Zechariah 14:1-11

Holman Christian Standard Bible

The Lord’s Triumph and Reign

14 A day of the Lord is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence. ² I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle.^(A) The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.

³ Then the Lord will go out to fight against those nations as He fights on a day of battle.^{(B) 4} On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,^(C) which faces Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in half from east to west, forming a huge valley, so that half the mountain will move to the north and half to the south. ⁵ You will flee by My mountain valley,^[a] for the valley of the mountains will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled^[b] from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah.^(D) Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Him.^[c](E)

⁶ On that day there will be no light; the sunlight and moonlight^[d] will diminish.^{[e](F) 7} It will be a day known only to Yahweh,^(G) without day or night, but there will be light at evening.

⁸ On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem,^(H) half of it toward the eastern sea^[f] and the other half toward the western sea,^[g] in summer and winter alike. ⁹ On that day Yahweh will become King over all the earth^(I)—Yahweh alone, and His name alone.^{(J) 10} All the land from Geba^(K) to Rimmon^(L) south of Jerusalem will be changed into a plain. But Jerusalem will be raised up and will remain^[h] on its site from the Benjamin Gate^(M) to the place of the First Gate,^[i] to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.^{(N) 11} People will live there, and never again will there be a curse of complete destruction. So Jerusalem will dwell in security.