Zechariah 14:1–14

Future Warfare and Final Victory

¹⁴See, a day is coming for the Lord, when the plunder taken from you will be divided in your midst.^{* 2}For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped; half the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.^{* 3}Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.^{* 4}On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives, which lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the mount shall withdraw northward and the other half southward.^{* 5}And you shall flee by the valley of the Lord’s mountain,^w for the valley between the mountains shall reach to Azal,^x and you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with him.^*

⁶On that day there shall not be^y either cold or frost.^{z 7}And there shall be continuous day (it is known to the Lord), not day and not night, for at evening time there shall be light.^*

⁸On that day living water shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of it to the eastern sea and half of it to the western sea; it shall continue in summer as in winter.^*

⁹And the Lord will become king over all the earth; on that day the Lord will be one and his name one.^*

¹⁰The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem^a shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.^{* 11}And it shall be inhabited, for never again shall it be doomed to destruction; Jerusalem shall abide in security.^*

¹²This shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh shall rot while they are still on their feet, their eyes shall rot in their sockets, and their tongues shall rot in their mouths.^{* 13}On that day a great panic from the Lord shall fall on them, so that each will seize the hand of a neighbor, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other;^{* 14}even Judah will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected: gold, silver, and garments in great abundance.^*