Zechariah 14

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Yahweh Will Battle the Nations

14 Behold, a ^(A)day is coming for Yahweh when ^(B)the spoil taken from you will be divided among you. ² Indeed, I will ^(C)gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the ^(D)houses plundered, the women ravished, and half of the city will go forth in exile, but those left of the people will not be cut off from the city. ³ Then Yahweh will go forth and ^(E)fight against those nations, as the day when He fights on a day of battle. ⁴ And in that day His feet will ^(F)stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be ^(G)split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south. ⁵ And you will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; indeed, you will flee just as you fled before the ^(H)earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. ^(I)Then Yahweh, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with ^[a]Him!

⁶ And it will be in that day, that there will be ^(J)no light; the ^[b]luminaries will dwindle. ⁷ And it will be ^(K)a ^[c]unique day which is ^(L)known to Yahweh, neither day nor night, but it will be that at ^(M)evening time there will be light.

⁸ And it will be in that day, ^(N)that living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea; it will be in summer as well as in winter.

Yahweh Will Be King over All

⁹ And Yahweh will be ^(O)king over all the earth; in that day Yahweh will be the only ^(P)one, and His name one.

¹⁰ All the land will be changed into a plain from ^(Q)Geba to ^(R)Rimmon south of Jerusalem; but ^[d]Jerusalem will ^(S)rise and ^(T)inhabit its site from ^(U)Benjamin’s Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the ^(V)Corner Gate, and from the ^(W)Tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses. ¹¹ And ^[e]people will inhabit it, and there will ^(X)no longer be anything devoted to destruction, for Jerusalem will ^(Y)be inhabited in security.

¹² Now this will be the plague with which Yahweh will plague all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will ^(Z)rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth. ¹³ And it will be in that day, that abundant confusion from Yahweh will ^[f]fall on them; and they will ^(AA)take hold of one another’s hand, and the hand of one will ^[g]go up against the hand of another. ^14 (AB)And Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the ^(AC)wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold and silver and garments in great abundance. ¹⁵ And in the same way, ^(AD)the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey, and all the cattle that will be in those camps will be like this plague.

¹⁶ Then it will be that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will ^(AE)go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of hosts, and to celebrate the ^(AF)Feast of Booths. ¹⁷ And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the ^(AG)King, Yahweh of hosts, there will be ^(AH)no rain on them. ¹⁸ And if the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the ^(AI)plague with which Yahweh plagues the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. ¹⁹ This will be the ^[h]punishment of Egypt, and the ^[i]punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

²⁰ In that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “^(AJ)Holy to Yahweh.” And the ^(AK)pots in the house of Yahweh will be like the bowls before the altar. ²¹ And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be ^(AL)holy to Yahweh of hosts; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a ^[j](AM)Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of hosts in that day.