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PROPHETS
13:9–14:14
I will bring that group through the fire
and make them pure.
I will refine them like silver
and purify them like gold.
They will call on my name,
and I will answer them.
I will say, ‘These are my people,’
and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’”
Watch, for the day of the Lord is coming when your possessions will be
plundered right in front of you! I will gather all the nations to fight against
Jerusalem. The city will be taken, the houses looted, and the women raped.
Half the population will be taken into captivity, and the rest will be left
among the ruins of the city.
Then the Lord will go out to fight against those nations, as he has
fought in times past. On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of
Olives, east of Jerusalem. And the Mount of Olives will split apart, mak
ing a wide v alley running from east to west. Half the mountain will move
toward the north and half toward the south. You will flee through this
valley, for it will reach across to Azal. Yes, you will flee as you did from the
earthquake in the days of King Uzziah of Judah. Then the Lord my God
will come, and all his holy ones with him.
On that day the sources of light will no longer shine, yet there will be
continuous day! Only the Lord knows how this could happen. There will
be no normal day and night, for at evening time it will still be light.
On that day life-giving waters will flow out from Jerusalem, half toward
the Dead Sea and half toward the Mediterranean, flowing continuously in
both summer and winter.
And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day there will be
one Lord—his name alone will be worshiped.
All the land from Geba, north of Judah, to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem,
will become one vast plain. But Jerusalem will be raised up in its original
place and will be inhabited all the way from the Benjamin Gate over to
the site of the old gate, then to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of
Hananel to the king’s winepresses. And Jerusalem will be filled, safe at last,
never again to be cursed and destroyed.
And the Lord will send a plague on all the nations that fought against
Jerusalem. Their people will become like walking corpses, their flesh rot
ting away. Their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in
their mouths. On that day they will be terrified, stricken by the Lord with
great panic. They will fight their neighbors hand to hand. Judah, too, will
be fighting at Jerusalem. The wealth of all the neighboring nations will be
