1 Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil will be divided in
your midst. 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle;
and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. half
of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not
be cut off from the city. 3 Then Yahweh will go out and fight against
those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. 4 His feet will
stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the
east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making
a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and
half of it toward the south. 5 You shall flee by the valley of my
mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you
shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of
Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with
you. 6 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or
frost. 7 It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and
not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be
light.
8 It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from
Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the
western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.
9 Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one,
and his name one. 10 All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba
to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in
her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner
gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king’s wine-presses. 11 Men
will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell
safely. 12 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the
peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away
while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their
sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth. 13 It will
happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh will be among them; and
they will lay hold everyone on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will
rise up against the hand of his neighbor. 14 Judah also will fight at
Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered
together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.
15 So will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of
the donkey, and of all the animals that will be in those camps, as that
plague. 16 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations
that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King,
Yahweh of Hosts, and to keep the feast of tents. 17 It will be, that
whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to
worship the King, Yahweh of Hosts, on them there will be no rain. 18 If
the family of Egypt doesn’t go up, and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on
them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that
don’t go up to keep the feast of tents. 19 This will be the punishment of
Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don’t go up to keep the
feast of tents. 20 In that day there will be on the bells of the horses,
“HOLY TO YAHWEH;” and the pots in Yahweh’s house will be like the bowls
before the altar. 21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy
to Yahweh of Hosts; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them,
and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the
house of Yahweh of Hosts.
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