Zech 12
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The burden of the word of YHWH concerning Israel. [Thus] says YHWH, who stretches
forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man
within him:
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behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the peoples round about, and
upon Judah also shall it be in the siege against Jerusalem.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone
for all the peoples; all that burden themselves with it shall be sore wounded; and
all the nations of the earth shall be gathered together against it.
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In that day, says YHWH, I will smite every horse with terror, and his rider with madness;
and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the
peoples with blindness.
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And the chieftains of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem
are my strength in YHWH of hosts their God.
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In that day will I make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and
like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they shall devour all the peoples round about,
on the right hand and on the left; and [they of] Jerusalem shall yet again dwell in
their own place, even in Jerusalem.
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YHWH also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David
and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem be not magnified above Judah.
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In that day shall YHWH defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and he who is feeble among
them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the
angel of YHWH before them.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations
that come against Jerusalem.
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And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look to me whom they have pierced;
and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness
for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born.
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In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon
in the valley of Megiddon.
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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;
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the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites
apart, and their wives apart;
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all the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.