The Nations Will Be Judged

⁴ Moreover, what are you to Me, ^(J)Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of ^(K)Philistia? Are you repaying Me with retribution? But if you are showing Me retribution, swiftly and speedily I will ^(L)return your retribution on your head! ⁵ Since you have ^(M)taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious ^[d]treasures to your temples, ⁶ and sold the ^(N)sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the ^[e]Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory, ⁷ behold, I am going to ^(O)stir them up from the place where you have sold them, and return your retribution on your head. ⁸ I will also ^(P)sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the ^(Q)Sabeans, to a distant nation,” for the Lord has spoken.

² “Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a ^(A)cup ^[a]that causes staggering to all the peoples around; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against ^(B)Judah. ³ It will come about on that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy ^(C)stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will ^(D)injure themselves severely. And all the ^(E)nations of the earth will be gathered against it. ⁴ On that day,” declares the Lord, “I will strike every horse with confusion and its rider with insanity. But I will ^[b]watch over the house of Judah, while I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. ⁵ Then the ^[c]clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are a ^[d]strong support for us through the Lord of armies, their God.’

⁶ “On that day I will make the ^[e]clans of Judah like a ^(F)firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves, so they will consume on the right and on the left all the surrounding peoples, while ^[f]the ^(G)inhabitants of Jerusalem again live on their own sites in Jerusalem. ⁷ The Lord also will ^(H)save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of ^(I)David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be greater than Judah. ⁸ On that day the Lord will ^(J)protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who ^[g](K)is feeble among them on that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like ^(L)God, like the ^(M)angel of the Lord before them. ⁹ And on that day I will ^(N)seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

¹⁰ “And I will ^(O)pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem ^[h]the Spirit of grace and of pleading, so that they will look at Me whom they ^(P)pierced; and they will mourn for Him, like one ^(Q)mourning for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn. ¹¹ On that day the ^(R)mourning in Jerusalem will be great, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the ^[i]plain of ^[j]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 ^(S)fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for ^(T)sin and for ^(U)defilement.

² “And it will come about on that day,” declares the Lord of armies, “that I will ^(V)eliminate the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also remove the ^(W)prophets and the ^(X)unclean spirit from the land. ³ And if anyone still ^(Y)prophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, ‘You shall ^(Z)not live, because you have spoken ^(AA)falsely in the name of the Lord’; and his ^(AB)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 ^(AC)ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a ^(AD)hairy robe in order to deceive; ⁵ but he will say, ‘I am ^(AE)not a prophet; I am a cultivator of the ground, because a man ^[k]sold me as a slave in my youth.’ ⁶ And someone will say to him, ‘What are these wounds ^(AF)between your ^[l]arms?’ Then he will say, ‘Those with which I was wounded at the house of ^[m]my friends.’

God Will Battle Jerusalem’s Enemies

14 Behold, a ^(AQ)day is coming for the Lord when ^(AR)the spoils taken from you will be divided among you. ² For I will ^(AS)gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be taken, the ^(AT)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 ^(AU)fight against those nations, as ^[o]when He fights on a day of battle. ⁴ On that day His feet will ^(AV)stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be ^(AW)split ^[p]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 ^(AX)earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. ^(AY)Then the Lord, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with ^[q]Him!

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

⁸ And on that day ^(BD)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 ^(BE)King over all the earth; on that day the Lord will be the only ^(BF)one, and His name the only one.

¹⁰ All the land will change into a plain from ^(BG)Geba to ^(BH)Rimmon south of Jerusalem; but ^[s]Jerusalem will ^(BI)rise and ^(BJ)remain on its site from ^(BK)Benjamin’s Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the ^(BL)Corner Gate, and from the ^(BM)Tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses. ¹¹ People will live in it, and there will ^(BN)no longer be a curse, for Jerusalem will ^(BO)live in security.

¹² Now this will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will ^(BP)rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth. ¹³ And it will come about on that day that a great panic from the Lord will ^[t]fall on them; and they will ^(BQ)seize one another’s hand, and the hand of one will ^[u]be raised against the hand of another. ^14 (BR)Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the ^(BS)wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance. ¹⁵ And just like this ^(BT)plague, there will be a 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 came against Jerusalem will ^(BU)go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of armies, and to celebrate the ^(BV)Feast of Booths. ¹⁷ And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the ^(BW)King, the Lord of armies, there will be ^(BX)no rain on them. ¹⁸ And if the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the ^(BY)plague with which the Lord strikes the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. ¹⁹ This will be the ^[v]punishment of Egypt, and the ^[w]punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

²⁰ On that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “^(BZ)Holy to the Lord.” And the ^(CA)cooking pots in the Lord’s house will be like the bowls before the altar. ²¹ Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be ^(CB)holy to the Lord of armies; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a ^[x](CC)Canaanite in the house of the Lord of armies on that day.