knowest thou not what these thinges are? And I sayd: No, my Lord

6   And he answered, and sayd to me, saying: This is the word of our Lord ^note to Zorobabel, saying: Not in an host, nor in strength: but in my spirit, sayth the Lord of hosts.

7   Who art thou ô great mountayne before Zorobabel? into a plaine: and he wil bring forth the principal stone, and wil make grace equal to the grace therof.

8   And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:

9   The handes of Zorobabel haue founded this house, and his handes shal perfice it: and you shal know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me to you.

10   For who hath despised litle dayes? and they shal reioyce, and shal see the stone of tinne in the hand of Zorobabel. These are the seuen eyes of our Lord, that runne through out the whole earth.

11   And I answered, and sayd to him: What are these two oliuetrees on the right hand of the candlestike, and on the left hand therof?

12   And I answered the second time, and sayd to him: What are the ^note two branches of oliuetrees, that are beside the two beaks of gold, in which are the funnels of gold?

13   And he sayd to me, saying: Why, knowest thou not what these are? And I sayd: No, my Lord.

14   And he sayd: These are two sonnes of oyle which assist the dominatour of the whole earth. Chap. V. In a vision of a flying booke theeues, and sweares are threatned: 5. in an other vision is foreshewed that the Iewes shal be blind, and obdurate.

1   And I turned and lifted vp myne eyes: and I saw, and ^notebehold a volume ^note flying.

2   And he sayd to me: What

seest thou? And I sayd: I see a volume flying: the length therof of twentie cubits, and the breadth therof of ten cubits.

3   And he sayd to me: This is the malediction, that goeth forth vpon the face of the earth: because euerie theefe, as is there written, shal be iudged: and euerie swearer, by it in like maner shal be iudged.

4   I wil bring it forth, sayth the Lord of hosts: and it shal come to the house of the theefe, and to the house of him that sweareth by my name falsly: & it shal abide in the middes of his house, and shal consume it, and the timber therof, and the stones therof.

5   And the Angel went out that spake in me: and he sayd to me: Lift vp thine eyes, and see what is this, that goeth forth.

6   And I sayd: What is it? And he sayd: This is an amphore going forth. And he sayd: This is their eye in al the earth.

7   And behold a talent of lead was caried, and loe one woman sitting in the middes of the amphore.

8   And he sayd: This is impietie. And he threw her in the middes of the amphore, and cast a lumpe of lead vpon the mouth therof.

9   And I lifted vp mine eyes, and saw: and behold ^note two wemen coming forth, and spirit in the winges of them, and they had winges as the winges of a kite: and they lifted vp the amphore betwen the earth and the heauen.

10   And I sayd to the Angel that spake in me: Whither do these carie the amphore?

11   And he sayd to me: That a house may be built for it in the land ^note of Sennaar, and it may be established, and set there vpon the foundation therof. Chap. VI. ^note In a vision of chariots is foreshewed the succession of foure monarchies. 11. In crownes set on the high priests head, the Kingdom, and Priesthood of Christ: 15. and the rewards of them that receiue him.

1   And I turned, and lifted vp mine eyes, and saw: and behold ^notefoure chariots coming forrh from the middes of two mountaines: & the mountaines, mountaines of brasse.

2   In the first chariot-red horses, & in the second chariot blacke horses,

3   and in the third chariot white horses, and in the fourth chariot speckled horses, & strong.

4   And I answered, and sayd to the Angel, that spake in me: What are these thinges, my Lord?

5   And the Angel answered, and sayd to me: These are the foure windes of heauen, which goeforth to stand before the Dominatour of al the earth.

6   That, in which were the blacke horses went forth into the land of the North, and the

white went forth after them: and the speckled went forth to the land of the South.

7   But they that were strongest, went out, and sought to goe, and to runne about through out al the earth. And he sayd: Goe walke through out the earth: and they walked through out the earth.

8   And he called me, and spake to me, saying: Behold, they that goe forth into the land of the North, haue made my spirit to rest in the land of the North.

9   And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:

10   Take of the transmigration of Holdai, and of Tobias, and of Idaias: and thou shalt come in that day, and shalt enter into the house of Iosias, the sonne of Sophonias, who came out of Babylon.

11   And thou shalt take gold and siluer: & shalt make crownes, and thou shalt set on the head of Iesus the sonne of Iosedec the grand priest,

12   and thou shalt speake to him, saying: Thus sayth the Lord of hosts, ^note saying: Behold a man Orient is his name: and vnder him shal spring vp, and shal build a temple to our Lord.

