1Behold,
the day of the Lord is coming, and your spoil will be divided in your midst.
2And I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to war, and the city will be captured, and the houses will be plundered, and the women raped. And half of the city will be deported, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
3Then the
Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as on the day when he fought – on the day of battle.
4And on that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which
is before Jerusalem to the east, and the Mount of Olives will be split in half, eastwards and westwards,
and there will be a very big valley, and half of the mountain will move northwards, and half of it southwards.
5And you will flee
to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach Azal, and you will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and the
Lord my God will come. All the holy
ones will be with you.
6And it will come to pass on that day
that there will be no light; the prized
lights will wane.
7And it will come to pass
on a certain day – it is known to the Lord – that there will be no day and no night. Then it will come to pass in the evening
that there will be light.
8And it will come to pass on that day that
living water will go out from Jerusalem, half of it to the eastern sea and half of it to the western sea.
This will be in summer and in winter.
9And the
Lord will be king over all the earth; on that day, the
Lord will be one, and his name one.
10All the land will be changed to like the arid tract from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem. Then it will be
lifted up high, and it will be inhabited in its place, from Benjamin's Gate to the place of the first gate – to the Corner Gate – and
from the Tower of Hananel to the king's wine vats.
11And they will dwell in it, and there will be no more destruction, and Jerusalem will be inhabited securely.
12And this will be the
way of striking
in which the
Lord will strike all the
various peoples who made war against Jerusalem: he will cause their flesh to melt away while they are standing on their feet, and their eyes will melt in their sockets, and their tongue will melt away in their mouth.
13And it will come to pass on that day
that there will be a great commotion among them from the
Lord, and each
one will seize the hand of his neighbour, and his hand will rise against the hand of his neighbour.
14And Judah will also fight in Jerusalem, and the wealth of all the Gentiles round about will be gathered – gold and silver and clothes, in great abundance.
15And that
is the way that the striking of the horse, the mule, the camel and the donkey, and all cattle will be, which will be in those camps:
it will be according to that
way of striking.
16And it will come to pass
that all the remainder of all the Gentiles who came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year, to worship the king, the
Lord of hosts, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.
17And it will come to pass that
concerning any representative from the families of the earth who does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the king, the
Lord of hosts, there will be no rain on them.
18And if the family of Egypt does not go up, and it does not come, then
there will be no
rain on them;
that will be the
way of striking
with which the
Lord will strike the Gentiles who do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.
19That will be
the punishment for the sin of Egypt, and the
punishment for the sin of all the Gentiles who do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.
20On that day there will be
written on the bells of a horse, ‘Holiness to the
Lord’. And the pans in the house of the
Lord will be as basins before the altar.
21And every pan in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the
Lord of hosts, and all those who sacrifice will come and will take
some of them, and they will cook in them. And there will not be any Canaanite any longer in the house of the
Lord of hosts, on that day.”
Reference(s) in Chapter 14: v.1 ↔ Revelation 1:10 ● v.7 ↔ Revelation 1:10 ● v.8 ↔ John 7:38, Revelation 22:1.