Zechariah 12:9-14

New American Standard Bible

⁹ And on that day I will ^(A)seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

¹⁰ “And I will ^(B)pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem ^[a]the Spirit of grace and of pleading, so that they will look at Me whom they ^(C)pierced; and they will mourn for Him, like one ^(D)mourning for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn. ¹¹ On that day the ^(E)mourning in Jerusalem will be great, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the ^[b]plain of ^[c]Megiddo. ¹² The land will mourn, every family by itself; the family of the house of David by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves; ¹³ the family of the house of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself and their wives by themselves; ¹⁴ all the families that are left, every family by itself, and their wives by themselves.

False Prophets Ashamed

13 “On that day a ^(F)fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for ^(G)sin and for ^(H)defilement.

² “And it will come about on that day,” declares the Lord of armies, “that I will ^(I)eliminate the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also remove the ^(J)prophets and the ^(K)unclean spirit from the land. ³ And if anyone still ^(L)prophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, ‘You shall ^(M)not live, because you have spoken ^(N)falsely in the name of the Lord’; and his ^(O)father and mother who gave birth to him shall pierce him through when he prophesies. ⁴ Also it will come about on that day that the prophets will each be ^(P)ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a ^(Q)hairy robe in order to deceive; ⁵ but he will say, ‘I am ^(R)not a prophet; I am a cultivator of the ground, because a man ^[d]sold me as a slave in my youth.’ ⁶ And someone will say to him, ‘What are these wounds ^(S)between your ^[e]arms?’ Then he will say, ‘Those with which I was wounded at the house of ^[f]my friends.’

God Will Battle Jerusalem’s Enemies

14 Behold, a ^(AD)day is coming for the Lord when ^(AE)the spoils taken from you will be divided among you. ² For I will ^(AF)gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be taken, the ^(AG)houses plundered, the women raped, and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be eliminated from the city. ³ Then the Lord will go forth and ^(AH)fight against those nations, as ^[h]when He fights on a day of battle. ⁴ On that day His feet will ^(AI)stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be ^(AJ)split ^[i]in its middle from east to west forming a very large valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and the other half toward the south. ⁵ And 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 from the ^(AK)earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. ^(AL)Then the Lord, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with ^[j]Him!

⁶ On that day there will be ^(AM)no light; the ^[k]luminaries will die out. ⁷ For it will be ^(AN)a unique day which is ^(AO)known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at the ^(AP)time of evening there will be light.

⁸ And on that day ^(AQ)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.

God Will Be King over All

⁹ And the Lord will be ^(AR)King over all the earth; on that day the Lord will be the only ^(AS)one, and His name the only one.