Behold, a aday is coming for Yahweh when bthe spoil taken from you will be divided among you.Is 13:6, 9; Joel 2:1; Mal 4:1Zech 14:14 2 Indeed, I will agather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the bhouses plundered, the women ravished, and half of the city will go forth in exile, but those left of the people will not be cut off from the city.Zech 12:2, 3Is 13:16 3 Then Yahweh will go forth and afight against those nations, as the day when He fights on a day of battle.Zech 9:14, 15 4 And in that day His feet will astand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be bsplit 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.Ezek 11:23Is 64:1, 2; Ezek 47:1-10; Mic 1:3, 4; Hab 3:6; Zech 4:7; 14:8 5 And you will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; indeed, you will flee just as you fled before the aearthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. bThen Yahweh, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with 1Him!As in the ancient versions; Heb YouIs 29:6; Amos 1:1Ps 96:13; Is 66:15, 16; Matt 16:27; 25:31
6 And it will be in that day, that there will be ano light; the 1luminaries will dwindle.Lit glorious ones will congealIs 13:10; Jer 4:23; Ezek 32:7, 8; Joel 2:30, 31; Acts 2:16, 19 7 And it will be aa 1unique day which is bknown to Yahweh, neither day nor night, but it will be that at cevening time there will be light.Lit day one, cf. Gen 1:5Jer 30:7; Amos 8:9Is 45:21; Acts 15:18Is 58:10; Rev 22:5
8 And it will be in that day, athat living 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.Ezek 47:1-12; Joel 3:18; John 7:38; Rev 22:1, 2
9 And Yahweh will be aking over all the earth; in that day Yahweh will be the only bone, and His name one.Is 2:2-4; 45:23; Zech 9:9; 14:16, 17Deut 6:4; Is 45:21-24
10 All the land will be changed into a plain from aGeba to bRimmon south of Jerusalem; but 1Jerusalem will crise and dinhabit its site from eBenjamin’s Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the fCorner Gate, and from the gTower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.Lit it1 Kin 15:22Josh 15:32; Judg 20:45, 47Is 2:2; Amos 9:11Jer 30:18; Zech 12:6Jer 37:13; 38:72 Kin 14:13Jer 31:38 11 And 1people will inhabit it, and there will ano longer be anything devoted to destruction, for Jerusalem will bbe inhabited in security.Lit theyZech 8:13; Rev 22:3Jer 23:5, 6; Ezek 34:25-28
12 Now this will be the plague with which Yahweh will plague all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will arot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.Lev 26:16; Deut 28:21, 22 13 And it will be in that day, that abundant confusion from Yahweh will 1fall on them; and they will atake hold of one another’s hand, and the hand of one will 2go up against the hand of another.Lit be amongLit rise upZech 11:6 14 aAnd Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the bwealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold and silver and garments in great abundance.Zech 12:2, 5Is 23:18; Zech 14:1 15 And in the same way, athe plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey, and all the cattle that will be in those camps will be like this plague.Zech 14:12
16 Then it will be that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will ago up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of hosts, and to celebrate the bFeast of Booths.Is 60:6-9; 66:18-21, 23Lev 23:34-44 17 And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the aKing, Yahweh of hosts, there will be bno rain on them.Zech 14:9, 16Jer 14:3-6; Amos 4:7 18 And if the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the aplague with which Yahweh plagues the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.Zech 14:12, 15 19 This will be the 1punishment of Egypt, and the 2punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.Lit sin
20 In that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “aHoly to Yahweh.” And the bpots in the house of Yahweh will be like the bowls before the altar.Ex 28:36-38Ezek 46:20 21 And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be aholy to Yahweh of hosts; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a 1bCanaanite in the house of Yahweh of hosts in that day.Or merchantNeh 8:10; Rom 14:6, 7; 1 Cor 10:31Zeph 1:11