Zechariah 14

The Lord’s Triumph and Reign

14A day of the Lord is coming ^hwhen your plunder will be divided in your presence. ²I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle. ⁱThe city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.

³Then the Lord will go out to fight against those nations as He fights on a day of battle. ^j4On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, ^kwhich faces Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in half from east to west, forming a huge valley, so that half the mountain will move to the north and half to the south. ⁵You will flee by My mountain valley, ^lfor the valley of the mountains will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled ^mfrom the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. ⁿThen the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones ^owith Him. ^pq

⁶On that day there will be no light; the sunlight and moonlight ^rwill diminish. ^st7It will be a day known only to Yahweh, ^uwithout day or night, but there will be light at evening.

⁸On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, ^vhalf of it toward the eastern sea ^wand the other half toward the western sea, ^xin summer and winter alike. ⁹On that day Yahweh will become King over all the earth ^y—Yahweh alone, and His name alone. ^z10All the land from Geba ^ato Rimmon ^bsouth of Jerusalem will be changed into a plain. But Jerusalem will be raised up and will remain ^con its site from the Benjamin Gate ^dto the place of the First Gate, ^eto the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses. ^f11People will live there, and never again will there be a curse of complete destruction. So Jerusalem will dwell in security.

¹²This will be the plague the Lord strikes all the peoples with, who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. ¹³On that day a great panic from the Lord will be among them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the other. ¹⁴Judah will also fight at Jerusalem, and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected: gold, silver, and clothing in great abundance. ^g15The same plague as the previous one will strike ^hthe horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the animals that are in those camps.

¹⁶Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, and to celebrate the Festival of Booths. ⁱ¹⁷Should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, rain will not fall on them. ¹⁸And if the people ^jof Egypt will not go up and enter, then rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague the Lord inflicts on the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Booths. ¹⁹This will be the punishment of Egypt and all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Booths.

²⁰On that day, the words

HOLY TO THE LORD

will be on the bells of the horses. ^kThe pots in the house of the Lord will be like the sprinkling basins before the altar. ²¹Every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of Hosts. Everyone who sacrifices will come and take some of the pots to cook in. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite ^lin the house of the Lord of Hosts.