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Zechariah 12 |
1 |
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. |
2 |
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. |
3 |
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. |
4 |
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. |
5 |
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. |
6 |
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. |
7 |
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. |
8 |
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. |
9 |
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. |