Zechariah 10

1 And he shall answer: There is an end. And he shall say to him: Hold thy peace, and mention not the name of the Lord. 2 For behold the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the greater house with breaches, and the lesser house with clefts. 3 Can horses run upon the rocks, or can any one plough with buffles? for you have turned judgment into bitterness, and the fruit of justice into wormwood. 4 You that rejoice in a thing of nought: you that say: Have we not taken unto us horns by our own strength? 5 But behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall destroy you from the entrance of Emath, even to the torrent of the desert. 7 These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the locust was formed in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter rain, and lo, it was the latter rain after the king’s mowing. 8 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, I said: O Lord God, be merciful, I beseech thee: who shall raise up Jacob, for he is very little? 9 The Lord had pity upon this: It shall not be, said the Lord. 10 These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the Lord called for judgment unto fire, and it devoured the great deep, and ate up a part at the same time. 11 And I said: O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee, who shall raise up Jacob, for he is a little one? 12 The Lord had pity upon this. Yea this also shall not be, said the Lord God.