Zechariah 14
1 Look: a day is coming for the LORD, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst.
2 I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for war. The city will be captured, the houses plundered, and the women raped. Half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
3 Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fights on the day of battle.
4 On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. The Mount of Olives will split in two from east to west, opening a very wide valley; half the mountain will move north, and the other half south.
5 You will flee through the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach as far as Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.
6 On that day there will be no light, no brilliance, no frost.
7 It will be one unique day, known only to the LORD. It will be neither day nor night, and at evening there will be light.
8 On that day living waters will flow out from Jerusalem: half of them toward the eastern sea and half toward the western sea. This will happen in summer and winter.
9 The LORD will be king over all the earth. On that day the LORD will be one, and his name one.
10 All the land will become like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem will rise and remain in its place, from the Gate of Benjamin to the site of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.
11 People will live there, and there will never again be destruction under the ban; Jerusalem will live in safety.
12 This will be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples who fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
13 On that day a great panic from the LORD will spread among them: each will seize the hand of his neighbor, and one will raise his hand against the other.
14 Judah, too, will fight in Jerusalem, and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered: an abundance of gold, silver, and clothing.
15 The same plague will strike the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey, and all the animals in those camps; it will be like this plague.
16 Everyone left from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Armies, and to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.
17 If any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Armies, no rain will fall on them.
18 If the family of Egypt does not go up and come, no rain will fall on them either; the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Shelters will come upon them.
19 This will be the punishment for Egypt and for all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.
20 On that day the words “Holy to the LORD” will be on the horses’ bells. The pots in the house of the LORD will be like the bowls before the altar.
21 Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the LORD of Armies. All who offer sacrifices will come, take pots from them, and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of Armies.
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