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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Zechariah 3 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/zechariah/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/zechariah/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Zechariah 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../zechariah/2.htm" title="Zechariah 2">◄</a> Zechariah 3 <a href="../zechariah/4.htm" title="Zechariah 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/zechariah/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">A Vision of Joshua the High Priest</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and Satan<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew the Accuser or the Adversary">a</a></sup></span> standing at his right hand to accuse him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Satan, “The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> rebuke you, O Satan! The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, a burning stick">b</a></sup></span> plucked from the fire?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Now Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed with filthy garments. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the angel said to those who were standing before him, “Remove the filthy garments from him.” And to him he said, “Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with pure vestments.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was standing by.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> solemnly assured Joshua, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts: If you will walk in my ways and keep my charge, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right of access among those who are standing here. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For behold, on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven eyes,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or facets">c</a></sup></span> I will engrave its inscription, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>In that day, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, every one of you will invite his neighbor to come under his vine and under his fig tree.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Hebrew <i>the Accuser</i> or <i>the Adversary</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> That is, <span class="catch-word">a</span> burning stick<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Or <i>facets</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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