13   And he shal build a temple to our Lord: and shal beare glorie, and shal sit, and rule vpon his throne: and he shal be a priest vpon his throne, and the counsel of peace shal be betwen them two.

14   And the crownes shal be to Helem, and Tobias, and Idaias, and Hem, the sonne of Sophonias, a memorial in the temple of our Lord.

15   And they that are far, shal come, and shal build in the temple of our Lord: and you shal know that the Lord of hosts sent me to you. But this shal be, if hearing you wil heare the voice of our Lord your God. Chap. VII. ^note The fast of the fift and seuenth moneth obserued in the captiuitie, being good, 5. was vnperfect, 8. fasting from sinne is alwayes more necessarie.

1   And it came to passe in the fourth yeare of Darius the king, the word of our Lord was made to Zacharie, in the fourth of the ninth moneth, which is Casleu.

2   And Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and the men that were with him, sent to the house of God, to besech the face of our Lord:

3   that they should say to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying: Must I weepe in ^note the fifth moneth, or must I sanctifie myself as now I haue done manie yeares?

4   And the word of the Lord of hosts was made to me, saying:

5   Speake to al the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seuenth for these seuentie yeares: ^note did you fast a fast vnto me?

6   and

when you did eate and drinke, did you not eate for your selues, and drinke for your selues?

7   Why, are they not the wordes, which our Lord spake in the hand of the former prophets, when Ierusalem as yet was inhabited, and was welthie, it self and the cities round about it, and toward the South, and in the champine there was dwelling?

8   And the word of our Lord was made to Zacharie, saying:

9   Thus sayth the Lord of hosts, saying: ^note Iudge ye true Iudgement, and doe ye mercie, & miserations euerie man with his brother.

10   And the widow, and the pupil, and the stranger, and the poore doe not calumniate: and let not a man thinke in his hart euil to his brother.

11   And they would not attend, and they turned away the shoulder departing: and they aggrauated their eares, not to heare.

12   And they made their hart as the adamant, lest they should heare the law, & the wordes which the Lord sent in his spirit by the hand of the former prophetes: and there was great indignation made from the Lord of hosts.

13   And it came to passe as he spake, and they heard not: so shal they crie, & I wil not heare, sayth the Lord of hosts.

14   And I dispersed them through out al kingdoms, which they know not: and the land was left desolate of them, for that there was none passing & returning: and the land to be desired they layd into a desert. Chap. VIII. ^note God wil geue abundance of spiritual benefites to al nations by Christ: 7. to whom shal be conuerted 13. manie Iewes, 20. but manie more Gentiles.

1   And the word of the Lord of hosts was made, saying:

2   Thus sayth the Lord of hostes: I haue bene ielous for Sion with great zeale, and with great indignation haue I bene ielous for it.

3   Thus sayth the Lord of hosts: ^note I am returned to Sion, and I wil dwel in the middes of Ierusalem: and Ierusalem shal be called the Citie of truth, & the Mount of the Lord of hosts, the sanctified mount.

4   Thus sayth the Lord of hosts: As yet shal old men dwel, and old wemen in the streets of Ierusalem: and euerie mans stafe in his hand for multitude of yeares.

5   And the streets of the citie shal be filled with infantes, and girles playing in the streets therof.

6   Thus sayth the Lord of hosts: If it shal seme hard in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those dayes: Why, shal it be hard in mine eyes, sayth the Lord of hosts?

7   Thus sayth the Lord of hosts: Behold I wil saue my people from the land of ^note the East, and from the

land of the Going downe of the sunne.

8   And I wil bring them, and they shal dwel in the middes of Ierusalem: and they shal be my people, and I wil be their God in truth and in iustice.

9   Thus sayth the Lord of hosts: Let your handes be strengthned, you that heare in these dayes these words by the mouth of the prophets in the day, that the house of the Lord of hosts was founded, that the temple might be built.

10   For before those dayes there was no hyre for men, neither was there hyre for beasts, neither was there peace to the comer in, nor goer out for tribulation: and I did let goe al men, euerie one against his neighbour.

11   But now not according to the former dayes wil I doe to the remnant of this people, sayth the Lord of hosts,

12   but the seede of peace shal be: the vine shal geue his fruite, and the earth shal geue her spring, and the heauens shal geue their dew: and I wil make the remnant of this people to possesse al these thinges.

