Zec 12-14 | ESV | STEP | The oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel : Thus declares the Lord , who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:

1 ^aThe oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, ^bwho stretched out the heavens and ^cfounded the earth and ^dformed the spirit of man within him: 2 “Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem ^ea cup of staggering to ^fall the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem ^gwill also be against Judah. 3 ^hOn that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. ⁱAll who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And ^jall the nations of the earth will gather against it. 4 ^kOn that day, declares the Lord, ^lI will strike every horse ^mwith panic, and its rider ⁿwith madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when I strike every horse of the peoples ^owith 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 ^p“On that day I will make the clans of Judah ^qlike a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And ^rthey shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while ^sJerusalem 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 ^tOn that day ^uthe Lord will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that ^vthe feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, ^wlike the angel of the Lord, going before them. 9 ^xAnd on that day ^yI will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Him Whom They Have Pierced

10 “And ^zI will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and ^aapleas for mercy, so that, ^abwhen they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, ^acthey shall mourn for him, ^adas one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. 11 ^aeOn that day ^afthe mourning in Jerusalem will be as great ^agas the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12 The land shall mourn, ^aheach 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 ^ajNathan 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 ^akthe 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 ^al“On that day there shall be ^ama fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.

Idolatry Cut Off

2 “And ^anon that day, declares the Lord of hosts, ^aoI will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that ^apthey shall be remembered no more. And also ^aqI 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, ^ar‘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 ^asevery 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, ^at‘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 ^awmy shepherd,
against the man who stands next to me,”

declares the Lord of hosts.
^ax“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,
^ayand one third shall be left alive.
9 And ^azI will put this third into the fire,
and refine them as one refines silver,
and test them as gold is tested.
^baThey will call upon my name,
and ^bbI will answer them.
^bcI 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, ^bda day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. 2 For ^beI will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and ^bfthe city shall be taken ^bgand the houses plundered ^bhand the women raped. ^biHalf of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 ^bjThen the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. 4 ^bkOn that day his feet shall stand ^blon ^bmthe Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and ^bnthe Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by ^boa 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 ^bpthe earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.

6 ^bqOn that day ^brthere shall be ^bsno light, cold, or frost. ^{▼▼Compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain} 7 ^buAnd there shall be a unique ^{▼▼Hebrew one} day, ^bwwhich is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but ^bxat evening time there shall be light.

8 ^byOn that day ^bzliving waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to ^cathe eastern sea ^{▼▼That is, the Dead Sea} and half of them to ^ccthe western sea. ^{▼▼That is, the Mediterranean Sea} ^ceIt shall continue in summer as in winter.

9 And ^cfthe Lord will be king over all the earth. ^cgOn that day the Lord will be ^chone and ^cihis name one.

10 ^cjThe whole land shall be turned into a plain from ^ckGeba to ^clRimmon south of Jerusalem. But ^cmJerusalem shall remain aloft ^cnon its site from ^cothe Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to ^cpthe Corner Gate, and from ^cqthe Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses. 11 And it shall be inhabited, for ^crthere 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} ^ctJerusalem shall dwell in security.

12 And this shall be ^cuthe 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 ^cvon that day a great panic from the Lord shall fall on them, so that ^cweach will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other. 14 Even ^cxJudah will fight at Jerusalem. And ^cythe wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance. 15 And ^cza 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 ^dashall go up year after year to worship ^dbthe King, the Lord of hosts, and ^dcto keep ^ddthe Feast of Booths. 17 And if ^deany of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship ^dfthe King, the Lord of hosts, ^dgthere 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 ^dithe plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up ^djto 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 ^dkto keep the Feast of Booths.

20 And ^dlon that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, ^dm“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 ^dnholy 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 ^dothere shall no longer be ^dpa trader ^{▼▼Or Canaanite} in the house of the Lord of hosts ^dron that day.