The burden
of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the
Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and
layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth
the spirit of man within him.
02 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of
trembling unto all the people round about, when
they shall be in the siege both against Judah and
against Jerusalem.
03 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a
burdensome stone for all people: all that burden
themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though
all the people of the earth be gathered together
against it.
04 In that day, saith the Lord, I will smite
every horse with astonishment, and his rider with
madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house
of Judah, and will smite every horse of the
people with blindness.
05 And the governors of Judah shall say in their
heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my
strength in the Lord of hosts their God.
06 In that day will I make the governors of Judah
like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a
torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour
all the people round about, on the right hand and
on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited
again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
07 The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah
first, that the glory of the house of David and
the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not
magnify themselves against Judah.
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08 In that day shall the Lord defend the
inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble
among them at that day shall be as David; and the
house of David shall be as God, as the angel of
the Lord before them.
09 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I
will seek to destroy all the nations that come
against Jerusalem.
10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and
upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of
grace and of supplications: and they shall look
upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall
mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son,
and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that
is in bitterness for his firstborn.
11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in
Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the
valley of Megiddon.
12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart;
the family of the house of David apart, and their
wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan
apart, and their wives apart;
13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and
their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart,
and their wives apart;
14 All the families that remain, every family
apart, and their wives apart.
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