13   And it shal be: as you were a malediction among the Gentils, ô house of Iuda, & house of Israel: so wil I saue you, and you shal be a benediction: feare not, let your handes be strengthned.

14   Because thus sayth the Lord of hosts: As I purposed to afflict you, when your fathers had prouoked me to wrath, sayth our Lord,

15   and I had no mercie: so conuerting I haue meant in these dayes to doe good to the house of Iuda, and Ierusalem: feare not.

16   These then are the wordes, which you shal doe: Speake ye truth, euerie one with his neighbour: truth and iudgement of peace iudge ye in your gates.

17   And thinke ye not euerie man in your hart euil against his frend: & lying othe loue ye not: for al these things are such as I hate, sayth our Lord.

18   And the word of our Lord of hosts was made to me, saying:

19   Thus sayth the Lord of hosts: The fast ^note of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seuenth, and the fast of the tenth shal be to the house of Iuda into ioy, and gladnes, & into goodlie solemnities: truth onlie, and peace loue ye.

20   Thus sayth the Lord of hosts, vntil peoples come, & dwel in manie cities,

21   and the inhabitants goe, one to an other, saying: Let vs goe, and besech the face of our Lord, and let vs seeke the Lord of hosts: I also wil goe.

22   And manie peoples shal come, and strong nations to seeke the Lord of hosts in Ierusalem, & to besech the face of our Lord.

23   Thus sayth the Lord of hosts: In those dayes, wherein ten men of al the tongue of the Gentils shal take hold, and they shal take hold of the skirt of a man that is a Iewe, saying: We wil goe with you: for we haue heard that God is with you.

Chap. IX. ^note The bordering enimies of the Iewes shal beleue in Christ. 9. who wil first come to the Iewes in mekenes, yet in solemnitie riding on an asse: 11. deliuer the godlie from the lake, 12. geue great thinges to the faithful, 17. and one most excellent thing aboue the rest.

1   The ^note burden of the word of our Lord in the land of ^noteHadrach, & Damascus his rest: because our Lord is the eye of man, and of al the tribes of Israel.

2   Emath also in the borders therof, and Tyre, and Sidon: for they haue taken to themselues wisedom excedingly.

3   And Tyre hath built her munition, and heaped together siluer as earth, and gold as the myre of the streets.

4   Behold our Lord shal possesse her, and shal strike her strength in the sea, and she shal be deuoured with fyre.

5   Ascalon shal see, and shal feare, and Gaza, and shal be sorie excedingly: & Accaron, because her hope is confounded: and the king shal perish out of Gaza, & Ascalon shal not be inhabited.

6   And the seperatour shal sit in Azotus, and I wil destroy the pride of the Philisthims.

7   And I wil take away his bloud out of his mouth, and his abominations out of the middes of his teeth: and he also shal be left to our God, and he shal be as a duke in Iuda, and Accaron as a Iebuseite.

8   And I wil enuiron my house of them, that serue me in warfayre going and returning, and the exactour shal no more passe ouer them: because now I haue sene with myne eyes.

9   Reioyce greatly ô daughter of Sion, make iubilation ô daughter of Ierusalem: Behold thy king ^note wil come to thee, the iust and sauiour: himself poore, and ryding vpon an asse, and vpon a colt the fole of an asse.

10   And I wil destroy chariot out of Ephraim, and horse out of Ierusalem, and the bow of warre shal be dissipated: and he shal speake peace to the Gentils, and his power from sea euen to sea, and from the riuers euen to the end of the earth.

11   Thou also in the bloud of thy testament hast let forth thy prisoners out of ^note the lake, wherin is no water.

12   Conuert to the munition ye prisoners of hope, to day also declaring I wil render thee duble.

13   Because I haue bent Iuda for me as a bow, I haue filled Ephraim: and I wil rayse vp thy sonnes ô Sion vpon thy sonnes ô Greece, & I wil make thee as the sword of the strong.

14   And our Lord God shal be seene ouer them, and his dart shal goe forth as lightning: & our Lord God wil sound with trumpet, and wil goe in the whirlewind of the

South.

15   The Lord of hosts wil protect them: and they shal deuoure, and subdew with the stones of the sling: and drinking they shal be drunke as it were of wine, & they shal be filled as phials, and as the hornes of the altar.

