CHAPTER 14
For I will gather
all
the nations
for battle
against
Jerusalem,
and the city
will be captured,
the houses
looted,
and the women
ravished.
Half
of the city
will go
into captivity,
but the rest
of the people
will not
be removed
from
the city.
On that
day
His feet
will stand
on
the Mount
of Olives,
east
of Jerusalem,
and the Mount
of Olives
will be split
in two
from east
to west,
forming a great
valley,
with half
the mountain
moving
to the north
and half
to the south.
You will flee
by My mountain
valley,
for
it
will extend
to
Azal.
You will flee
as
you fled
from
the earthquake
in the days
of Uzziah
king
of Judah.
Then the LORD
my God
will come,
and all
the holy ones
with Him.
It will be
a day
known
only
to the LORD,
without
day
or night;
but when evening
comes,
there will be
light.
And
on that
day
living
water
will flow out
from Jerusalem,
half
of it toward
the eastern
sea
and the other half
toward
the western
sea,
in summer
and winter alike.
All
the land
from Geba
to Rimmon
south
of Jerusalem
will be turned
into a plain,
but Jerusalem will be raised up
and will remain
in her place,
from the Benjamin
Gate
to
the site
of the First
Gate,
to
the Corner
Gate,
and from the Tower
of Hananel
to
the royal
winepresses.
People will live
there,
and never
again
will there be
an utter destruction.
So Jerusalem
will dwell
securely.
And this
will be
the plague
with which the LORD
strikes
all
the peoples
who
have warred
against
Jerusalem:
Their flesh
will rot
while they
stand
on
their feet,
their eyes
will rot
in their sockets,
and their tongues
will rot
in their mouths.
On that
day
a great
panic
from the LORD
will come upon them,
so that each
will seize
the hand
of another,
and the hand
of one will rise
against
the other.
Judah
will also
fight
at Jerusalem,
and the wealth
of all
the surrounding
nations
will be collected—
gold,
silver,
and apparel
in great abundance.
And a similar
plague
will strike
the horses
and mules,
camels
and donkeys,
and all
the animals
in those
camps.
Then all
the survivors
from
the nations
that came
against
Jerusalem
will go up
year
after year
to worship
the King,
the LORD
of Hosts,
and to celebrate
the Feast
of Tabernacles.
And should any of the families
of the earth
not
go up
to
Jerusalem
to worship
the King,
the LORD
of Hosts,
the rain
will not
fall
on them.
And if
the people
of Egypt
will not
go up
and enter in,
then rain will not
fall on them;
this will be
the plague
the LORD
inflicts
on the nations
who
do not
go up
to celebrate
the Feast
of Tabernacles.
This
will be
the punishment
of Egypt
and of all
the nations
that
do not
go up
to celebrate
the Feast
of Tabernacles.
On that
day,
HOLY
TO THE LORD
will be inscribed
on
the bells
of the horses,
and the cooking pots
in the house
of the LORD
will be
like the sprinkling basins
before
the altar.
Indeed, every
pot
in Jerusalem
and Judah
will be
holy
to the LORD
of Hosts,
and all
who sacrifice
will come
and take
some pots
and cook
in them.
And on that
day
there will no
longer
be
a Canaanite
in the house
of the LORD
of Hosts.