Jerusalem will be Attacked
1 A revelation of the word of the Lord concerning Israel.
The Lord, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him says:
2 “I will make Jerusalem a cup of wine, that will make the surrounding nations reel, and Judah will be caught up in the siege against Jerusalem.
3 On that day, I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone to the surrounding nations which all who attempt to move will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against them.
4 On that day,” says the Lord, “I will strike every horse with terror and his rider with madness, and my eyes will be open over the house of Judah, and I will strike every horse of the nations with blindness.
5 The leaders of Judah will think to themselves, ‘The people of Jerusalem are our strength, through the Lord of Hosts, their God.
6 On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a fire pit among wood and like a flaming torch among sheaves of grain; and they will devour all the surrounding nations, to the right and to the left, and Jerusalem will once again dwell in their own place, in Jerusalem.
7 The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah. 8 On that day the Lord will defend the people of Jerusalem. At that time, he who is weak among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord before them. 9 It will happen at that time, that I will seek and destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.”
Mourning the One they Pierced
10 “I will pour on the house of David, and on the people of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication, and they will look to me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
11 On that day there will be great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddo. 12 The land will mourn, every family separately: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives separately; the family of the house of Nathan separately,
and their wives separately; 13 the family of the house of Levi separately, and their wives separately; the family of the Shimeites separately, and their wives separately; 14 all the families who remain, every family separately, and their wives separately.”