Bible, King James Version
Zechariah
Zech.12
[1] The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith
the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the
foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within
him.
[2] Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto
all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both
against Judah and against Jerusalem.
[3] And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome
stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be
cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered
together against it.
[4] In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse
with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open
mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of
the people with blindness.
[5] And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart,
The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of
hosts their God.
[6] In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an
hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a
sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the
right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited
again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
[7] The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first,
that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against
Judah.
[8] In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of
Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be
as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of
the LORD 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] And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of
supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have
pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his
only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in
bitterness for his firstborn.
[11] In that day shall there be a great mourning in
Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of
Megiddon.
[12] And the land shall mourn, every 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, every family apart, and
their wives apart.
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