Zechariah

12 The oracle of the word of Yahweh on Israel,—Declareth Yahweh—Stretching out the heavens and Founding the earth, and Fashioning the spirit of man within him:

2 Lo! I am making Jerusalem a bowl of reeling to all the peoples round about,—Moreover also on Judah shall it be in the siege against Jerusalem;

3 And it shall come to pass in that day That I will make Jerusalem a lifting-stone to all the peoples, All who seek to lift her shall cut themselves in pieces,—Though all the nations of the earth gather themselves together against her.

4 In that day Declareth Yahweh, I will smite every horse with terror, and his rider with madness,—And over the house of Judah will I keep opening mine eyes, And every horse of the peoples will I smite with blindness.

5 Then will the chiefs of Judah say in their hearts,—A strength unto me [would be] the inhabitants of Jerusalem, in Yahweh of hosts their God.

6 In that day will I make the chiefs of Judah Like a pan of fire among sticks and Like a torch of fire in a sheaf, So shall they devour on the right hand and on the left all the peoples round about; So shall Jerusalem yet be inhabited in her own place as Jerusalem.

7 But Yahweh will save the tents of Judah first,—Lest the honour of the house of David And the honour of the inhabitant of Jerusalem Should be magnified over Judah.

8 In that day will Yahweh throw a covering around the inhabitant of Jerusalem, So shall the tottering among them in that day become like David,—And the house of David—Like God, Like the messenger of Yahweh before them.

9 And it shall come to pass in that day,—That I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

10 But I will pour out Upon the house of David and Upon the inhabitant of Jerusalem The spirit of favour and of supplications, And they will look unto me whom they have pierced,—And will wail over him As one waileth over an only son, And will make bitter outcry over him As one maketh bitter outcry over a firstborn.

11 In that day will the wailing be great in Jerusalem, As the wailing of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon;

12 So shall the land wail, Family by family apart,—The family of the house of David apart And their wives apart, The family of the house of Nathan apart And their wives apart;

13 The family of the house of Levi apart, And their wives apart, The family of Shimei apart,—And their wives apart:

14 All the families that remain, Family by family apart,—And their wives apart.