Zekharyah, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} "In that day there will be a spring opened to the house of
David and to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, for sin and for
uncleanness. {13:2} It will come to pass in that day, says the LORD of
Hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and
they will no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets
and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land. {13:3} It will
happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his
mother who bore him will tell him, 'You must die, because you speak
lies in the name of the LORD;' and his father and his mother who bore
him will stab him when he prophesies. {13:4} It will happen in that
day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he
prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive: {13:5}
but he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I
have been made a bondservant from my youth.' {13:6} One will say to
him, 'What are these wounds between your arms?' Then he will answer,
'Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.'
{13:7} "Awake, sword, against my shepherd,
And against the man who is close to me," says the LORD of Hosts.
Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
And I will turn my hand against the little ones.
{13:8} It shall happen that in all the land," says the LORD,
Two parts in it will be cut off and die;
But the third will be left in it.
{13:9} I will bring the third part into the fire,
And will refine them as silver is refined,
And will test them like gold is tested.
They will call on my name, and I will hear them.
I will say, 'It is my people;'
And they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"
{14:1} Behold, a day of the LORD comes, when your spoil will be
divided in your midst. {14:2} For I will gather all nations against
Yerushalayim to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled,
and the women ravished. half of the city will go out into captivity,
and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. {14:3}
Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as when he
fought in the day of battle. {14:4} His feet will stand in that day on
the Mount of Olives, which is before Yerushalayim on the east; and the
Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very
great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and
half of it toward the south. {14:5} You shall flee by the valley of my
mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Atzel; yes,
you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the
days of `Uzziyah king of Yehudah. The LORD my God will come, and all
the holy ones with you. {14:6} It will happen in that day, that there
will not be light, cold, or frost. {14:7} It will be a unique day
which is known to the LORD; not day, and not night; but it will come
to pass, that at evening time there will be light.
{14:8} It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out
from Yerushalayim; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of
them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.
{14:9} The LORD will be King over all the [1>]eretz[<1]. In that day
the LORD will be one, and his name one. {14:10} All the land will be
made like the `Aravah, from Geva to Rimmon south of Yerushalayim; and
she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Binyamin's
gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the
tower of Hanan'el to the king's wine-presses. {14:11} Men will dwell
therein, and there will be no more curse; but Yerushalayim will dwell
safely. {14:12} This will be the plague with which the LORD will
strike all the peoples who have warred against Yerushalayim: their
flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes
will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away
in their mouth. {14:13} It will happen in that day, that a great panic
from the LORD will be among them; and they will lay hold everyone on
the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand
of his neighbor. {14:14} Yehudah also will fight at Yerushalayim; and
the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together:
gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.
{14:15} So will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the
camel, and of the donkey, and of all the animals that will be in those
camps, as that plague. {14:16} It will happen that everyone who is
left of all the nations that came against Yerushalayim will go up from
year to year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to keep the
feast of booths. {14:17} It will be, that whoever of all the families
of the [2>]eretz[<2] doesn't go up to Yerushalayim to worship the
King, the LORD of Hosts, on them there will be no rain. {14:18} If the
family of Mitzrayim doesn't go up, and doesn't come, neither will it
rain on them. This will be the plague with which the LORD will strike
the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of booths. {14:19} This
will be the punishment of Mitzrayim, and the punishment of all the
nations that don't go up to keep the feast of booths. {14:20} In that
day there will be on the bells of the horses, "HOLY TO THE LORD;" and
the pots in the LORD's house will be like the bowls before the altar.
{14:21} Yes, every pot in Yerushalayim and in Yehudah will be holy to
the LORD of Hosts; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of
them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Kana`ani
in the house of the LORD of Hosts.
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Footnotes:
[1] {14:9} earth
[2] {14:17} earth
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