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God Will Battle Jerusalem's Enemies

¹ Behold, a ^(C1)day is coming for the LORD when ^(C2)the spoils taken from you will be divided among you.² For I will ^(C1)gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be taken, the ^(C2)houses plundered, the women raped, and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be eliminated from the city.³ Then the LORD will go forth and ^(C1)fight against those nations, as ^(F1)when He fights on a day of battle.⁴ On that day His feet will ^(C1)stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be ^(C2)split ^(F1)in its middle from east to west forming a very large valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and the other half toward the south.⁵ And you will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; yes, you will flee just as you fled from the ^(C1)earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. ^(C2)Then the LORD, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with ^(F1)Him!

⁶ On that day there will be ^(C1)no light; the ^(F1)luminaries will die out.⁷ For it will be ^(C1)a unique day which is ^(C2)known to the LORD, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at the ^(C3)time of evening there will be light.

⁸ And on that day ^(C1)living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea; it will be in summer as well as in winter.

God Will Be King over All

⁹ And the LORD will be ^(C1)King over all the earth; on that day the LORD will be the only ^(C2)one, and His name the only one.

¹⁰ All the land will change into a plain from ^(C1)Geba to ^(C2)Rimmon south of Jerusalem; but ^(F1)Jerusalem will ^(C3)rise and ^(C4)remain on its site from ^(C5)Benjamin's Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the ^(C6)Corner Gate, and from the ^(C7)Tower of Hananel to the king's wine presses.¹¹ People will live in it, and there will ^(C1)no longer be a curse, for Jerusalem will ^(C2)live in security.

¹² Now this will be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will ^(C1)rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.¹³ And it will come about on that day that a great panic from the LORD will ^(F1)fall on them; and they will ^(C1)seize one another's hand, and the hand of one will ^(F2)be raised against the hand of another.^14 (C1)Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the ^(C2)wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance.¹⁵ And just like this ^(C1)plague, there will be a plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey, and all the cattle that will be in those camps.

¹⁶ Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will ^(C1)go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of armies, and to celebrate the ^(C2)Feast of Booths.¹⁷ And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the ^(C1)King, the LORD of armies, there will be ^(C2)no rain on them.¹⁸ And if the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the ^(C1)plague with which the LORD strikes the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.¹⁹ This will be the ^(F1)punishment of Egypt, and the ^(F1)punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

²⁰ On that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, "^(C1)HOLY TO THE LORD." And the ^(C2)cooking pots in the LORD'S house will be like the bowls before the altar.²¹ Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be ^(C1)holy to the LORD of armies; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a ^(F1)(C2)Canaanite in the house of the LORD of armies on that day.