⁴On that day,’ declares^e Yahweh, ‘I will strike every horse with confusion, and the one riding it with madness; but over the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open,^f and I will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. ⁵And the clans of Judah will say to themselves,^g “The inhabitants of Jerusalem are a strength to us,^h through Yahweh of hosts, their God.”

⁶“ ‘On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a pan of fire among sticks of wood, and like a torch of fire among stalksⁱ of grain, and they will devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, and Jerusalem will be inhabited again in its place, in Jerusalem. ⁷And Yahweh will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants^j of Jerusalem may not be exalted over Judah. ⁸On that day Yahweh will put a shield around the inhabitants^k of Jerusalem, and the one who stumbles among them on that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of Yahweh, before them.^l ⁹And then^m on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations coming against Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

eLiterally “declaration of”
fLiterally “I will open my eyes,” that is, “I will be responsive” or “I will pay attention”
gLiterally “in their heart”
hHebrew “me”
iHebrew “stalk”
jHebrew “inhabitant”
kHebrew “inhabitant”
lLiterally “to the face of them”
mLiterally “And it will happen”