Mic 7:14-15, Zec 10:8-12, Zec 12-14, Rom 11:15, 26, 2Cor 3:16 | ESV | STEP | Shepherd your people with your staff , the flock of your inheritance , who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land ; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old .

14 ^aShepherd your people ^bwith your staff,
the flock of your inheritance,
who dwell alone in a forest
^cin the midst of ^da garden land; ^{▼▼Hebrew of Carmel}
let them graze in Bashan and Gilead
as in the days of old.
15 ^fAs in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,
I will show them ^{▼▼Hebrew him} marvelous things.

Zechariah 10:8-12

8 ^h“I will whistle for them and ⁱgather them in,
for I have redeemed them,
and ^jthey shall be as many as they were before.
9 ^kThough I scattered them among the nations,
yet in far countries ^lthey shall remember me,
and with their children they shall live and return.
10 ^mI will bring them home from the land of Egypt,
and gather them from Assyria,
and ⁿI will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon,
^otill there is no room for them.
11 ^pHe shall pass through the sea of troubles
and strike down the waves of the sea,
^qand all the depths of the Nile shall be dried up.
The pride of Assyria shall be laid low,
and ^rthe scepter of Egypt shall depart.
12 ^sI will make them strong in the Lord,
and ^tthey shall walk in his name,”

declares the Lord.

Zechariah 12

The Lord Will Give Salvation

1 ^uThe oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, ^vwho stretched out the heavens and ^wfounded the earth and ^xformed the spirit of man within him: 2 “Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem ^ya cup of staggering to ^zall the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem ^aawill also be against Judah. 3 ^abOn that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. ^acAll who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And ^adall the nations of the earth will gather against it. 4 ^aeOn that day, declares the Lord, ^afI will strike every horse ^agwith panic, and its rider ^ahwith madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when I strike every horse of the peoples ^aiwith blindness. 5 Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through the Lord of hosts, their God.’

6 ^aj“On that day I will make the clans of Judah ^aklike a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And ^althey shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while ^amJerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.

7 “And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah. 8 ^anOn that day ^aothe Lord will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that ^apthe feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, ^aqlike the angel of the Lord, going before them. 9 ^arAnd on that day ^asI will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Him Whom They Have Pierced

10 “And ^atI will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and ^aupleas for mercy, so that, ^avwhen they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, ^awthey shall mourn for him, ^axas one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. 11 ^ayOn that day ^azthe mourning in Jerusalem will be as great ^baas the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12 The land shall mourn, ^bbeach family ^{▼▼Or clan; also verses 13, 14} by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of ^bdNathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; 13 the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of ^bethe Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; 14 and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves.

Zechariah 13

1 ^bf“On that day there shall be ^bga fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.

Idolatry Cut Off

2 “And ^bhon that day, declares the Lord of hosts, ^biI will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that ^bjthey shall be remembered no more. And also ^bkI will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness. 3 And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ^bl‘You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the Lord.’ And his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.

4 “On that day ^bmevery prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive, 5 but he will say, ^bn‘I am no prophet, I am a worker of the soil, for a man sold me in my youth.’ ^{▼▼Or for the land has been my possession since my youth} 6 And if one asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your back?’ ^{▼▼Or on your chest; Hebrew wounds between your hands} he will say, ‘The wounds I received in the house of my friends.’

The Shepherd Struck

7 “Awake, O sword, against ^bqmy shepherd,
against the man who stands next to me,”

declares the Lord of hosts.
^br“Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
I will turn my hand against the little ones.
8 In the whole land, declares the Lord,
two thirds shall be cut off and perish,
^bsand one third shall be left alive.
9 And ^btI will put this third into the fire,
and refine them as one refines silver,
and test them as gold is tested.
^buThey will call upon my name,
and ^bvI will answer them.
^bwI will say, ‘They are my people’;
and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

Zechariah 14

The Coming Day of the Lord

1 Behold, ^bxa day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. 2 For ^byI will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and ^bzthe city shall be taken ^caand the houses plundered ^cband the women raped. ^ccHalf of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 ^cdThen the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. 4 ^ceOn that day his feet shall stand ^cfon ^cgthe Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and ^chthe Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by ^cia 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 ^cjthe earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.

6 ^ckOn that day ^clthere shall be ^cmno light, cold, or frost. ^{▼▼Compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain} 7 ^coAnd there shall be a unique ^{▼▼Hebrew one} day, ^cqwhich is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but ^crat evening time there shall be light.

8 ^csOn that day ^ctliving waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to ^cuthe eastern sea ^{▼▼That is, the Dead Sea} and half of them to ^cwthe western sea. ^{▼▼That is, the Mediterranean Sea} ^cyIt shall continue in summer as in winter.

9 And ^czthe Lord will be king over all the earth. ^daOn that day the Lord will be ^dbone and ^dchis name one.

10 ^ddThe whole land shall be turned into a plain from ^deGeba to ^dfRimmon south of Jerusalem. But ^dgJerusalem shall remain aloft ^dhon its site from ^dithe Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to ^djthe Corner Gate, and from ^dkthe Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses. 11 And it shall be inhabited, for ^dlthere shall never again be a decree of utter destruction. ^{▼▼The Hebrew term rendered decree of utter destruction refers to things devoted (or set apart) to the Lord (or by the Lord) for destruction} ^dnJerusalem shall dwell in security.

12 And this shall be ^dothe 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.

13 And ^dpon that day a great panic from the Lord shall fall on them, so that ^dqeach will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other. 14 Even ^drJudah will fight at Jerusalem. And ^dsthe wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance. 15 And ^dta 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 ^dushall go up year after year to worship ^dvthe King, the Lord of hosts, and ^dwto keep ^dxthe Feast of Booths. 17 And if ^dyany of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship ^dzthe King, the Lord of hosts, ^eathere 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; ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks rain} there shall be ^ecthe plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up ^edto keep the Feast of Booths. 19 This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up ^eeto keep the Feast of Booths.

20 And ^efon that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, ^eg“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 ^ehholy 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 ^eithere shall no longer be ^eja trader ^{▼▼Or Canaanite} in the house of the Lord of hosts ^elon that day.

Romans 11:15

15 For if their rejection means ^emthe reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

Romans 11:26

26 And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,

^en“The Deliverer will come ^eofrom Zion,
he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;

2 Corinthians 3:16

16 But when ^epone ^{▼▼Greek he} turns to the Lord, ^erthe veil is removed.