Zechariah 14 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

God Will Battle Jerusalem's Foes

(cf. Eze 38; 39; Mar 13; Rev 20—22 )

Zec 14:1Behold, a day of the LORD is coming, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in the midst of you.

Zec 14:2For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Zec 14:3

Zec 14:3Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.

Zec 14:4

Zec 14:4On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives which lies before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley; so that one half of the Mount shall withdraw northward, and the other half southward.

Zec 14:5

Zec 14:5And the valley of my mountains shall be stopped up, for the valley of the mountains shall touch the side of it; and you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzzi'ah king of Judah. Then the LORD your God will come, and all the holy ones with him.

Zec 14:6

Zec 14:6On that day there shall be neither cold nor frost.

Zec 14:7

Zec 14:7And there shall be continuous day (it is known to the LORD), not day and not night, for at evening time there shall be light.

Zec 14:8

Zec 14:8On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea; it shall continue in summer as in winter.

God Will Be King over All

Zec 14:9

Zec 14:9And the LORD will become king over all the earth; on that day the LORD will be one and his name one.

Zec 14:10

Zec 14:10The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft upon its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Han'anel to the king's wine presses.

Zec 14:11

Zec 14:11And it shall be inhabited, for there shall be no more curse; Jerusalem shall dwell in security.

Zec 14:12

Zec 14:12And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will smite all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh shall rot while they are still on their feet, their eyes shall rot in their sockets, and their tongues shall rot in their mouths.

Zec 14:13

Zec 14:13And on that day a great panic from the LORD shall fall on them, so that each will lay hold on the hand of his fellow, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other;

Zec 14:14

Zec 14:14even Judah will fight against Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the nations round about shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance.

Zec 14:15

Zec 14:15And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the asses, and whatever beasts may be in those camps.

Zec 14:16

Zec 14:16Then every one that survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of booths.

Zec 14:17

Zec 14:17And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain upon them.

Zec 14:18

Zec 14:18And if the family of Egypt do not go up and present themselves, then upon them shall come the plague with which the LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the feast of booths.

Zec 14:19

Zec 14:19This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the feast of booths.

Zec 14:20

Zec 14:20And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, "Holy to the LORD." And the pots in the house of the LORD shall be as the bowls before the altar;

Zec 14:21

Zec 14:21and every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be sacred to the LORD of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the flesh of the sacrifice in them. And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the LORD of hosts on that day.

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Zechariah 14 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

God Will Battle Jerusalem's Foes

God Will Be King over All

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