Zechariah 12–14

CHAPTER 12

Yahweh Will Save

¹The oracle of the word of Yahweh concerning Israel.

Thus declares Yahweh who ^astretches out the heavens, ^blays the foundation of the earth, and ^cforms the spirit of man within him,

²“Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a ^acup ¹that causes reeling to all the peoples all around. Now the one in siege against Jerusalem will also be against ^bJudah.

³“But it will be in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a heavy ^astone for all the peoples; all who heave it up will be ^bseverely ¹injured. And all the ^cnations of the earth will be gathered against it.

⁴“In that day,” declares Yahweh, “I will strike every horse with bewilderment and his rider with madness. But I will open my eyes to watch over the house of Judah, while I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.

⁵“Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘¹A strong support for us are the inhabitants of Jerusalem through Yahweh of hosts, their God.’

⁶“In that day I will make the clans of Judah like a ^afiery laver among pieces of wood and a fiery torch among sheaves, so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem will again be ^binhabited in its own place—in Jerusalem.

⁷“Yahweh also will ^asave the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of ^bDavid and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah.

⁸“In that day Yahweh will ^adefend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who ^bstumbles among them in that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like ^cGod, like the ^dangel of Yahweh before them.

⁹“And it will be in that day, that I will ^aseek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Mourning for the Pierced One

¹⁰“And I will ^apour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem ¹the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have ^bpierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one ^cmourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.

¹¹“In that day there will be great ^amourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the ¹plain of ²Megiddo.

¹²“And the land will mourn, each family alone; the family of the house of David alone and their wives alone; the family of the house of Nathan alone and their wives alone;

¹³the family of the house of Levi alone and their wives alone; the family of the Shimeites alone and their wives alone;

¹⁴all the families that remain, each family alone and their wives alone.

CHAPTER 13

Jerusalem Refined and Tested

¹“In that day a ^afountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for ^bsin and for ^cimpurity.

²“And it will be in that day,” declares Yahweh of hosts, “that I will ^acut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also cause the ^bprophets and the ^cunclean spirit to pass away from the land.

³“And it will be that if anyone still ^aprophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, ‘You shall ^bnot live, for you have spoken ^cfalsely in the name of Yahweh’; and his ^dfather and mother who gave birth to him will pierce him through when he prophesies.

⁴“And it will be in that day, that the prophets will each be ^aashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a ^bhairy mantle in order to deceive;

⁵but he will say, ‘I am ^anot a prophet; I am a cultivator of the ground, for a man ¹sold me as a slave in my youth.’

⁶“And one will say to him, ‘What are these wounds struck here ^abetween your ¹arms?’ Then he will say, ‘Those with which I was struck in the house of ²my friends.’

⁷“Awake, O ^asword, against My ^bShepherd

And against the man, My ^cAssociate,”

Declares Yahweh of hosts.

“^dStrike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered;

And I will ^eturn My hand ¹against the little ones.

⁸“And it will be in all the land,”

Declares Yahweh,

“That ^atwo parts in it will be cut off and breathe their last;

But the third will be left in it.

⁹“And I will bring the third part through the ^afire

And refine them as silver is refined

And test them as gold is tested.

¹They will ^bcall on My name,

And I will ^canswer them;

I will say, ‘They are ^dMy people,’

And they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”

CHAPTER 14

Yahweh Will Battle the Nations

¹Behold, a ^aday is coming for Yahweh when ^bthe spoil taken from you will be divided among you.

²Indeed, I will ^agather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the ^bhouses plundered, the women ravished, and half of the city will go forth in exile, but those left of the people will not be cut off from the city.

³Then Yahweh will go forth and ^afight against those nations, as the day when He fights on a day of battle.

⁴And in that day His feet will ^astand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be ^bsplit in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south.

⁵And you will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; indeed, you will flee just as you fled before the ^aearthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. ^bThen Yahweh, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with ¹Him!

⁶And it will be in that day, that there will be ^ano light; the ¹luminaries will dwindle.

⁷And it will be ^aa ¹unique day which is ^bknown to Yahweh, neither day nor night, but it will be that at ^cevening time there will be light.

⁸And it will be in that day, ^athat living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea; it will be in summer as well as in winter.

Yahweh Will Be King over All

⁹And Yahweh will be ^aking over all the earth; in that day Yahweh will be the only ^bone, and His name one.

¹⁰All the land will be changed into a plain from ^aGeba to ^bRimmon south of Jerusalem; but ¹Jerusalem will ^crise and ^dinhabit its site from ^eBenjamin’s Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the ^fCorner Gate, and from the ^gTower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.

¹¹And ¹people will inhabit it, and there will ^ano longer be anything devoted to destruction, for Jerusalem will ^bbe inhabited in security.

¹²Now this will be the plague with which Yahweh will plague all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will ^arot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.

¹³And it will be in that day, that abundant confusion from Yahweh will ¹fall on them; and they will ^atake hold of one another’s hand, and the hand of one will ²go up against the hand of another.

^14aAnd Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the ^bwealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold and silver and garments in great abundance.

¹⁵And in the same way, ^athe plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey, and all the cattle that will be in those camps will be like this plague.

¹⁶Then it will be that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will ^ago up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of hosts, and to celebrate the ^bFeast of Booths.

¹⁷And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the ^aKing, Yahweh of hosts, there will be ^bno rain on them.

¹⁸And if the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the ^aplague with which Yahweh plagues the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

¹⁹This will be the ¹punishment of Egypt, and the ²punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

²⁰In that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “^aHoly to Yahweh.” And the ^bpots in the house of Yahweh will be like the bowls before the altar.

²¹And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be ^aholy to Yahweh of hosts; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a ^1bCanaanite in the house of Yahweh of hosts in that day.