1 The burden of the word of Jehovah on Israel; — Say does Jehovah, Who expanded the heavens and founded the earth, And formed the spirit of man within him, —
2 Behold, I make Jerusalem A threshold of bruising to all the people around; And as to Judah, so shall he be During the siege against Jerusalem. (344)
3 It shall also be in that day That I will make Jerusalem A burdensome stone to all people; Whosoever will lift it shall be cut in pieces, Though assembled against it Should be all the nations of the earth. (345)
4 In that day, saith Jehovah, I will smite every horse with stupor, And its rider with madness; and on the house of Judah I will open mine eyes; And every horse of the people Will I smite with blindness:
5 And say will the chiefs of Judah in their hearts, — “Strength to me are the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Through Jehovah of hosts their God.” (349)
6 In that day I will make the chiefs of Judah Like a pot fire among wood; And like a torch of fire in a sheaf, And they shall consume, on the right hand And on the left, all the nations around; And inhabited shall be Jerusalem In her own place, in Jerusalem:
7 And save shall Jehovah The tents of Judah as at the beginning; And thus the honour of the house of David, and the honour of the citizen of Jerusalem, Shall not exult over Judah. (345)
8 In that day Jehovah will protect The inhabitant of Jerusalem; And the feeble among them shall be like David, And the house of David like angels, (357) As the angel of Jehovah before their face.
9 And it shall be in that day, That I will seek to destroy all the nations Who shall come against Jerusalem:
10 And I will pour upon the house of David, And upon the inhabitant of Jerusalem, The spirit of grace and of lamentations; And they shall look to me whom they have pierced: And lament shall they for him, As with a lamentation for an only-begotten; And bitter shall they be for him, As with a bitterness for a first-born.
11 In that day great shall be the lamentation in Jerusalem, Like the lamentation of Hadadrimmon In the valley of Megiddon:
12 And lament shall the land, 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;
13 The family of the house of Levi apart, And their wives apart; The family of Shimei apart; And their wives apart;
14 All the remaining families, Every family apart, And their wives apart;
Chapter 13
1 In that day shall a fountain be opened To the house of David And to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, For expiation and for sprinkling.
2 And it shall be in that day, saith Jehovah, That I will cut off the names of idols from the land, And they shall be remembered no more; And the prophets also and the unclean spirit Will I exterminate from the land.
3 And it shall be, when prophesy yet shall any one, That say to him will his gather and his mother, Who begat him, “Thou shalt not live, For a lie hast thou spoken in Jehovah’s name;” And they shall pierce him, Even his father and his mother who begat him; Because he had prophesied.
4 It shall also be in that day That ashamed shall be the prophets, Every on of his vision, when he has prophesied; And they shall not wear a hairy garment, That they may deceive:
5 But he shall say, “I am not a prophet, A husbandman am I, for man has taught me To be a shepherd from my youth.”
6 When one shall say to him, “Why are these wounds in thine hands?” Then he will say, “Because I have been stricken In the house of my friends.” (393)
7 O sword! awake against my shepherd, And against the man, my associate, Saith Jehovah of hosts: Smite the shepherd, and scattered shall be the sheep; And I will turn my hand to the little ones.
8 And it shall be in all the land, saith Jehovah, That two parts in it shall be cut off — shall die, And that the third shall remain in it:
9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, And will melt them as silver is melted, And try them as gold is tried; They shall call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, “My people are the;” And they will say, “Jehovah is out God.”