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.^(A)

³ On that day, when all the nations^(A) of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock^(B) for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure^(C) themselves.

²⁸ The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind.

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

³⁰ In the past God overlooked^(A) such ignorance,^(B) but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.^(C)

¹⁵ A similar plague^(A) will strike the horses and mules, the camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.

¹¹ On that day the weeping^(A) in Jerusalem will be as great as the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.^(B)

⁸ On that day the Lord will shield^(A) those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest^(B) among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God,^(C) like the angel of the Lord going before^(D) them. ⁹ On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations^(E) that attack Jerusalem.^(F)