Zechariah 12

The burden of the word of God concerning Israel—the declaration of God, the one stretching out the heavens and founding the earth and forming the spirit of man within him.

“Behold, I am making Jerusalem a cup of staggering for all of the peoples all around. And also against Judah it will be, in the siege against Jerusalem.

And it will be on that day, I will make Jerusalem a stone of burden for all of the peoples. All of the ones lifting it, injuring, will be injured, and all of the nations of the earth will be gathered against it. \*

On that day”—the declaration of God—“I will strike every horse with confusion and its rider with madness. But over the house of Judah I will open my eyes, and every horse of the peoples I will strike with blindness.

And the chiefs of Judah will say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are a strength to me by God of Armies, their God.’ \*

On that day I will make the chiefs of Judah like a basin of fire among trees and like a torch of fire in a sheaf, and they will devour on the right and on the left all of the peoples all around. And Jerusalem will dwell again in its place, in Jerusalem.” \*

And God will save the tents of Judah at the first, so that the honor of the house of David and the honor of the dweller of Jerusalem will not be great over Judah.

On that day God will defend on behalf of the inhabitant of Jerusalem, and the stumbler among them on that day will be like David, and the house of David, like God, like the angel of God to their face.

“And it will be on that day, I will seek to destroy all of the nations coming against Jerusalem. \*

And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitant of Jerusalem a spirit of favor and supplications, and they will look to me, whom they pierced. And they will mourn over him as the mourning over the only one, and they will be bitter over him as being bitter over the firstborn.”

On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be great, like the mourning of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. \*

And the land will mourn, clans, clans separately: the clan of the house of David separately, and their wives separately; the clan of the house of Nathan separately, and their wives separately,

the clan of the house of Levi separately and their wives separately, the clan of the Shimeite separately and their wives separately,

all of the clans, the ones remaining, clans, clans separately, and their wives separately. \*