Zaccaria 14:12

La Riveduta Bibbia

E questa sarà la piaga con la quale l’Eterno colpirà tutti i popoli che avran mosso guerra a Gerusalemme: la loro carne si consumerà mentre stanno in piedi, gli occhi si struggeranno loro nelle orbite, la lor lingua si consumerà nella lor bocca.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Questa sar la piaga con cui lEterno colpir tutti i popoli che avranno mosso guerra a Gerusalemme: egli far consumare la loro carne mentre stanno in piedi, i loro occhi si consumeranno nelle loro orbite e la loro lingua si consumer nella loro bocca.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
E questa sarà la piaga, della quale il Signore percoterà tutti i popoli che avran guerreggiato contro a Gerusalemme: egli farà struggere la loro carne, mentre se ne stanno in piedi; i loro occhi eziandio si struggeranno ne’ lor bucchi, e la loro lingua si struggerà loro in bocca.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the plague wherewith: Zechariah 14:3, Zechariah 12:9, Psalms 110:5, Psalms 110:6, Isaiah 34:1-17, Isaiah 66:15, Isaiah 66:16, Ezekiel 38:18-22, Ezekiel 39:4-6, Ezekiel 39:17-20, Joel 3:1, Joel 3:2, Micah 4:11-13, Micah 5:8, Micah 5:9, Micah 7:16, Micah 7:17, Revelation 16:1-21, Revelation 19:17-21

Their flesh: Leviticus 26:18, Leviticus 26:21, Leviticus 26:24, Leviticus 26:28, Deuteronomy 28:59, 2 Chronicles 21:15, 2 Chronicles 21:18, 2 Chronicles 21:19, Psalms 90:11, Acts 12:23, Revelation 9:5, Revelation 9:6, Revelation 16:10, Revelation 16:11, Revelation 16:21, Revelation 17:16, Revelation 18:6-8

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:16 - consume Deuteronomy 28:20 - vexation Isaiah 24:21 - the Lord Isaiah 29:7 - the multitude Isaiah 34:2 - the indignation Isaiah 49:25 - I will contend Isaiah 60:12 - General Isaiah 66:24 - and look Jeremiah 50:11 - ye destroyers Jeremiah 51:11 - the vengeance Ezekiel 38:22 - I will plead Micah 4:3 - and rebuke Habakkuk 2:8 - the violence Zechariah 14:15 - General Zechariah 14:21 - in the Malachi 4:6 - and smite Luke 16:24 - and cool

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And this shall be the plagues,.... This respects one or more, or all, of the seven plagues, which will be inflicted on the antichristian states, mentioned in Revelation 15:1:

wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; who have been the enemies and persecutors of his church; and with which plague or plagues they shall be utterly consumed and destroyed:

their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet; antichrist will be consumed with the breath of Christ's mouth; the flesh of the whore of Rome, which is her substance, shall be eaten and devoured by the kings of the earth; and her destruction will be in a moment, suddenly, and at unawares, as is here suggested; see 2 Thessalonians 2:8:

and their eyes shall consume away in their holes; the right eye of the idol shepherd shall be utterly dried up, and the kingdom of the beast will be full of darkness, Zechariah 11:17:

and their tongues shall consume away in their mouth; with which antichrist and his followers have blasphemed the name of God, his tabernacle, and his saints; and which they will gnaw for pain, when the plagues of God are inflicted on them, Revelation 13:5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Again, upon the restoration of His people follows the destruction of His enemies. It shall, first and chiefly, be God’s doing, not man’s. “This shall be the plague.” The word is used of direct infliction by pestilence, “wherewith the Lord shall smite all the people (peoples) that fought against Jerusalem.” The awful description is of living corpses. Lap.: “The enemies of Jerusalem shall waste, not with fever or disease, but by a plague from God, so that, being sound, standing, living, in well-being, they should waste and consume away,” as Isaiah speaks of the “carcasses of the men, that have transgressed against Me; for their worm shall not die - and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh” Isaiah 66:24.

Their flesh shall consume away - Rather, “wasting away the flesh of each one.” It is the act of God, in His individual justice to each one of all those multitudes gathered against Him. One by one, “their eyes,” of which they said, “let our eye look on Zion” Micah 4:11, that is, with joy at its desolation, “shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue,” wherewith they blasphemed God, “shall consume away in their mouths” (compare Psalms 12:3; Isaiah 36:15, Isaiah 36:18; Isaiah 37:3-4, Isaiah 37:17, Isaiah 37:23, Isaiah 37:29). Appalling, horrible, picture! “standing on their feet,” yet their flesh mouldering away as in a grave-yard, their sightless balls decaying in their holes, the tongue putrefying in their mouth, a disgust to themselves and to others! Yet what, compared to the horrible inward decay of sin, whereby men “have a name that they live and are dead?” Revelation 3:1. Jerome: “Let us read Ecclesiastical histories, what Valerian, Decius, Diocletian, Maximian, what the savagest of all, Maximin, and lately Julian suffered, and then we shall prove by deeds, that the truth of prophecy was fulfilled in the letter also.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 14:12. And this shall be the plague — All her enemies shall be destroyed.

Their flesh shall consume away — These are the effects of famine which are described in this verse.