Zechariah:12-14
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The burden of the word of the LORD against Israel .
Thus says the LORD ,
who stretches out the heavens ,
lays the foundation of the earth ,
and forms the spirit of man within him :
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Behold ,
I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples ,
when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem .
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And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples ;
all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces ,
though all nations of the earth are gathered against it .
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In that day ,"
says the LORD , "
I will strike every horse with confusion ,
and its rider with madness ;
I will open My eyes on the house of Judah ,
and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness .
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And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart , "
The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in the LORD of hosts ,
their God .'
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In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a firepan in the woodpile ,
and like a fiery torch in the sheaves ;
they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left ,
but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place--Jerusalem .
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The LORD will save the tents of Judah first ,
so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not become greater than that of Judah .
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In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem ;
the one who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David ,
and the house of David shall be like God ,
like the Angel of the LORD before them .
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It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem .
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And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication ;
then they will look on Me whom they pierced .
Yes ,
they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son ,
and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn .
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In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem ,
like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo .
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And the land shall mourn ,
every family by itself :
the family of the house of David by itself ,
and their wives by themselves ;
the family of the house of Nathan by itself ,
and their wives by themselves ;
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the family of the house of Levi by itself ,
and their wives by themselves ;
the family of Shimei by itself ,
and their wives by themselves ;
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all the families that remain ,
every family by itself ,
and their wives by themselves .
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In that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem ,
for sin and for uncleanness .
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It shall be in that day ,"
says the LORD of hosts , "
that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land ,
and they shall no longer be remembered .
I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart from the land .
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It shall come to pass that if anyone still prophesies ,
then his father and mother who begot him will say to him , "
You shall not live ,
because you have spoken lies in the name of the LORD .'
And his father and mother who begot him shall thrust him through when he prophesies .
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And it shall be in that day that every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies ;
they will not wear a robe of coarse hair to deceive .
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But he will say , "
I am no prophet ,
I am a farmer ;
for a man taught me to keep cattle from my youth .'
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And one will say to him , "
What are these wounds between your arms ?'
Then he will answer , "
Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends .'
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Awake ,
O sword ,
against My Shepherd ,
Against the Man who is My Companion ,"
Says the LORD of hosts . "
Strike the Shepherd ,
And the sheep will be scattered ;
Then I will turn My hand against the little ones .
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And it shall come to pass in all the land ,"
Says the LORD , "
That two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die ,
But one-third shall be left in it :
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I will bring the one-third through the fire ,
Will refine them as silver is refined ,
And test them as gold is tested .
They will call on My name ,
And I will answer them .
I will say , "
This is My people ';
And each one will say , "
The LORD is my God ."'
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Behold ,
the day of the LORD is coming ,
And your spoil will be divided in your midst .
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For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem ;
The city shall be taken ,
The houses rifled ,
And the women ravished .
Half of the city shall go into captivity ,
But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city .
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Then the LORD will go forth And fight against those nations ,
As He fights in the day of battle .
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And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives ,
Which faces Jerusalem on the east .
And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two ,
From east to west ,
Making a very large valley ;
Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the south .
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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 earthquake In the days of Uzziah king of Judah .
Thus the LORD my God will come ,
And all the saints with You .
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It shall come to pass in that day That there will be no light ;
The lights will diminish .
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It shall be one day Which is known to the LORD --
Neither day nor night .
But at evening time it shall happen That it will be light .
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And in that day it shall be That living waters shall flow from Jerusalem ,
Half of them toward the eastern sea And half of them toward the western sea ;
In both summer and winter it shall occur .
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And the LORD shall be King over all the earth .
In that day it shall be -- "
The LORD is one ,"
And His name one .
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All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem .
Jerusalem shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin '
s Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate ,
and from the Tower of Hananel to the king '
s winepresses .
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The people shall dwell in it ;
And no longer shall there be utter destruction ,
But Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited .
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And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem :
Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet ,
Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets ,
And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths .
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It shall come to pass in that day That a great panic from the LORD will be among them .
Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor ,
And raise his hand against his neighbor '
s hand ;
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Judah also will fight at Jerusalem .
And the wealth of all the surrounding nations Shall be gathered together :
Gold ,
silver ,
and apparel in great abundance .
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Such 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 .
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And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King ,
the LORD of hosts ,
and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles .
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And 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 .
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If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in ,
they shall have 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 .
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This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles .
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In that day "
HOLINESS TO THE LORD "
shall be engraved on the bells of the horses .
The pots in the LORD '
s house shall be like the bowls before the altar .
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Yes ,
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 Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts .
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that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth ,
from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah ,
son of Berechiah ,
whom you murdered between the temple and the altar .
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from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the temple .
Yes ,
I say to you ,
it shall be required of this generation .
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