Zechariah 12:10-14

Expanded Bible

Crying for the One They Pierced

¹⁰ “I will pour out on ·David’s family [^Lthe house of David] and the ·people in [inhabitants of] Jerusalem a spirit of ·kindness [grace] and ·mercy [prayer; supplication]. They will look at me, the one they have ·stabbed [pierced], and they will ·cry [^Lmourn/lament for him] like someone ·crying [mourning; lamenting] over the death of an only ·child [son]. They will ·be as sad [grieve bitterly] as someone who has lost a firstborn son. ¹¹ ·At that time [^LOn that day] there will be much crying in Jerusalem, like the crying for Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo [^Ceither where Judah mourned the death of king Josiah (2 Chr. 35:25), or ritualistic mourning associated with the Canaanite storm god (Ezek. 8:14; 2 Kin. 5:18)]. ¹² The land will ·cry [mourn], each ·family [clan] by itself: the ·family [clan] of [^Lthe house of] David by itself and their wives by themselves, the ·family [clan] of Nathan [2 Sam. 5:14] by itself and their wives by themselves, ¹³ the ·family [clan] of Levi [Num. 3:17–18, 21] by itself and their wives by themselves, the ·family [clan] of Shimei [^Ca clan of Levites; Ex. 6:16–17] by itself and their wives by themselves, ¹⁴ and all the rest of the ·families [clans] by themselves and their wives by themselves.