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God Will Battle Jerusalem’s Foes
1 Behold, a
Aday is coming for the Loʀᴅ when
Bthe spoil taken from you will be divided among you.
2 For 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.
3 Then the Loʀᴅ will go forth and
Afight against those nations, as
1when He fights on a day of battle.
4 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.
5 You 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 Loʀᴅ, my God, will come,
and all the holy ones with
1Him!
6 In that day there will be
Ano light; the
1luminaries will dwindle.
7 For it will be
Aa unique day which is
Bknown to the Loʀᴅ, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at
Cevening time there will be light.
8 And 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
9 And the Loʀᴅ will be
Aking over all the earth; in that day the Loʀᴅ will be
the only Bone, and His name
the only one.
10 All 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.
11 1People will live in it, and there will
Ano longer be a curse, for Jerusalem will
Bdwell in security.
12 Now this will be the plague with which the Loʀᴅ 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.
13 It will come about in that day that a great panic from the Loʀᴅ 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.
14 AJudah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the
Bwealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold and silver and garments in great abundance.
15 So 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.
16 Then 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 Loʀᴅ of hosts, and to celebrate the
BFeast of Booths.
17 And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the
AKing, the Loʀᴅ of hosts, there will be
Bno rain on them.
18 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 the Loʀᴅ smites the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
19 This will be the
1punishment of Egypt, and the
1punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
20 In that day there will
be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “
AHOLY TO THE LORD.” And the
Bcooking pots in the Loʀᴅ’s house will be like the bowls before the altar.
21 Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be
Aholy to the Loʀᴅ 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 the Loʀᴅ of hosts in that day.