ZECHARIAH Chapter 14 (GNB)
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The day when the LORD will sit in judgment is near. Then Jerusalem will be
looted, and the loot will be divided up before your eyes. |
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14:2
The LORD will bring all the nations together to make war on Jerusalem. The
city will be taken, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half of the
people will go into exile, but the rest of them will not be taken away from
the city. |
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14:3
Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he has fought
in times past. |
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14:4
At that time he will stand on the Mount of Olives, to the east of Jerusalem.
Then the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west by a large
valley. Half of the mountain will move northward,
and half of it southward. |
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14:5
You will escape through this valley that divides the mountain in two. You
will flee as your ancestors did when the earthquake struck in the time of
King Uzziah of Judah. The LORD my God will come, bringing all the angels with
him. |
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14:6
When that time comes, there will no longer be cold or frost, |
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14:7 nor
any darkness. There will always be daylight, even at nighttime. When this
will happen is known only to the LORD. |
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14:8
When that day comes, fresh water will flow from Jerusalem, half of it to the
Dead Sea and the other half to the Mediterranean. It will flow all year long,
in the dry season as well as the wet. |
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14:9
Then the LORD will be king over all the earth; everyone will worship him as
God and know him by the same name. |
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14:10
The whole region, from Geba in the north to Rimmon in the south, will be made
level. Jerusalem will tower above the land around it; the city will reach
from the Benjamin Gate to the Corner Gate, where there had been an earlier
gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal wine presses. |
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14:11
The people will live there in safety, no longer threatened by destruction. |
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14:12
The LORD will bring a terrible disease on all the nations that make war on
Jerusalem. Their flesh will rot away while they are still alive; their eyes
and their tongues will rot away. |
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14:13
At that time the LORD will make them so confused and afraid that everyone
will seize the man next to him and attack him. |
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14:14
The men of Judah will fight to defend Jerusalem. They will take as loot the
wealth of all the nations---gold, silver, and clothing in great abundance. |
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14:15
A terrible disease will also fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, and
the donkeys---on all the animals in the camps of the enemy. |
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14:16
Then all of the survivors from the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will
go there each year to worship the LORD Almighty as king and to celebrate the
Festival of Shelters. |
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14:17
If any nation refuses to go and worship the LORD Almighty as king, then rain
will not fall on their land. |
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14:18
If the Egyptians refuse to celebrate the Festival of Shelters, then they will
be struck by the same disease that the LORD will send on every nation that
refuses to go. |
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14:19
This will be the punishment that will fall on Egypt and on all the other
nations if they do not celebrate the Festival of Shelters. |
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14:20
At that time even the harness bells of the horses will be inscribed with the
words "Dedicated to the LORD." The cooking pots in the Temple will
be as sacred as the bowls before the altar. |
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14:21
Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in all Judah will be set apart for use in
the worship of the LORD Almighty. The people who offer sacrifices will use
them for boiling the meat of the sacrifices. When that time comes, there will
no longer be any merchant in the Temple of the LORD Almighty. |
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