Zechariah’s Apocalyptic Vision

14 Look! A day is coming for Yahweh, when your plunder will be divided in your midst. ² I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, and they will loot the houses, and the women will be raped; half of the city will go into exile, but the remainder of the people will not be cut off from the city. ³ Then Yahweh will go forth and fight against those nations, like when he fights^[a] on a day of battle. ⁴ On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,^[b] which faces Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives^[c] will be split in half,^[d] from east to west, by a very great valley; and half of the mountain will withdraw toward the north, and the other half toward the south. ⁵ And you will flee by the valley of my mountains, because the valley of the mountains will reach to Azal, and you will flee like you fled from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah of Judah. And Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.^[e]

⁶ And then^[f] on that day there will not be light,^[g] the precious things will congeal.^{[h] 7} There shall be continuous day—it is known to Yahweh—not day and not night; and at evening time there will be light.