Old Testament · Zechariah

Zechariah 14

The Destroyers of Jerusalem Destroyed

1Behold, a day comes for the LORD, and your spoil shall be divided in your midst. 2And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be captured, and the houses plundered, and the women^a ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

3And the LORD shall go forth and fight against those nations, as in the day of his fighting in the day of battle. 4And his feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives shall be split in its midst, toward the east and toward the west, a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall move toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal; and you shall flee as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. And the LORD my God shall come, all the holy ones with you.

6And it shall come to pass in that day, there shall not be light; the bright ones shall congeal. 7And there shall be one day, it is known to the LORD, not day and not night; and it shall come to pass that at the time of evening there shall be light.

8And it shall come to pass in that day, that living^b waters shall go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter shall it be. 9And the LORD shall be king over all the earth; in that day the LORD shall be one, and his name one.

10All the land shall be turned like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she shall be lifted up and dwell in her place, from the gate of Benjamin to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses. 11And they shall dwell in her, and there shall be no more ban of destruction; and Jerusalem shall dwell in security.

12And this shall be the plague with which the LORD shall strike all the peoples who waged war against Jerusalem: his flesh^c shall rot while he stands on his feet, and his eyes shall rot in their sockets, and his tongue shall rot in their mouth.

13And it shall come to pass in that day, a great panic from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold, each man^d on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor. 14And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered, gold and silver and garments in great abundance. 15And so shall be the plague of the horse, the mule, the camel, and the donkey, and all the beasts that shall be in those camps, like this plague.

All Nations Will Worship the King

(Leviticus 23:33–44; Nehemiah 8:13–18)

16And it shall come to pass, that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem shall go up year by year to bow down to the King, the LORD of hosts^e, and to celebrate the feast^f of Booths. 17And it shall come to pass, whoever does not go up from the families of the earth to Jerusalem to bow down to the King, the LORD of hosts, upon them there shall be no rain. 18And if the family of Egypt does not go up and does not come, then upon them there shall be no [rain]; there shall be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations that do not go up to celebrate the feast of Booths. 19This shall be the sin of Egypt, and the sin of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the feast of Booths.

20In that day there shall be upon the bells of the horse: HOLY TO the LORD; and the pots in the house of the LORD shall be like the basins before the altar. 21And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holy to the LORD of hosts; and all who sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil in them; and there shall no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts in that day.