| Chapter 14 |
1 |
See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your
goods taken by force before your eyes. |
2 |
For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem;
and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the
women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest
of the people will not be cut off from the town. |
3 |
Then the Lord will go out and make war against those nations, as he did
in the day of the fight. |
4 |
And in that day his feet will be on the Mount of Olives, which is
opposite Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives will be parted in the
middle to the east and to the west, forming a very great valley; and half the
mountain will be moved to the north and half of it to the south. |
5 |
And the valley will be stopped ... and you will go in flight as you went
in flight from the earth-shock in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah: and the
Lord my God will come, and all his holy ones with him. |
6 |
And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice; |
7 |
And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without
change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light. |
8 |
And on that day living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them
flowing to the sea on the east and half to the sea on the west: in summer and in
winter it will be so. |
9 |
And the Lord will be King over all the earth: in that day there will be
one Lord and his name one. |
10 |
And all the land will become like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south
of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up and be living in her place; from the
doorway of Benjamin to the place of the first doorway, to the doorway of the
angle, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's wine-crushing places, men
will be living in her. |
11 |
And there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will be living without
fear of danger. |
12 |
And this will be the disease which the Lord will send on all the peoples
which have been warring against Jerusalem: their flesh will be wasted away while
they are on their feet, their eyes will be wasted in their heads and their
tongues in their mouths. |
13 |
And it will be on that day that a great fear will be sent among them from
the Lord; and everyone will take his neighbour's hand, and every man's hand will
be lifted against his neighbour's. |
14 |
And even Judah will be fighting against Jerusalem; and the wealth of all
the nations round about will be massed together, a great store of gold and
silver and clothing. |
15 |
And the horses and the transport beasts, the camels and the asses and all
the beasts in those tents will be attacked by the same disease. |
16 |
And it will come about that everyone who is still living, of all those
nations who came against Jerusalem, will go up from year to year to give worship
to the King, the Lord of armies, and to keep the feast of tents. |
17 |
And it will be that if any one of all the families of the earth does not
go up to Jerusalem to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, on them
there will be no rain. |
18 |
And if the family of Egypt does not go up or come there, they will be
attacked by the disease which the Lord will send on the nations: |
19 |
This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the
nations who do not go up to keep the feast of tents. |
20 |
On that day all the bells of the horses will be holy to the Lord, and the
pots in the Lord's house will be like the basins before the altar. |
21 |
And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of
armies: and all those who make offerings will come and take them for boiling
their offerings: in that day there will be no more traders in the house of the
Lord of armies. |