Behold, a day is coming for the LORD, when the spoil taken from
you will be divided in your midst. For I will gather all the
nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken
and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city
shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be
cut off from the city. Then the LORD will go out and fight against
those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. On that day his
feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem
on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from
east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount
shall move northward, and the other half southward. 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 the
earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my
God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
On that day there shall be no light, cold, or frost. And there
shall be a unique day, which is known to the LORD, neither day nor
night, but at evening time there shall be light.
On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of
them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It
shall continue in summer as in winter.
And the LORD will be king over all the earth. On that day the
LORD will be one and his name one.
The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon
south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site
from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the
Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's
winepresses. And it shall be inhabited, for there shall never again
be a decree of utter destruction. Jerusalem shall dwell in
security.
And this shall be 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.
And on that day a great panic from the LORD shall fall on them,
so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the
one will be raised against the hand of the other. Even Judah will
fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations
shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance.
And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules,
the camels, the donkeys, and whatever beasts may be in those camps.
Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come
against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King,
the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths. And if any of
the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the
King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them. And if the
family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them
there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which the
LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of
Booths. This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to
all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.
And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the
horses, “Holy to the LORD.” And the pots in the house of the LORD
shall be as the bowls before the altar. And every pot in Jerusalem
and Judah shall be 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 there shall no longer be a trader in the
house of the LORD of hosts on that day.
