17 And if (A)any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship (B)the King, the Lord of hosts, (C)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;[a] there shall be (D)the plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up (E)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 (F)to keep the Feast of Booths.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 14:18 Hebrew lacks rain

17 But if any of the nations anywhere on earth refuse to go up to Jerusalem[a] to worship the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, they will get no rain. 18 If the Egyptians will not do so, they will get no rain—instead there will be the kind of plague that the Lord inflicts on any nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Shelters. 19 This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Shelters.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 14:17 sn The reference to any…who refuse to go up to Jerusalem makes clear the fact that the nations are by no means “converted” to the Lord but are under his compulsory domination.