ZECHARIAH 14 [†]Behold,  x a day is coming for the LORD, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. 2[†]For  y I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and  z the city shall be taken  a and the houses plundered  b and the women raped.  c Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 d Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. 4[†] e On that day his feet shall stand  f on  g the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and  g the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by  h a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. 5[†]And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from  i the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.

6[†] e On that day  j there shall be  j no light, cold, or frost. [1] 7[†] k And there shall be a unique [2] day,  l which is known to the LORD, neither day nor night, but  m at evening time there shall be light.

8[^][†] e On that day  n living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to  o the eastern sea [3] and half of them to  o the western sea. [4]  p It shall continue in summer as in winter.

9[†]And  q the LORD will be king over all the earth.  r On that day the LORD will be  s one and  t his name one.

10[†] u The whole land shall be turned into a plain from  v Geba to  w Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But  x Jerusalem shall remain aloft  y on its site from  z the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to  a the Corner Gate, and from  b the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses. 11[†]And it shall be inhabited, for  c there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction. [5]  d Jerusalem shall dwell in security.

12[†]And this shall be  e the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

13And  f on that day a great panic from the LORD shall fall on them, so that  g each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other. 14Even  h Judah will fight at Jerusalem. And  i the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance. 15[†]And  j a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and whatever beasts may be in those camps.

16[†]Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem  k shall go up year after year to worship  l the King, the LORD of hosts, and  m to keep  n the Feast of Booths. 17[†]And if  o any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship  l the King, the LORD of hosts,  p there will be no rain on them. 18[†]And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; [6] there shall be  j the plague with which the LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up  m to keep the Feast of Booths. 19This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up  m to keep the Feast of Booths.

20[^][†]And  q on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses,  r “Holy to the LORD.” And the pots in the house of the LORD shall be as the bowls before the altar. 21[†]And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be  r holy to the LORD of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the meat of the sacrifice in them. And  s there shall no longer be  t a trader [7] in the house of the LORD of hosts  q on that day.