1
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy
spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 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.
3 Then shall the LORD go
forth, and fight against those nations, as when
he fought in the day of battle.
4 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.
5 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.
6 And it shall come to pass
in that day, that the light shall not be clear,
nor dark:
7 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.
8 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.
9 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.
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