Zechariah 12–13

¹The burden of a word of Jehovah on Israel. An affirmation of Jehovah, Stretching out heaven, and founding earth, And forming the spirit of man in his midst. ²Lo, I am making Jerusalem a cup of reeling To all the peoples round about, And also against Judah it is, In the siege against Jerusalem. ³And it hath come to pass, in that day, I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone to all the peoples, All loading it are completely pressed down, And gathered against it have been all nations of the earth. ⁴In that day—an affirmation of Jehovah, I do smite every horse with astonishment, And its rider with madness, And on the house of Judah I open My eyes, And every horse of the peoples I smite with blindness. ⁵And leaders of Judah have said in their heart, ‘Strength to me are the inhabitants of Jerusalem, In Jehovah of Hosts their God.’ ⁶In that day I make the leaders of Judah As a hearth of fire among trees, And as a torch of fire in a sheaf, And they have consumed—on the right and on the left—all the peoples round about, And Jerusalem hath inhabited again her place in Jerusalem. ⁷And saved hath Jehovah the tents of Judah first, So that become not great against Judah Doth the beauty of the house of David, And the beauty of the inhabitant of Jerusalem. ⁸In that day cover over doth Jehovah the inhabitant of Jerusalem, And the stumbling among them hath been in that day as David, And the house of David as God—As a messenger of Jehovah—before them.

⁹And it hath come to pass, in that day, I seek to destroy all the nations Who are coming in against Jerusalem, ¹⁰And I have poured on the house of David, And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, A spirit of grace and supplications, And they have looked unto Me whom they pierced, And they have mourned over it, Like a mourning over the only one, And they have been in bitterness for it, Like a bitterness over the first-born. ¹¹In that day, great is the mourning of Jerusalem, As the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon, ¹²And mourned hath the land—every family apart, The family of the house of David apart, And their women apart; The family of the house of Nathan apart, And their women apart; ¹³The family of the house of Levi apart, And their women apart; The family of Shimei apart, And their women apart, ¹⁴All the families that are left, Every family apart, and their women apart!

Chapter 13

¹In that day there is a fountain opened To the house of David And to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, For sin and for impurity. ²And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, I cut off the names of the idols from the land, And they are not remembered any more, And also the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness I cause to pass away from the land. ³And it hath been, when one prophesieth again, That said unto him have his father and his mother, his parents, ‘Thou dost not live, For falsehood thou hast spoken in the name of Jehovah,’ And pierced him through have his father and his mother, his parents, in his prophesying. ⁴And it hath come to pass, in that day, Ashamed are the prophets, each of his vision, in his prophesying, And they put not on a hairy robe to deceive. ⁵And one hath said, ‘I am not a prophet, A man, a tiller of ground I am, For ground is my possession from my youth.’ ⁶And one hath said unto him, ‘What are these wounds in thy hands?’ And he hath said, ‘Because I was smitten at home by my lovers.’

⁷Sword, awake against My shepherd, And against a hero—My fellow, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts. Smite the shepherd, and scattered is the flock, And I have put back My hand on the little ones. ⁸And it hath come to pass, In all the land, an affirmation of Jehovah, Two parts in it are cut off—they expire, And the third is left in it. ⁹And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, ‘My people it is,’ And it saith, ‘Jehovah is my God!’

Chapter 14