16   And our Lord their God wil saue them in that day, as the flocke of his people: because holie stones shal be eleuated ouer his land.

17   For what is his good thing, and what is his beautiful thing, but ^note the corne of the elect, and wine springing virgins? Chap. X. ^note The Iewes are exhorted to aske good thinges of God: 4. of their nation cometh the Redemer of al men, 5. and of the same are the Apostles, spiritual masters of the whole world. 6. The whole nation shal at last be conuerted.

1   Aske of our Lord rayne in ^note the lateward time, and our Lord wil make snowes, and wil geue them rayne of showers, to euerie one grasse in the filde.

2   Because the idols spake that which was vnprofitable, and the deuiners saw a lie, & the dreamers spake in vayne: they comforted vaynely: therfore are they led away as a flock: they shal be afflicted, because they haue no pastour.

3   Vpon the pastours my furie is wrath, and vpon the buckgoates I wil visite: because the Lord of hosts hath visited his flocke, the house of Iuda, and hath made them as the horse of his glorie in the battel.

4   Of him the corner, of him the pinne, of him the bow of battel, of him shal come forth euerie exactour together.

5   And they shal be as valients, treading the myre of the wayes in battel: and they shal fight, because our Lord is with them: and the riders of horses shal be confounded.

6   And I wil strengthen the house of ^note Iuda, and the house ^note of Ioseph I wil saue: and I wil conuert them, because I wil haue mercie on them: and they shal be as they were when I had not cast them of, for I am the Lord their God, and wil heare them.

7   And they shal be as the valients of Ephraim, & their hart shal reioyce as it were of wine: and their children shal see, and shal reioyce, & their hart shal be ioyful in our Lord.

8   I ^note wil hisse to them, and wil gather them together, because I haue redemed them: and I wil multiplie them as they were multiplied before.

9   And I wil saw them among peoples, and from a far they shal remember me: and they shal liue with their children, and shal returne.

10   And I wil bring them backe out of the Land of Ægypt, and out of the Assyrians I wil gather them: and to the Land of Galaad, & Libanus

I wil bring them, and there shal not be found place for them.

11   And he shal passe ouer in the strayte of the sea, and shal strike the waues in the sea, and al the depths of the riuer shal be confounded, and ^note the pride of Assur shal be humbled, and the scepter of Ægypt shal depart.

12   I wil strengthen them in the Lord, and in his name they shal walke: sayth our Lord. Chap. XI. ^note Ierusalem shal be againe most miserably destroyed, 4. the Iewish nation reiected and dispersed, 12. because Christ was sold by them to the Gentils for thirtie pence. 16. They wil receiue Antichrist, who shal be finally destroyed.

1   Open thy gates ^note ô Libanus, and let fyre deuoure thy ceders.

2   Howle thou firre tree, because the ceder is fallen, because the magnifical are wasted: howle ye okes of Basan, because the fensed forrest is cut downe.

3   The voice of the howling of pastours, because their magnificence is wasted: the voice of the roaring of lions, because the pride of Iordan is wasted.

4   Thus sayth our Lord my God: Feede thou the cattel of slaughter,

5   which they that possessed, slew, and were not sorie, and they sold them, saying: Blessed be our Lord, we are become rich: and their pastours spared them not.

6   And I wil spare no more vpon the inhabitants of the earth, sayth our Lord: behold I wil deliuer men, euerie one in his neighbours hand, and in the hand of his king: and they shal cut the land in peeces, and I wil not deliuer it out of their hand.

7   And I wil feede the cattel of slaughter for this, ô ye poore of the flocke: and I tooke vnto me two roddes, one I called ^note Beautie, and the other I called Corde: and I fed the flocke.

8   And I cut of three pastours in one moneth, and my soule shrunke together at them: for their soule also varied on me.

9   And I sayd: I wil not feede you: that which dieth, let it dye: and that which is cut of, be it cut of: and let the rest deuoure euerie one his neighbours flesh.

10   & I tooke my rod that was called beautie, and I cut it of to make voyd my couenant, which I made with al peoples.

11   And it was made voyd in that day: and so the poore of the flocke that keepe for me, vnderstood, that it is the word of the Lord

12   And I sayd to them: If it be good in your eyes, bring hither my hyre: and if not, be quiet. And they weighed my hyre thirtie peeces of siluer.

13   And our Lord sayd to me, cast it forth to the statuarie, a goodlie price, that I was

priced at by them. And I tooke ^note the thirtie peeces of siluer: & I threw them into the house of our Lord to the statuarie.

