Zechariah
Chapter Twelve
1 ¶ The burden of
the word of the LORD against Israel. Thus says the LORD, who stretches out the
heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within
him:
2 "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding
peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem.
3 "And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy
stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces,
though all nations of the earth are gathered against it.
4 "In that day," says the LORD, "I will strike every horse with
confusion, and its rider with madness; I will open My eyes on the house of Judah,
and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
5 "And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, 'The inhabitants
of Jerusalem are my strength in the LORD of hosts, their God.'
6 "In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a firepan in the
woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding
peoples on the right hand and on the left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited
again in her own place-Jerusalem.
7 "The 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 shall not become
greater than that of Judah.
8 "In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the one
who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David
shall be like God, like the Angel of the LORD before them.
9 ¶ "It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations
that come against Jerusalem.
10 "And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem
the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced.
Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for
Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
11 "In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the
mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
12 "And the land shall mourn, every family by itself: the family of the
house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house
of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;
13 "the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves;
the family of Shimei by itself, and their wives by themselves;
14 "all the families that remain, every family by itself, and their wives
by themselves.
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