Add parallel Print Page Options

Destruição dos inimigos de Judá

12 Esta mensagem do SENHOR tem relação com Israel.

Mensagem do SENHOR, quem criou os céus,
    quem colocou a base da terra,
    e quem deu forma ao espírito humano:

—Vou converter Jerusalém numa taça que contém drogas. Todas as nações vizinhas irão beber dessa taça e, como consequência, não poderão pensar direito. Jerusalém será atacada, e Judá cairá numa armadilha. Mas, nesse dia, eu converterei Jerusalém numa pedra muito pesada: qualquer pessoa que tentar carregar aquela pedra ficará muito machucada. E todas as nações da terra se unirão para lutar contra ela. Porém, nesse dia, aterrorizarei todos os cavalos e farei com que os cavaleiros enlouqueçam. Deixarei cegos a todos os cavalos do inimigo e terei os meus olhos bem abertos para cuidar do povo de Judá. Os líderes de Judá falarão para si mesmos: “Os habitantes de Jerusalém são fortes graças ao SENHOR Todo-Poderoso, seu Deus. Nesse dia os líderes do exército serão como fogo queimando numa floresta ou num campo de pasto seco. Destruirão todos os povos vizinhos inimigos, aos do norte e aos do sul, e Jerusalém permanecerá segura em seu lugar”.

O SENHOR resgatará primeiro os exércitos de Judá para que a família de Davi e os habitantes de Jerusalém não se achem mais importantes que Judá. Mas o SENHOR será um escudo para os habitantes de Jerusalém. Mesmo o mais débil se tornará tão forte como Davi. Os da família de Davi serão como deuses (como o anjo do SENHOR aos olhos das nações).

—Nesse dia destruirei quase por completo qualquer nação que venha contra Jerusalém. 10 Encherei a família de Davi e os habitantes de Jerusalém com um espírito de bondade e compaixão. Eles me olharão, a quem eles atravessaram com uma lança, e se lamentarão como se estivessem sofrendo a morte de um filho único. Sentirão tanta amargura como quem sofre a morte do filho mais velho. 11 Haverá tanta tristeza e choro em Jerusalém como quando as pessoas choraram com amargura pela morte de Hadade-Rimom[a] no vale de Megido. 12 A terra de Judá chorará com amargura, cada família à parte. Os homens descendentes de Davi em um lado, e suas mulheres em outro. Os homens descendentes de Natã em um lado, e suas mulheres em outro. 13 Os homens descendentes de Levi em um lado, e suas mulheres em outro; os homens descendentes de Simeão em um lado, e suas mulheres em outro. 14 Todas as famílias que sobreviverem chorarão com amargura: os homens de cada família em um lado, e as mulheres em outro.

Footnotes

  1. 12.11 Hadade-Rimom Aqui pode se tratar do nome do deus sírio da fertilidade.

Jerusalem’s Enemies to Be Destroyed

12 A prophecy:(A) The word of the Lord concerning Israel.

The Lord, who stretches out the heavens,(B) who lays the foundation of the earth,(C) and who forms the human spirit within a person,(D) declares: “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup(E) that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling.(F) Judah(G) will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations(H) of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock(I) for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure(J) themselves. 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.(K) Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The people of Jerusalem are strong,(L) because the Lord Almighty is their God.’

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

“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.(P) On that day the Lord will shield(Q) those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest(R) among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God,(S) like the angel of the Lord going before(T) them. On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations(U) that attack Jerusalem.(V)

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](W) of grace and supplication.(X) They will look on[b] me, the one they have pierced,(Y) and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child,(Z) and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.(AA) 11 On that day the weeping(AB) in Jerusalem will be as great as the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.(AC) 12 The land will mourn,(AD) each clan by itself, with their wives by themselves: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives, 13 the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives, 14 and all the rest of the clans and their wives.(AE)

Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 12:10 Or the Spirit
  2. Zechariah 12:10 Or to

The Coming Deliverance of Judah

12 The [a]burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, (A)who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and (B)forms the spirit of man within him: “Behold, I will make Jerusalem (C)a cup of [b]drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. (D)And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem (E)a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it. In that day,” says the Lord, (F)“I will strike every horse with confusion, and its rider with madness; I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in the Lord of hosts, their God.’ In that day I will make the governors of Judah (G)like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place—Jerusalem.

“The Lord will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not become greater than that of Judah. In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the one who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of the Lord before them. It shall be in that day that I will seek to (H)destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Mourning for the Pierced One

10 (I)“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will (J)look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him (K)as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. 11 In that day there shall be a great (L)mourning in Jerusalem, (M)like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of [c]Megiddo. 12 (N)And the land shall 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 (O)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 Shimei by itself, and their wives by themselves; 14 all the families that remain, every family by itself, and their wives by themselves.

Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 12:1 oracle, prophecy
  2. Zechariah 12:2 Lit. reeling
  3. Zechariah 12:11 Heb. Megiddon