Zechariah 12
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- 1The burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel, says the LORD, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.
- 2Look, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling for all the people around it when they lay siege to both Judah and Jerusalem.
- 3On that day, I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people. All who burden themselves with it will be cut in pieces, even if all the people of the earth gather against it.
- 4On that day," declares the LORD, "I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness. I will open my eyes upon the house of Judah, and I will strike every horse of the people with blindness.
- 5Then the leaders of Judah will say to themselves, 'The people of Jerusalem are strong because the LORD of hosts is their God.'
- 6On that day, I will make the governors of Judah like a firepot among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left, and Jerusalem will be inhabited again in its own place, in Jerusalem.
- 7The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not exalt themselves against Judah.
- 8On that day, the LORD will defend the people of Jerusalem. The weakest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD going before them.
- 9And it shall happen on that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
- 10I will pour out the spirit of grace and supplications on the house of David and the people of Jerusalem. They will look on me, whom they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only son, and they will be in bitterness for him as one is in bitterness for a firstborn.
- 11On that day, there will be great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
- 12The whole land will mourn, each family by itself — the family of David's house by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Nathan's house by themselves, and their wives by themselves;
- 13the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
- 14all the remaining families, each family by itself, and their wives by themselves.