Revive Us Again

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of ^(A)the Sons of Korah.

13 ^(A)“On that day there shall be ^(B)a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.

Idolatry Cut Off

² “And ^(C)on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, ^(D)I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that ^(E)they shall be remembered no more. And also ^(F)I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness. ³ And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ^(G)‘You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the Lord.’ And his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.

⁴ “On that day ^(H)every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive, ⁵ but he will say, ^(I)‘I am no prophet, I am a worker of the soil, for a man sold me in my youth.’^{[a] 6} And if one asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your back?’^[b] he will say, ‘The wounds I received in the house of my friends.’

The Shepherd Struck

The Coming Day of the Lord

14 Behold, ^(Q)a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. ² For ^(R)I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and ^(S)the city shall be taken ^(T)and the houses plundered ^(U)and the women raped. ^(V)Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. ^3 (W)Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. ^4 (X)On that day his feet shall stand ^(Y)on ^(Z)the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and ^(AA)the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by ^(AB)a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. ⁵ 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 ^(AC)the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.^[c]

^6 (AD)On that day ^(AE)there shall be ^(AF)no light, cold, or frost.^{[d] 7 (AG)}And there shall be a unique^[e] day, ^(AH)which is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but ^(AI)at evening time there shall be light.

^8 (AJ)On that day ^(AK)living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to ^(AL)the eastern sea^[f] and half of them to ^(AM)the western sea.^{[g] (AN)}It shall continue in summer as in winter.

⁹ And ^(AO)the Lord will be king over all the earth. ^(AP)On that day the Lord will be ^(AQ)one and ^(AR)his name one.

^10 (AS)The whole land shall be turned into a plain from ^(AT)Geba to ^(AU)Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But ^(AV)Jerusalem shall remain aloft ^(AW)on its site from ^(AX)the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to ^(AY)the Corner Gate, and from ^(AZ)the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses. ¹¹ And it shall be inhabited, for ^(BA)there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction.^{[h] (BB)}Jerusalem shall dwell in security.

¹² And this shall be ^(BC)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 ^(BD)on that day a great panic from the Lord shall fall on them, so that ^(BE)each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other. ¹⁴ Even ^(BF)Judah will fight at Jerusalem.^[i] And ^(BG)the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance. ¹⁵ And ^(BH)a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and whatever beasts may be in those camps.

¹⁶ Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem ^(BI)shall go up year after year to worship ^(BJ)the King, the Lord of hosts, and ^(BK)to keep ^(BL)the Feast of Booths. ¹⁷ And if ^(BM)any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship ^(BN)the King, the Lord of hosts, ^(BO)there will be no rain on them. ¹⁸ And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain;^[j] there shall be ^(BP)the plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up ^(BQ)to keep the Feast of Booths. ¹⁹ This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up ^(BR)to keep the Feast of Booths.

²⁰ And ^(BS)on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, ^(BT)“Holy to the Lord.” And the pots in the house of the Lord shall be as the bowls before the altar. ²¹ And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be ^(BU)holy to the Lord of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the meat of the sacrifice in them. And ^(BV)there shall no longer be ^(BW)a trader^[k] in the house of the Lord of hosts ^(BX)on that day.

⁴³ After ^(A)the two days he departed for Galilee. ⁴⁴ (For Jesus himself had testified ^(B)that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) ⁴⁵ So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, ^(C)having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For ^(D)they too had gone to the feast.

Jesus Heals an Official's Son

⁴⁶ So he came again to ^(E)Cana in Galilee, ^(F)where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. ⁴⁷ When this man heard that Jesus ^(G)had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. ⁴⁸ So Jesus said to him, ^(H)“Unless you^[a] see signs and wonders you will not believe.” ⁴⁹ The official said to him, “Sir, come down ^(I)before my child dies.” ⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. ⁵¹ As he was going down, his servants^[b] met him and told him that his son was recovering. ⁵² So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour^[c] the fever left him.” ⁵³ The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, ^(J)and all his household. ^54 (K)This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.

The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath

5 After this there was a ^(L)feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

² Now there is in Jerusalem by ^(M)the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic^[d] called Bethesda,^[e] which has five roofed colonnades. ³ In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and ^(N)paralyzed.^{[f] 5} One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” ⁷ The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” ⁸ Jesus said to him, ^(O)“Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” ^9 (P)And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.

^(Q)Now that day was the Sabbath. ¹⁰ So the Jews^[g] said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and ^(R)it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” ¹¹ But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’” ¹² They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” ¹³ Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for ^(S)Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. ¹⁴ Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! ^(T)Sin no more, ^(U)that nothing worse may happen to you.” ¹⁵ The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. ¹⁶ And this was why the Jews ^(V)were persecuting Jesus, ^(W)because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. ¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

Jesus Is Equal with God

¹⁸ This was why the Jews ^(X)were seeking all the more to kill him, ^(Y)because not only was he ^(Z)breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God ^(AA)his own Father, ^(AB)making himself equal with God.