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11 And Jerusalem will be filled, safe at last, never
again to be cursed and destroyed.
— promises —
from God
And the Lord will be
king over all the earth.
On that day there will
be one Lord—his name
alone will be worshiped.
Z E C H A R I A H 14:9
12 And the Lord will send a plague on all
the nations that fought against Jerusalem.
Their people will become like walking corpses,
their flesh rotting away. Their eyes will rot
in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in
their mouths. 13 On that day they will be terrified, stricken by the Lord with great panic.
They will fight their neighbors hand to hand.
14 Judah, too, will be fighting at Jerusalem. The
wealth of all the neighboring nations will be
captured—great quantities of gold and silver
and fine clothing. 15 This same plague will strike
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the horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the
other animals in the enemy camps.
16 In the end, the enemies of Jerusalem who
survive the plague will go up to Jerusalem each
year to worship the King, the Lord of Heaven’s
Armies, and to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.
17 Any nation in the world that refuses to come
to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord
of Heaven’s Armies, will have no rain. 18 If the
people of Egypt refuse to attend the festival, the
Lord will punish* them with the same plague
that he sends on the other nations who refuse
to go. 19 Egypt and the other nations will all be
punished if they don’t go to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.
20 On that day even the harness bells of the
horses will be inscribed with these words:
Holy to the Lord. And the cooking pots in the
Temple of the Lord will be as sacred as the basins used beside the altar. 21 In fact, every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to
the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. All who come to
worship will be free to use any of these pots
to boil their sacrifices. And on that day there
will no longer be traders* in the Temple of the
Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
14:18 As in some Hebrew manuscripts and Greek and Syriac
versions; Masoretic Text reads will not punish. 14:21 Hebrew
Canaanites.