Behold,
the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall
be divided in the midst of thee.
02 For I will gather all nations against
Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken,
and the houses rifled, and the women ravished;
and half of the city shall go forth into
captivity, and the residue of the people shall
not be cut off from the city.
03 Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight
against those nations, as when he fought in the
day of battle.
04 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the
mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the
east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the
midst thereof toward the east and toward the
west, and there shall be a very great valley; and
half of the mountain shall remove toward the
north, and half of it toward the south.
05 And ye shall flee to the valley of the
mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall
reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye
fled from before the earthquake in the days of
Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall
come, and all the saints with thee.
06 And it shall come to pass in that day, that
the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
07 But it shall be one day which shall be known
to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall
come to pass, that at evening time it shall be
light.
08 And it shall be in that day, that living
waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them
toward the former sea, and half of them toward
the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it
be.
09 And the Lord shall be king over all the earth:
in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name
one.
10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from
Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall
be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from
Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate,
unto the corner gate, and from the tower of
Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.
11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be
no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be
safely inhabited.
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12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the
Lord will smite all the people that have fought
against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away
while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes
shall consume away in their holes, and their
tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a
great tumult from the Lord shall be among them;
and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of
his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against
the hand of his neighbour.
14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and
the wealth of all the heathen round about shall
be gathered together, gold, and silver, and
apparel, in great abundance.
15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of
the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of
all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as
this plague.
16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that
is left of all the nations which came against
Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to
worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep
the feast of tabernacles.
17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up
of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem
to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon
them shall be no rain.
18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come
not, that have no rain; there shall be the
plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen
that come not up to keep the feast of
tabernacles.
19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the
punishment of all nations that come not up to
keep the feast of tabernacles.
20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of
the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots
in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls
before the altar.
21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall
be holiness unto the Lord of hosts: and all they
that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and
seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no
more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of
hosts.
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