Zechariah 12–14

12^aThe burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord,

^bWhich stretcheth forth the heavens, and ^clayeth the foundation of the earth,

And ^bdformeth the spirit of man within him.

²Behold, ^eI will make Jerusalem ^fa cup of ^||gtrembling unto all the people round about,

^||When they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

³And ^hin that day will I make Jerusalem ⁱa burdensome stone for all people:

^jAll that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces,

^kThough all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

^4hIn that day, saith the Lord,

^lI will smite every horse with ^mastonishment, and his rider with ^mmadness:

And ⁿI will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah,

And ^lwill smite every horse of the people with ^mblindness.

⁵And ^othe governors of Judah shall say in their heart,

^||The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength

In the Lord of hosts their God.

^6hIn that day will I make ^othe governors of Judah ^plike an hearth of fire among the wood,

And like a torch of fire in a sheaf;

And ^qthey shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left:

And ^rJerusalem shall be inhabited again ^sin her own place, even in Jerusalem.

⁷The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first,

That the glory of the house of David

And the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem

Do not magnify themselves against Judah.

^8hIn that day shall the Lord ^tdefend the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

And ^uhe that is ^||†feeble among them ^hat that day shall be as David;

And the house of David shall be as God,

As ^vthe angel of the Lord before them.

⁹And it shall come to pass ^hin that day,

That I will seek ^wto destroy all the nations

That come against Jerusalem.

¹⁰And ^xI will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

The spirit of grace and of ^ysupplications:

And ^zthey shall look upon me whom they ^ahave pierced,

And ^bthey shall mourn for him, as ^cone mourneth for ^dhis only son,

And shall be ^cin bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

^11eIn that day ^fshall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem,

^gAs the mourning of ^hHadadrimmon in the valley of ⁱMegiddon.

¹²And ^fthe land shall mourn, ^†kevery family apart;

The family of the house of David apart, and ^kltheir wives apart;

The family of the house of ^mNathan apart, and their wives apart;

¹³The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart;

The family ^||of ⁿShimei apart, and their wives apart;

¹⁴All the families that remain,

Every family apart, and their wives apart.

13^aIn that day there shall be ^ba fountain opened

To the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem

^cFor sin and for ^†uncleanness.

²And it shall come to pass ^ain that day, saith the Lord of hosts,

That ^dI will cut off ^ethe names of the idols out of the land,

And ^fthey shall no more be remembered:

And also I will ^gcause the prophets and ^hthe unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

³And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy,

Then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live;

For thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord:

And ⁱhis father and his mother that begat him ^kshall thrust him through when he prophesieth.

⁴And it shall come to pass ^ain that day,

That the prophets ^lshall be ashamed every one ^lof his vision, when he hath prophesied;

Neither ^mshall they wear ^†a rough garment ^†to deceive:

⁵But he shall say, ⁿI am no prophet, I am an husbandman;

For man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

⁶And one shall say unto him, What are ^othese wounds in thine hands?

Then he shall answer, Those ^owith which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

⁷Awake, O sword, against ^pmy shepherd, and against ^qthe man that is ^rmy fellow,

Saith the Lord of hosts:

^stSmite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered:

And I will turn mine hand upon ^uthe little ones.

⁸And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord,

^vTwo parts therein shall be cut off and die;

But ^wthe third shall be left therein.

⁹And I will bring ^wthe third part through the fire,

And ^xwill ^yrefine them as silver is refined,

And ^xwill ^ztry them as gold is tried:

^aThey shall call on my name, and ^bI will hear them:

I ^cwill say, It is my people:

^cAnd they shall say, The Lord is my God.

14^aBehold, the day of the Lord cometh,

And thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

²For ^bI will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle;

And ^cthe city shall be taken, and ^dthe houses rifled, and ^dethe women ravished;

And ^fhalf of the city shall go forth into captivity,

And ^fthe residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

³Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations,

^gAs when he fought in the day of battle.

⁴And his feet shall stand ^hin that day upon ⁱthe mount of Olives,

Which is before Jerusalem on the east,

And the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west,

And there shall be ^ka very great valley;

And half of the mountain shall ^lremove toward the north,

And half of it toward the south.

⁵And ye shall flee to the valley of ^||the mountains;

^||For ^kthe valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal:

Yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before ^mthe earthquake

^*In the days of Uzziah king of Judah:

And ^nothe Lord my God shall come,

And ^opall the saints with thee.

⁶And it shall come to pass ^hin that day,

^||That the light shall not be ^†clear, nor ^†dark:

⁷But ^||it shall be ^qone day ^rwhich shall be known to the Lord,

Not day, nor night:

But it shall come to pass, that ^sat evening time it shall be light.

⁸And it shall be ^hin that day,

That ^tliving waters shall go out from Jerusalem;

Half of them toward ^uthe ^||former sea,

And half of them toward ^uthe hinder sea:

^vIn summer and in winter shall it be.

⁹And ^wthe Lord shall be king over all the earth:

^hIn that day shall there be ^xone Lord, and ^yhis name one.

¹⁰All the land shall be ^||turned ^zas a plain from ^aGeba to ^bRimmon south of Jerusalem:

And ^cit shall be lifted up, and ^d||inhabited in her place,

From ^eBenjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto ^fgthe corner gate,

And from ^fhthe tower of Hananeel unto the king’s ⁱwinepresses.

¹¹And men shall dwell in it, and ^jthere shall be no more ^kutter destruction;

But Jerusalem ^||shall be ^lsafely inhabited.

¹²And this shall be ^mthe plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people

ⁿThat have fought against Jerusalem;

Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,

And their eyes shall consume away in their holes,

And ⁿⁿtheir tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

¹³And it shall come to pass ^oin that day,

That a great ^ptumult ^qfrom the Lord shall be among them;

And they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour,

And ^rhis hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

¹⁴And ^||Judah also shall fight ^||at Jerusalem;

And ^sthe wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together,

^tGold, and silver, and ^uapparel, in great abundance.

¹⁵And ^mso shall be the plague ^vof the horse,

Of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass,

And of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.

¹⁶And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations

ⁿWhich came against Jerusalem

^wShall even go up ^xfrom year to year

To worship ^ythe King, the Lord of hosts,

And ^zto keep ^athe feast of tabernacles.

¹⁷And it shall be, ^bthat whoso will not come up

Of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem

To worship ^cthe King, the Lord of hosts,

Even ^dupon them shall be no rain.

¹⁸And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, ^†ethat have no rain;

There shall be ^fthe plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen

That come not up ^zto keep the feast of tabernacles.

¹⁹This shall be ^gthe ^||punishment of Egypt,

And ^gthe punishment of all nations

That come not up ^zto keep the feast of tabernacles.

^20hIn that day shall there be upon the ^||bells of the horses,

ⁱHOLINESS UNTO THE LORD;

And ^kthe pots in the Lord’s house shall be like ^lthe bowls before the altar.

²¹Yea, every ^kpot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts:

And all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and ^kseethe therein:

And ^hin that day ^mthere shall be no more ⁿthe Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.