Zechariah 12
1THE burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. The Lord Who stretcheth out the heaven and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him, saith:
2Behold I will make Jerusalem like a porch shaken by all the peoples round about. And in Judea there shall be a siege against Jerusalem,
3and in that day I will make Jerusalem a stone to be trampled by all the nations: every one who trampleth her will make her his mocking stock.
4[Yet] when all the nations of the earth shall be gathered against her, in that day, saith the Lord Almighty, I will smite every horse with astonishment and his rider with madness. But upon the house of Juda I will open Mine eyes. When I smite all the horses of the nations with blindness,
5then will Juda’s captains of thousands say in their hearts, We shall find those for us who inhabit Jerusalem by the Lord Almighty their God.
6In that day I will make Juda’s captains of thousands like a firebrand among wood, and like a flaming torch among stubble. And they shall devour on the right and on the left all the peoples around. And Jerusalem shall again dwell by herself in Jerusalem.
7And the Lord will save the dwellings of Juda as at the beginning.
8That the boasting of the house of David may not be magnified, nor the elevation of the inhabitants of Jerusalem depend upon Juda, The Lord will indeed, in that day, spread a shield over the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the weak among them shall in that day be like David, and the house of David like the house of God—like an angel of the Lord before them.
9And it shall come to pass, in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
10And when I pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and compassion, then will they look to Me whom they jeered; and they will mourn over Me with a mourning as for a beloved, and be afflicted with sorrow as for a first-born [son].
11In that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be great, like the weeping of a pomegranate grove cut down in the plain.
12And the land will mourn in separate families, the family of the house of David by itself and their women by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself and their women by themselves;
13the family of the house of Levi by itself and their women by themselves; the family of Symeon by itself and their women by themselves;
14all the remaining families, every family by itself and their women by themselves.