The Coming Day of the Lord

14 Behold, (A)a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. For (B)I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and (C)the city shall be taken (D)and the houses plundered (E)and the women raped. (F)Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. (G)Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. (H)On that day his feet shall stand (I)on (J)the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and (K)the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by (L)a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from (M)the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.[a]

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  1. Zechariah 14:5 Other Hebrew manuscripts you

10 (A)The whole land shall be turned into a plain from (B)Geba to (C)Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But (D)Jerusalem shall remain aloft (E)on its site from (F)the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to (G)the Corner Gate, and from (H)the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses. 11 And it shall be inhabited, for (I)there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction.[a] (J)Jerusalem shall dwell in security.

12 And this shall be (K)the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

13 And (L)on that day a great panic from the Lord shall fall on them, so that (M)each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other. 14 Even (N)Judah will fight at Jerusalem.[b] And (O)the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance. 15 And (P)a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and whatever beasts may be in those camps.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 14:11 The Hebrew term rendered decree of utter destruction refers to things devoted (or set apart) to the Lord (or by the Lord) for destruction
  2. Zechariah 14:14 Or against Jerusalem

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