Zechariah 14
1 Behold, the days of the Lord come,
and thy spoils shall be divided in thee.
2 And I will gather all the Gentiles
to Jerusalem to war, and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered,
and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity,
but the rest of my people shall not be utterly cut off from the city.
3 And the Lord shall go forth, and
fight with those Gentiles as when he fought in the day of war.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day
on the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount
of Olives shall cleave asunder, half of it toward the east and the west, a
very great division; and half the mountain shall lean to the north, and half
of it to the south. 5 And the valley
of my mountains shall be closed up, and the valley of the mountains shall be
joined on to Jasod, and shall be blocked up as it was blocked up in the days
of the earthquake, in the days of Ozias king of Juda; and the Lord my God
shall come, and all the saints with him.
6 And it shall come to pass in that
day that there shall be no light,
7 and there shall be for one day
aAlex. ψύχος, cold, probably the right reading.cold and frost, and that day shall be known to the
Lord, and it shall not
be day nor night: but towards evening it shall be
light.
8 And in that day living water shall
come forth out of Jerusalem; half of it toward the former sea, and half of it
toward the latter sea: and so shall it be in summer and spring.
9 And the Lord shall be king over all
the earth: in that day there shall be one Lord, and his name one,
10 compassing all the earth, and the
wilderness from Gabe unto Remmon south of Jerusalem. And Rama shall remain in
its place. From the gate of Benjamin to the place of the first gate, to the
gate of the corners, and to the tower of Anameel, as far as the king's
wine-presses, 11 they shall dwell
bAlex. in it.in the city; and there shall be no more any curse, and Jerusalem shall dwell
securely.
12 And this shall be the overthrow
with which the Lord will smite all the nations, as many as have fought against
Jerusalem; their flesh shall consume away while they are standing upon their
feet, and their eyes shall melt out of their holes, and their tongue shall
consume away in their mouth. 13 And
there shall be in that day a great
cAlex. astonishment.panic from the Lord upon them; and they shall lay hold every man of the hand
of his neighbour, and his hand shall be clasped with the hand of his
neighbour. 14 Juda also shall fight
in Jerusalem; and God shall gather the strength of
all the nations round about, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great
abundance. 15 And this shall be the
overthrow of the horses, and mules, and camels, and asses, and all the beasts
that are in those camps, according to this overthrow.
16 And it shall come to pass,
that whosoever shall be left of all the nations that
came against Jerusalem, shall even come up every year to worship the king, the
Lord Almighty, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
17 And it shall come to pass,
that whosoever of all the families of the earth shall
not come up to Jerusalem to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, even these
shall be added to the others. 18 And
if the family of Egypt shall not go up, nor come; then upon them shall be the
overthrow with which the Lord shall smite all the nations, whichever of them
shall not come up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
19 This shall be the sin of Egypt,
and the sin of all the nations, whosoever shall not come up to keep the feast
of tabernacles.
20 In that day there shall be upon
the bridle of every horse Holiness to the Lord Almighty; and the caldrons in
the house of the Lord shall be as bowls before the altar.
21 And every pot in Jerusalem and in
Juda shall be holy to the Lord Almighty: and all that sacrifice shall come and
take of them, and shall seethe meat in them: and in
that day there shall be no more the Chananite in the house of the Lord
Almighty.