14   And I ^note cut of my second rod, that was called Corde, that I might dissolue the brotherhood betwen Iuda and Israel.

15   And our Lord sayd to me: As yet take to thee the ^note vessels of a foolish pastour.

16   Because loe ^note I wil rayse vp a pastour in the land, which shal not visite thinges forsaken, the thing dispersed he shal not seeke, and the broken he shal not heale, & that which standeth he shal not nourish, and he shal eate the flesh of the fat ones, and their hoofes he shal dissolue.

17   O pastour, and idol, leauing the flocke: ^note the sword vpon his arme, & vpon his right eye: his arme shal be dried with withering, and his right eye waxing darke shal be obscured. Chap. XII. ^note The Iewes persecuting Christ and his Church, shal be sore afflicted. 6. The Church stil prospering: 11. the incredulous shal be condemned.

1   The burden of the word of our Lord vpon ^note Israel. Sayth our Lord extending the heauen, & founding the earth, & forming the spirit of man in him:

2   Behold I wil make Ierusalem a lintel of surfet to al peoples round about: yea & ^note Iuda shal be in the siege against Ierusalem.

3   And it shal be: In that day I wil make Ierusalem a stone of burden to al peoples: al that shal lift it, shal be torne with tearing: and al the kingdoms of the earth shal de gathered agaynst her.

4   In that day, sayth our Lord, I wil strike euerie horse into astonishment, and his rider into madnes: and vpon the house of Iuda I wil open mine eyes, and euerie horse of the peoples I wil strike with blindnes.

5   And the dukes of Iuda shal say in their hart: Let the inhabitants of Ierusalem be strengthened for me in the Lord of hosts their God.

6   In that day I wil make the dukes of Iuda as a furnace of fyre amongst stickes, and as a brand of fire in hay: and they shal deuoure to the right hand, & to the left al people round about: and Ierusalem shal be inhabited agayne in her place in Ierusalem.

7   And our Lord shal saue the tabernacles of Iuda, as in the begynning: that the house of Dauid glorie not magnifically, and the glorie of them that inhabite Ierusalem agaynst Iuda.

8   In that day shal our Lord protect the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and he that offended of them in that day shal be as Dauid: and the house of Dauid, as of God, as an Angel of our Lord in their sight.

9   And it shal be in that day: I wil

seeke to destroy al Nations, that come against Ierusalem.

10   And I wil powre out vpon the house of Dauid, & vpon the inhabitants of Ierusalem the spirit of grace, and of prayers: and they shal looke toward me, whom they pearced: and they shal lament him with lamentation as it were vpon an only begotten, and they shal sorow vpon him, as the maner is to be sorowful in the death of the first begotten.

11   In that day shal be great lamentation in Ierusalem, as the lamentation of ^note Adadremmon in the filde of Mageddon.

12   And the land shal lament: families and families apart: the families of the house of Dauid apart, and their wemen apart:

13   the families of the house of Nathan apart, and their wemen apart: the families of the house of Leui apart, and their wemen apart: the families of Semei apart, and their wemen apart.

14   Al the rest of the families, families and families apart, and their wemen apart. Chap. XIII. ^note In the Church of Christ al idolatrie shal be abolished. 6. In his passion his Apostles shal be dispersed, and they and others shal be proued by tribulations.

1   In ^note that day shal be a fountayne lying open to the house of Dauid, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem: for the ablution of the sinner, and of the menstruous woman.

2   And it shal be in that day, sayth the Lord of hosts: I wil destroy the names of idols out of the earth, & they shal be remembred no more: and the false prophetes, and the vncleane spirit I wil take away out of the earth.

3   And it shal be when any man shal prophecie any more, his father & his mother that begot him, shal say to him: Thou ^note shalt not liue: because thou hast spoken a lie in the name of our Lord. And his father, & his mother his parents shal strike him, when he shal prophecie.

4   And it shal be: in that day, the prophets shal be confounded euerie one by his owne vision, when he shal prophecie, neither shal they be couered with cloke of sackcloth, to lie:

5   But he shal say: I am no prophet, an husband man am I: because Adam my example from my youth.

6   And it shal be sayd to him: What are these wounds in the middes of thy handes? And he shal say: With these was I wounded in the house of them, that loued me.

