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like a flame that sets a woodpile ablaze or like
a burning torch among sheaves of grain. They
will burn up all the neighboring nations right
and left, while the people living in Jerusalem
remain secure.
7 “The Lord will give victory to the rest of Judah first, before Jerusalem, so that the people
of Jerusalem and the royal line of David will
not have greater honor than the rest of Judah.
8 On that day the Lord will defend the people
of Jerusalem; the weakest among them will
be as mighty as King David! And the royal descendants will be like God, like the angel of the
Lord who goes before them! 9 For on that day I
will begin to destroy all the nations that come
against Jerusalem.
10 “Then I will pour out a spirit* of grace and
prayer on the family of David and on the people
of Jerusalem. They will look on me whom they
have pierced and mourn for him as for an only
son. They will grieve bitterly for him as for a
firstborn son who has died. 11 The sorrow and
mourning in Jerusalem on that day will be like
the great mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the
valley of Megiddo.
12 “All Israel will mourn, each clan by itself,
and with the husbands separate from their
wives. The clan of David will mourn alone, as
will the clan of Nathan, 13 the clan of Levi, and
the clan of Shimei. 14 Each of the surviving clans
from Judah will mourn separately, and with the
husbands separate from their wives.
A Fountain of Cleansing
“On that day a fountain will be opened
for the dynasty of David and for the
people of Jerusalem, a fountain to cleanse them
from all their sins and impurity.
2 “And on that day,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “I will erase idol worship throughout the land, so that even the names of the
idols will be forgotten. I will remove from the
land both the false prophets and the spirit of
impurity that came with them. 3 If anyone continues to prophesy, his own father and mother
will tell him, ‘You must die, for you have prophesied lies in the name of the Lord.’ And as he
prophesies, his own father and mother will
stab him.
4 “On that day people will be ashamed to claim
the prophetic gift. No one will pretend to be a
prophet by wearing prophet’s clothes. 5 He will
say, ‘I’m no prophet; I’m a farmer. I began working for a farmer as a boy.’ 6 And if someone asks,
‘Then what about those wounds on your chest?*’
he will say, ‘I was wounded at my friends’ house!’
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12:10 Or the Spirit. 13:6 Hebrew wounds between your hands?
14:5a The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain. 14:5b As
in Greek version; Hebrew reads with you. 14:6 Hebrew the
precious ones shall diminish; or the precious ones and frost.
The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain. 14:8 Hebrew half
toward the eastern sea and half toward the western sea.
The Scattering of the Sheep
7 “Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,
the man who is my partner,”
says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
“Strike down the shepherd,
and the sheep will be scattered,
and I will turn against the lambs.
8 Two-thirds of the people in the land
will be cut off and die,” says the Lord.
“But one-third will be left in the land.
9 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.’”
The LORD Will Rule the Earth
Watch, for the day of the Lord is coming when your possessions will be plundered right in front of you! 2 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.
3 Then the Lord will go out to fight against
those nations, as he has fought in times past.
4 On that day his feet will stand on the Mount
of Olives, east of Jerusalem. And the Mount of
Olives will split apart, making a wide valley
running from east to west. Half the mountain
will move toward the north and half toward the
south. 5 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.*
6 On that day the sources of light will no
longer shine,* 7 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.
8 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.
9 And the Lord will be king over all the earth.
On that day there will be one Lord—his name
alone will be worshiped.
10 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.
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