Zechariah 12:1

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

This is a message from the Lord about Israel. The Lord is the one who made the earth and the sky, and he put the human spirit in people. And this is what the Lord said:

Cross References

Isaiah 42:5

The Lord, the true God, said these things. (He created the sky and spread it out over the earth. He formed the earth and everything it produced. He breathes life into all the people on earth. He gives a spirit to everyone who walks on the earth.)

Jeremiah 51:15

God used his great power and made the earth. He used his wisdom to build the world and his understanding to stretch out the skies.

Isaiah 57:16

I will not accuse my people forever. I will not always be angry. If I continued to show my anger, then the human spirit, the life I gave them, would die before me.

Hebrews 12:9

We have all had fathers here on earth who corrected us with discipline. And we respected them. So it is even more important that we accept discipline from the Father of our spirits. If we do this, we will have life.

Isaiah 48:13

I made the earth with my own hands. My right hand made the sky. And if I call them, they will come to stand before me.

Isaiah 44:24

The one who rescued you is the Lord, the one who formed you in your mother’s womb. He says, “I, the Lord, made everything. I put the skies there myself. I spread out the earth before me.”

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Your body came from the earth. And when you die, it will return to the earth. But your spirit came from God, and when you die, it will return to him.

Numbers 16:22

But Moses and Aaron bowed to the ground and cried out, “God, you know what people are thinking. Please don’t be angry with all these people. Only one man really sinned.”

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and made a man. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living thing.

Ezekiel 18:4

I will treat everyone, child and parent, just the same. The one who sins is the one who will die!

Jeremiah 38:16

But King Zedekiah secretly swore an oath to Jeremiah. Zedekiah said, “As surely as the Lord lives, who gives us breath and life, I will not kill you, Jeremiah. And I promise not to give you to the officials who want to kill you.”

Jeremiah 30:16

Those nations destroyed you, but now they have been destroyed. Israel and Judah, your enemies will become captives. They stole things from you, but others will steal from them. They took things from you in war, but others will take things from them in war.

Job 26:7

God stretched the northern sky over empty space. He hung the earth on nothing.

Jeremiah 10:12

God is the one who used his power and made the earth. He used his wisdom and built the world. With his understanding he stretched the sky over the earth.

Isaiah 51:13

“I, the Lord, am the one who made you. With my power I made the earth and spread the sky over the earth. But you have forgotten me, so you are always afraid that angry men will hurt you. Those men planned to destroy you, but where are they now?

Isaiah 45:18

The Lord is God. He made the skies and the earth. He put the earth in its place. He did not want the earth to be empty when he made it. He created it to be lived on. “I am the Lord. There is no other God.

Isaiah 45:12

I made the earth, and I created the people on it. I used my own hands to make the skies. And I command all the armies in the sky.

Isaiah 40:22

It is the Lord who sits above the circle of the earth. And compared to him, people are like grasshoppers. He rolled open the skies like a piece of cloth. He stretched out the skies like a tent to sit under.

Isaiah 40:12

Who measured the oceans in the palm of his hand? Who used his hand to measure the sky? Who used a bowl to measure all the dust of the earth? Who used scales to measure the mountains and hills?

Psalm 104:2

You wear light like a robe. You spread out the skies like a curtain.

Malachi 1:1

This is a message from the Lord to Israel. God used Malachi to tell this message to the people.

Zechariah 9:1

This is the Lord’s message against the land of Hadrach and against the city of Damascus. The tribes of Israel are not the only people who know about the Lord. Everyone looks to him for help.

Joel 3:21

Those people killed my people, so I really will punish them!” The Lord God will live in Zion!

Joel 3:19

Egypt will be empty. Edom will be an empty wilderness, because they were cruel to the people of Judah. They killed innocent people in their country.

Lamentations 2:14

Your prophets saw visions for you, but their visions were only worthless lies. They didn’t speak against your sins. They didn’t try to make things better. They spoke messages for you, but they were false messages that fooled you.

Jeremiah 50:34

But God will get them back. His name is the Lord God All-Powerful. He will defend them very strongly. He will argue their case so that he can let their land rest. But there will be no rest for those living in Babylon.”

Jeremiah 30:10

“So Jacob, my servant, don’t be afraid!” This message is from the Lord. “Israel, don’t be afraid. I will save you from that faraway place. You are captives in that faraway land, but I will save your descendants. I will bring them back from that land. Jacob will have peace again. People will not bother Jacob. There will be no enemy to frighten my people.

Job 37:18

Can you help God spread out the sky and make it shine like polished brass?

Genesis 1:8

God named that space “sky.” There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the second day.

Psalm 134:3

May the Lord, who made heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.