7    ^noteSword be thou raysed vp vpon my pastour, and vpon the man that cleaueth to me, sayth the Lord of hosts: Strike the pastour, and the sheepe shal be dispersed: and I ^note wil turne

my hand to the litle ones.

8   And there shal be in al the earth, sayth our Lord: two parts in it shal be destroyed, and shal fayle: and ^note the third part shal be left in it.

9   And I wil bring the third part through fyre, and wil burne them as siluer is burnt: and I wil trie them as gold is tried. They shal cal my name, and I wil heare them. I wil say: Thou art my people; and they shal say: Our Lord my God. Chap. XIIII. ^note Ierusalem shal be destroyed, manie Iewes slaine, the rest made captiues: 3. Christs Church shal florish, 8. especially in the Gentils. 12. Persecuters shal be finally punished: 20. and the godlie procede in grace.

1   Behold the dayes of our Lord shal come, and thy spoyles shal be diuided in the middes of thee.

2   And I ^note wil gather together al nations to Ierusalem into battel, and the citie shal be taken, and the houses shal be wasted, and the wemen shal be defiled: and the halfe part of the citie shal goe forth into captiuitie, and the rest of the people shal not be taken away out of the citie.

3   And our Lord wil goe forth, and wil fight against those nations, as he fought in the day of conflict.

4   And his feete shal stand in that day vpon the mount of oliues, which is against Ierusalem toward the East: and the mount of oliues shal be clouen by the halfe part therof to the East, & to the Weast with a stiepe rupture exceding great, and halfe of the mountayne shal be seperated to the North, & halfe therof to the South.

5   And you shal flie to the valley of those mountaynes, because the valley of the mountaynes shal be ioyned euen to the next, and you shal flee as you fled from the face ^noteof the earthquake in the dayes of Ozias king of Iuda: and our Lord my God shal come, and al the saintes with him.

6   And it shal be in that day: there shal be no light, but cold and frost.

7   And there shal be one day, which is knowen to our Lord, not day nor night: & in the time of the euening there shal be light.

8   And it shal be in that day: ^note liuing waters shal issue forth out of Ierusalem: halfe of them to ^note the East sea, and halfe of them to the last sea: in ^note summer & in winter shal they be.

9   And our Lord shal be king ouer al the earth: in that day there shal be one Lord, & his name shal be one.

10   And al the land shal returne euen to the desert, from the hil of Remmon to the South of Ierusalem: and it shal be exalted, and shal dwel in her place, from

the gate of Beniamin euen to the place of the former gate, and euen to the gate of the corners: & from the towre of Hananeel euen to the kings presses.

11   And they shal dwel in it, and there shal be anathema no more: but Ierusalem shal sit secure.

12   And this shal be the plague, wherwith our Lord shal strike al nations, that haue fought against Ierusalem: ^note the flesh shal pine away of euerie one standing vpon his feete, and his eyes shal weare away in their holes, & their tongue shal consume away in their mouth.

13   In that day there shal be a great tumult of our Lord among them: and a man shal take the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shal be clasped vpon his neighbours hand

14   Yea and Iudas shal fight agaynst Ierusalem: and the riches of al nations round about shal be gathered together, gold, and siluer, and garments exceding manie.

15   And so shal there be ruine of horse, and mule, and camel, and asse, and of al the beasts, that shal be in those tents, as is this ruine.

16   And al ^note that shal be left of al Nations, that came against Ierusalem, shal goe vp from yeare to yeare, to adore the King, the Lord of hosts, and to celebrate the festiuitie of tabernacles.

17   And it shal be: he ^note that shal not ascend of the families of the land to Ierusalem, to adore the King, the Lord of hosts, there shal be no showre vpon them.

18   Yea and if the familie of Ægypt shal not ascend, and shal not come: neither vpon them shal it be, but ruine shal be, wherwith our Lord wil strike al Nations that wil not ascend to celebrate the festiuitie of tabernacles.

19   This shal be the sinne of Ægypt, and this the sinne of al Nations, that wil not ascend to celebrate the festiuitie of tabernacles.

20   In that day shal that which is vpon the bridle of the horse be holie to our Lord: and the caudrons in the house of our Lord shal be as the phials before the altar.

21   And euerie caudron in Ierusalem, and Iuda shal be sanctified to the Lord of hosts: and al that immolate, shal come, and take of them, and shal sethe in them: & there shal be merchant no more in the house of the Lord of hosts in that day.

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