Zechariah 12

Revised Geneva Translation

12 “The burden of the Word of the LORD upon Israel,” says the LORD, “Who spread the heavens and laid the foundation of the Earth and formed the spirit of man within him:

² “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of poison to all the people, all around. And it will also be with Judah in the siege against Jerusalem.

³ “And on that day, I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all people. All who lift it up shall be torn, though all the people of the Earth are gathered together against it.

⁴ “On that day,” says the LORD, “I will strike every horse with astonishment, and its rider with madness. And I will open My Eyes upon the House of Judah and will strike every horse of the people with blindness.

⁵ “And the princes of Judah shall say in their hearts, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength’ in the LORD of Hosts their God.

⁶ “On that day, I will make the princes of Judah like coals of fire among the wood, and like a firebrand in the sheaf. And they shall devour all the people all around on the right hand and on the left. And Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, in Jerusalem.

⁷ “The LORD shall also preserve the tents of Judah, as before. Therefore, the glory of the House of David shall not boast, nor the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem against Judah.

⁸ “On that day, the LORD shall defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And on that day, he who is feeble among them shall be the same as David. And the House of David shall be like God’s house, and as the Angel of the LORD before them.

⁹ “And on that day, I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

¹⁰ “And I will pour the Spirit of grace and of compassion upon the House of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And they shall look upon Me, Whom they have pierced. And they shall lament for Him, as one mourns for his only son, and be sorry for him as one is sorry for his firstborn.

¹¹ “On that day, there shall be great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadad Rimmon in the valley of Megiddo.

¹² “And the land shall mourn every family by itself: the family of the House of David by itself and their wives by themselves, the family of the House of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves,

¹³ “the family of the House of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves, the family of Shemei by itself and their wives by themselves,

¹⁴ “all the families that remain, every family by itself and their wives by themselves.”