Zechariah 14:1–20

God Will Battle Jerusalem’s Foes

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

²For 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 exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

³Then the Lord will go forth and ^afight against those nations, as ¹when He fights on a day of battle.

⁴In 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.

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

⁶In that day there will be ^ano light; the ¹luminaries will dwindle.

⁷For it will be ^aa unique day which is ^bknown to the Lord, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at ^cevening time there will be light.

⁸And in that day ^aliving 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.

God Will Be King over All

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

¹⁰All the land will be changed into a plain from ^aGeba to ^bRimmon south of Jerusalem; but ¹Jerusalem will ^crise and ^dremain on 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.

¹¹¹People will live in it, and there will ^ano longer be a curse, for Jerusalem will ^bdwell in security.

¹²Now this will be the plague with which the Lord will strike 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.

¹³It will come about in that day that a great panic from the Lord will ¹fall on them; and they will ^aseize one another’s hand, and the hand of one will ²be lifted against the hand of another.

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

¹⁵So also like this ^aplague will be the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey and all the cattle that will be in those camps.

¹⁶Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will ^ago up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord 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, the Lord of hosts, there will be ^bno rain on them.

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

¹⁹This will be the ¹punishment of Egypt, and the punishment 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 THE LORD.” And the ^bcooking pots in the Lord’s house will be like the bowls before the altar.