Zechariah 14

God Will Battle Jerusalem’s Foes

1Behold, a 1day is coming for the Lord when 2the spoil taken from you will be divided among you. 2For I will 3gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the 4houses plundered, the women ravished and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. 3Then the Lord will go forth and 5fight against those nations, as 6when He fights on a day of battle. 4In that day His feet will 7stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be 8split 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. 5You will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; yes, you will flee just as you fled before the 9earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. 10Then the Lord, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with 11Him!

6In that day there will be 12no light; the 13luminaries will dwindle. 7For it will be 14a unique day which is 15known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at 16evening time there will be light.

8And in that day 17living 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.

God Will Be King over All

9And the Lord will be 18king over all the earth; in that day the Lord will be the only 19one, and His name the only one.

10All the land will be changed into a plain from 20Geba to 21Rimmon south of Jerusalem; but 22Jerusalem will 23rise and 24remain on its site from 25Benjamin’s Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the 26Corner Gate, and from the 27Tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses. 1128People will live in it, and there will 29no longer be a curse, for Jerusalem will 30dwell in security.

12Now this will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will 31rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth. 13It will come about in that day that a great panic from the Lord will 32fall on them; and they will 33seize one another’s hand, and the hand of one will 34be lifted against the hand of another. 1435Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the 36wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold and silver and garments in great abundance. 15So also like this 37plague will be the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey and all the cattle that will be in those camps.

16Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will 38go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to celebrate the 39Feast of Booths. 17And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the 40King, the Lord of hosts, there will be 41no rain on them. 18If the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the 42plague with which the Lord smites the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. 19This will be the 43punishment of Egypt, and the 44punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

20In that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “45HOLY TO THE LORD.” And the 46cooking pots in the Lord’s house will be like the bowls before the altar. 21Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be 47holy to the Lord of hosts; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a 4849Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts in that day.