The Lord Comes to the Mount of Olives

14 “Look! A day is coming for the Lord, when your plunder will be divided among you. ² I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem, to lay siege against it. The city will be captured, the houses will be ransacked, the women raped, and half of the city will go into exile, but the remaining people will not be cut off from the city. ³ Then the Lord will go out to battle against those nations, waging war as in a day of battle. ⁴ His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. Then the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming^[a] a very large valley, with half of the mountain moving toward the north and half toward the south. ⁵ You will run away through my mountain valley, because the valley of the mountains will extend as far as Azal. You will flee, as you fled from the earthquake during the reign of King Uzziah of Judah. And so the Lord my God will come, and all his holy ones will be accompanying you.”

A Unique Day

⁶ “At that time,^[b] the daylight will be neither bright nor overcast. ⁷ It will be a unique day, known only to the Lord—neither daytime nor nighttime—and it will come about at twilight there will be light!