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The Coming Day of the Lord

¹ Behold, ^(a)a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. ² For ^(b)I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and ^(c)the city shall be taken ^(d)and the houses plundered ^(e)and the women raped. ^(f)Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. ^3 (g)Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. ^4 (h)On that day his feet shall stand ⁽ⁱ⁾on ^(j)the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and ^(k)the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by ^(l)a 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 ^(m)the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.^[a]

^6 (n)On that day ^(o)there shall be ^(p)no light, cold, or frost.^{[b] 7 (q)}And there shall be a unique^[c] day, ^(r)which is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but ^(s)at evening time there shall be light.

^8 (t)On that day ^(u)living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to ^(v)the eastern sea^[d] and half of them to ^(w)the western sea.^{[e] (x)}It shall continue in summer as in winter.

⁹ And ^(y)the Lord will be king over all the earth. ^(z)On that day the Lord will be ^(aa)one and ^(ab)his name one.

^10 (ac)The whole land shall be turned into a plain from ^(ad)Geba to ^(ae)Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But ^(af)Jerusalem shall remain aloft ^(ag)on its site from ^(ah)the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to ^(ai)the Corner Gate, and from ^(aj)the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses. ¹¹ And it shall be inhabited, for ^(ak)there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction.^{[f] (al)}Jerusalem shall dwell in security.

¹² And this shall be ^(am)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.

¹³ And ^(an)on that day a great panic from the Lord shall fall on them, so that ^(ao)each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other. ¹⁴ Even ^(ap)Judah will fight at Jerusalem.^[g] And ^(aq)the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance. ¹⁵ And ^(ar)a 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 ^(as)shall go up year after year to worship ^(at)the King, the Lord of hosts, and ^(au)to keep ^(av)the Feast of Booths. ¹⁷ And if ^(aw)any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship ^(ax)the King, the Lord of hosts, ^(ay)there 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;^[h] there shall be ^(az)the plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up ^(ba)to 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 ^(bb)to keep the Feast of Booths.

²⁰ And ^(bc)on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, ^(bd)"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 ^(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 ^(bf)there shall no longer be ^(bg)a trader^[i] in the house of the Lord of hosts ^(bh)on that day.