Zechariah 12-14

Zechariah 12

¹The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:

²See, I will make Jerusalem a cup of shaking fear to all the peoples round about, when Jerusalem is shut in.

³And it will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a stone of great weight for all the peoples; all those who take it up will be badly wounded; and all the nations of the earth will come together against it.

⁴In that day, says the Lord, I will put fear into every horse and make every horseman go off his head: and my eyes will be open on the people of Judah, and I will make every horse of the peoples blind.

⁵And the families of Judah will say in their hearts, The people of Jerusalem have their strength in the Lord of armies, their God.

⁶In that day I will make the families of Judah like a pot with fire in it among trees, and like a flaming stick among cut grain; they will send destruction on all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem will be living again in the place which is hers, that is, in Jerusalem.

⁷And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the family of David and the glory of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah.

⁸In that day the Lord will be a cover over the people of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them in that day will be as strong as David, and the family of David will be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.

⁹And it will come about on that day that I will take in hand the destruction of all the nations who come against Jerusalem.

¹⁰And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.

¹¹In that day there will be a great weeping in Jerusalem, like the weeping of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

¹²And the land will give itself to weeping, every family separately; the family of David by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Nathan by themselves, and their wives by themselves;

¹³The family of Levi by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by themselves, and their wives by themselves;

¹⁴And all the other families by themselves, and their wives by themselves.

Zechariah 13

¹In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean.

²And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the land.

³And if anyone goes on acting as a prophet, then his father and his mother who gave him life will say to him, You may not go on living, for you are saying what is false in the name of the Lord; and his father and his mother will put a sword through him when he does so.

⁴And it will come about in that day that the prophets will be shamed, every man on account of his vision, when he is talking as a prophet; and they will not put on a robe of hair for purposes of deceit:

⁵But he will say, I am no prophet, but a worker on the land; for I have been an owner of land from the time when I was young.

⁶And if anyone says to him, What are these wounds between your hands? then he will say, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

⁷Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.

⁸And it will come about that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts of it will be cut off and come to an end; but the third will be still living there.

⁹And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.

Zechariah 14

¹See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken by force before your eyes.

²For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.

³Then the Lord will go out and make war against those nations, as he did in the day of the fight.

⁴And in that day his feet will be on the Mount of Olives, which is opposite Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives will be parted in the middle to the east and to the west, forming a very great valley; and half the mountain will be moved to the north and half of it to the south.

⁵And the valley will be stopped ... and you will go in flight as you went in flight from the earth-shock in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah: and the Lord my God will come, and all his holy ones with him.

⁶And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice;

⁷And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light.

⁸And on that day living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them flowing to the sea on the east and half to the sea on the west: in summer and in winter it will be so.

⁹And the Lord will be King over all the earth: in that day there will be one Lord and his name one.

¹⁰And all the land will become like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up and be living in her place; from the doorway of Benjamin to the place of the first doorway, to the doorway of the angle, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's wine-crushing places, men will be living in her.

¹¹And there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will be living without fear of danger.

¹²And this will be the disease which the Lord will send on all the peoples which have been warring against Jerusalem: their flesh will be wasted away while they are on their feet, their eyes will be wasted in their heads and their tongues in their mouths.

¹³And it will be on that day that a great fear will be sent among them from the Lord; and everyone will take his neighbour's hand, and every man's hand will be lifted against his neighbour's.

¹⁴And even Judah will be fighting against Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about will be massed together, a great store of gold and silver and clothing.

¹⁵And the horses and the transport beasts, the camels and the asses and all the beasts in those tents will be attacked by the same disease.

¹⁶And it will come about that everyone who is still living, of all those nations who came against Jerusalem, will go up from year to year to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, and to keep the feast of tents.

¹⁷And it will be that if any one of all the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, on them there will be no rain.

¹⁸And if the family of Egypt does not go up or come there, they will be attacked by the disease which the Lord will send on the nations:

¹⁹This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to keep the feast of tents.

²⁰On that day all the bells of the horses will be holy to the Lord, and the pots in the Lord's house will be like the basins before the altar.

²¹And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of armies: and all those who make offerings will come and take them for boiling their offerings: in that day there will be no more traders in the house of the Lord of armies.