 1 Behold, the day of the Lord is coming and your spoil will be divided among you. 2 I will gather all nations against Jerusalem. The city will be taken, the houses trashed+, and the women abused+. Half of the city will go into captivity and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. 3 The Lord will fight against those nations like the day He fought in the day of battle. 4 In that day, His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives on the east of Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives will be divided in the middle from east to west by a great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north and half toward the south. 5 Then you will flee to the valley of my mountains. For the valley of the mountains will reach to Azal and you will flee as you fled from before the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come and all the saints with you. 6 In that day, the light will be neither clear nor dark. 7 It will be a day as known only to the Lord, not day or night, but at evening time there will be light. 8 In that day, living waters will go out from Jerusalem. Half will go toward the eastern sea and half toward the western sea, in both summer and winter. 9 The Lord will be king over all the earth. In that day, there will be one Lord and His name will be one. 10 All the land will be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. It will rise and live in its place from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate. To the Corner Gate and from the tower of Hananeel to the king's winepresses. 11 They will live there and there will never again be a shutting in, but Jerusalem will live safely. 12 This will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who have fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet. Their eyes will rot in their sockets. Their tongue will rot in their mouth. 13 In that day, a great panic from the Lord will be among them and they will each one lay hold of his neighbor and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor. 14 Judah will also fight at Jerusalem and the wealth of all the nations all around will be gathered, gold, and silver, and clothing in great abundance. 15 So the plague will be on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, like this plague. 16 Everyone who is left of all the nations that came up against Jerusalem will go from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 Whoever will not come up from all the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, there will be no rain on them. 18 If the family of Egypt does not go up, nor come in, they shall have no rain, but the plague with which the Lord shall strike the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This shall be Egypt's offense, and the offense of all the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 20 In that day, there shall be on the bells of the horses, HOLY TO THE Lord. And the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. 21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holy to the Lord of hosts. All who sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil in them. And in that day there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the Lord of hosts.
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