The Day of the Lord
1 Behold,the day of theLordis coming,
And your spoil will be divided in your midst.
2 ForI will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem;
The city shall be taken,
The houses rifled,
And the women ravished.
Half of the city shall go into captivity,
But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then theLordwill go forth
And fight against those nations,
As He fights in the day of battle.
4 And in that day His feet will standon the Mount of Olives,
Which faces Jerusalem on the east.
And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,
From east to west,
# Makinga very large valley;
Half of the mountain shall move toward the north
And half of it toward the south.
5 Then you shall fleethroughMy mountain valley,
For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal.
Yes, you shall flee
# As you fled from theearthquake
In the days of Uzziah king of Judah.
# Thus theLordmy God will come,
# Andall the saints with You.
6 It shall come to pass in that day
Thatthere will be no light;
The lights will diminish.
7 It shall be one day
# Which is known to theLord—
Neither day nor night.
# But atevening time it shall happen
Thatit will be light.
8 And in that day it shall be
# Thatlivingwaters shall flow from Jerusalem,
Half of them toward the eastern sea
And half of them toward the western sea;
In both summer and winter it shall occur.
9 And theLordshall beKing over all the earth.
In that day it shall be—
# “TheLordisone,”
And His name one.
10 All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem.Jerusalemshall be raised up andinhabited in her place from Benjamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate,andfromthe Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.
11 Thepeopleshall dwell in it;
# Andno longer shall there be utter destruction,
# But Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
12 And this shall be the plague with which theLordwill strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem:
Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet,
Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets,
And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.
13 It shall come to pass in that day
# Thata great panic from theLordwill be among them.
Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor,
# And raisehis hand against his neighbor’s hand;
14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem.
# And the wealth of all the surrounding nations
Shall be gathered together:
Gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance.
15 Such also shall be the plague
On the horseandthe mule,
On the camel and the donkey,
And on all the cattle that will be in those camps.
Soshallthis plaguebe.
The Nations Worship the King
16 And it shall come to passthateveryone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shallgo up from year to year toworship the King, theLordof hosts, and to keepthe Feast of Tabernacles.
17 And it shall bethatwhichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, theLordof hosts, on them there will be no rain.
18 If the family ofEgypt will not come up and enter in,theyshallhavenorain;they shall receive the plague with which theLordstrikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
20 In that day“HOLINESS TO THE LORD” shall beengravedon the bells of the horses. Thepots in theLord’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to theLordof hosts. Everyone who sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in them. In that day there shall no longer be aCanaanitein the house of theLordof hosts.