19. Are any seeds still left in your barns? Until now, your vines and fig trees have not produced any fruit. Your pomegranate and olive trees have not produced any either. " 'But from this day on I will bless you.' "
20. A final message came to me from the Lord. It also came on the 24th day of the ninth month. He said,
21. "Speak to Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah. Tell him I will shake the heavens and the earth.
22. I will throw down royal thrones. I will smash the power of other kingdoms. I will destroy chariots and their drivers. Horses and their riders will fall. They will be killed with the swords of their relatives.