1. This is the word of the LORD concerning Israel. The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, who
says the foundation of the earth, and who forms the spirit of man within him, declares:
2. "I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will
be besieged as well as Jerusalem.
3. On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an
immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.
4. On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness," declares the LORD. "I
will keep a watchful eye over the house of Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations.
5. Then the leaders of Judah will say in their hearts, 'The people of Jerusalem are strong, because
the LORD Almighty is their God.
6. "On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch
among sheaves. They will consume right and left all the surrounding peoples, but Jerusalem will
remain intact in her place.
7. "The LORD wil lsave the dwellings of Judah first, so that the honor of the house of David and of
Jerusalems inhabitants may not be greater than that of Judah.
8. On that day the LORD wil lshield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them
will be like David and the house of David will be like God, like the Angel of the LORD going before
them.
9. On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem.
10. "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and
supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one
mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
11. On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be great, like the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the
plain of Megiddo.
12. The land will mourn, each clan by itself, with their wives by themselves: the clan of the house of
David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nation and their wives,
13. the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives,
14. and all the rest of the clans and their wives.
