4 And in that day His feet will stand aon the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west, bMaking a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the south.
5 Then you shall flee through My mountain valley, For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal. Yes, you shall flee As you fled from the aearthquake In the days of Uzziah king of Judah. bThus the Lord my God will come, Andcall the saints with You.
6 It shall come to pass in that day That the1re will be no light; The lights will diminish.
7 It shall be one day aWhich is known to the Lord— Neither day nor night. But at bevening time it shall happen That it will be light.
8 And in that day it shall be That living awaters shall flow from Jerusalem, Half of them toward1 the eastern sea And half of them toward1 the western sea; In both summer and winter it shall occur.
9 And the Lord shall be aKing over all the earth. In that day it shall be— b“The Lordis one,” And His name one.
10 All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised up and ainhabited in her place from Benjamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, band from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.
11Thepeople shall dwell in it; And ano longer shall there be utter destruction, bBut Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
12 And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall1 dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.
13 It shall come to pass in that day Thataa great panic from the Lord will be among them. Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor, And raise bhis hand against his neighbor’s hand;
14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem. aAnd the wealth of all the surrounding nations Shall be gathered together: Gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance.
15aSuch also shall be the plague On the horse and the mule, On the camel and the donkey, And on all the cattle that will be in those camps. So shall this plague be.
The Nations Worship the King
16 And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall ago up from year to year to bworship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep cthe Feast of Tabernacles.
17aAnd it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain.
18 If the family of aEgypt will not come up and enter in, bthey shallhave no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
19 This shall be the1 punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
20 In that day a“HOLINESS TO THE LORD” shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. The bpots in the Lord’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
21 Yes,1 every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the Lord of hosts. Everyone who sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in them. In that day there shall no longer be a aCanaanite bin the house of the Lord of hosts.
light . . . not . . . clear . . . dark—JEROME, Chaldee, Syriac, and Septuagint translate, "There shall not be light, but cold and ice"; that is, a day full of horror (Amos 5:18). But the Hebrew for "clear" does not mean "cold," but "precious," "splendid" (compare Job 31:26). CALVIN translates, "The light shall not be clear, but dark" (literally, "condensation," that is, thick mist); like a dark day in which you can hardly distinguish between day and night. English Version accords with Zechariah 14:7 : "There shall not be altogether light nor altogether darkness," but an intermediate condition in which sorrows shall be mingled with joys.
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