| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1This message concerning the fate of Israel came from the LORD: “This message is from the LORD, who stretched out the heavens, laid the foundations of the earth, and formed the human spirit. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I will make Jerusalem like an intoxicating drink that makes the nearby nations stagger when they send their armies to besiege Jerusalem and Judah. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3On that day I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock. All the nations will gather against it to try to move it, but they will only hurt themselves. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4“On that day,” says the LORD, “I will cause every horse to panic and every rider to lose his nerve. I will watch over the people of Judah, but I will blind all the horses of their enemies. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5And the clans of Judah will say to themselves, ‘The people of Jerusalem have found strength in the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, their God.’ |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6“On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a flame that sets a woodpile ablaze or like a burning torch among sheaves of grain. They will burn up all the neighboring nations right and left, while the people living in Jerusalem remain secure. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7“The LORD will give victory to the rest of Judah first, before Jerusalem, so that the people of Jerusalem and the royal line of David will not have greater honor than the rest of Judah. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8On that day the LORD will defend the people of Jerusalem; the weakest among them will be as mighty as King David! And the royal descendants will be like God, like the angel of the LORD who goes before them! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For on that day I will begin to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10“Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem. They will look on me whom they have pierced and mourn for him as for an only son. They will grieve bitterly for him as for a firstborn son who has died. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The sorrow and mourning in Jerusalem on that day will be like the great mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddo. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12“All Israel will mourn, each clan by itself, and with the husbands separate from their wives. The clan of David will mourn alone, as will the clan of Nathan, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13the clan of Levi, and the clan of Shimei. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Each of the surviving clans from Judah will mourn separately, and with the husbands separate from their wives. |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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