² “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup^(A) that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling.^(B) Judah^(C) will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. ³ On that day, when all the nations^(D) of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock^(E) for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure^(F) themselves. ⁴ On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness,” declares the Lord. “I will keep a watchful eye over Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations.^{(G) 5} Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The people of Jerusalem are strong,^(H) because the Lord Almighty is their God.’

⁶ “On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot^(I) in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume^(J) all the surrounding peoples right and left, but Jerusalem will remain intact^(K) in her place.

⁷ “The Lord will save the dwellings of Judah first, so that the honor of the house of David and of Jerusalem’s inhabitants may not be greater than that of Judah.^{(L) 8} On that day the Lord will shield^(M) those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest^(N) among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God,^(O) like the angel of the Lord going before^(P) them. ⁹ On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations^(Q) that attack Jerusalem.^(R)

Mourning for the One They Pierced

¹⁰ “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit^[a](S) of grace and supplication.^(T) They will look on^[b] me, the one they have pierced,^(U) and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child,^(V) and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.^{(W) 11} On that day the weeping^(X) in Jerusalem will be as great as the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.^(Y)