14The day when the Lord will sit in judgement is near. Then Jerusalem will be looted, and the loot will be divided up before your eyes. ²The Lord will bring all the nations together to make war on Jerusalem. The city will be taken, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the people will go into exile, but the rest of them will not be taken away from the city. ³Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he has fought in times past. ⁴At that time he will stand on the Mount of Olives, to the east of Jerusalem. Then the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west by a large valley. Half the mountain will move northwards and half of it southwards. ⁵You will escape through this valley that divides the mountain in two.^t You will flee as your ancestors did when the earthquake struck in the time of King Uzziah of Judah. The Lord my God will come, bringing all the angels with him.

⁶When that time comes, there will no longer be cold or frost,^u ⁷nor any darkness. There will always be daylight, even at night-time. When this will happen is known only to the Lord.

⁸^*When that day comes, fresh water will flow from Jerusalem, half of it to the Dead Sea and the other half to the Mediterranean. It will flow all the year round, in the dry season as well as the wet. ⁹Then the Lord will be king over all the earth; everyone will worship him as God and know him by the same name.

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Footnotes

tProbable text You will escape … in two; Hebrew unclear.
uProbable text cold or frost; Hebrew unclear.

Cross references

*14.8: Ez 47:1; Jn 7:38; Rev 22:1