Zechariah 14

14 ¹ Look, a day is coming for our Father, when the plunder taken from you will be divided among you. ² I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle. The city will be captured, the houses plundered, and the women raped. Half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. ³ Then our Father will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle. ⁴ On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a very large valley; half of the mountain will move toward the north and half toward the south. ⁵ And you will flee through the valley of my mountains, for the valley between the mountains will reach to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then my Father will come, and all the holy ones with him.

⁶ On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost. ⁷ It will be a unique day, known only to our Father — neither day nor night; but at evening time there will be light.

⁸ On that day living waters will flow out from Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and half toward the western sea; it will continue in summer and in winter. ⁹ And our Father will be king over all the earth. On that day our Father will be one, and his name one. ^a a v9 Israel's great confession — that our Father is one — here becomes the song of the whole earth: the day when everyone everywhere knows the one Father as king.

¹⁰ The whole land will be transformed into a plain, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem will be raised up and remain on its site, from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses. ¹¹ People will live in it, and never again will it be devoted to destruction; Jerusalem will live in safety.

¹² And this will be the plague with which our Father will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. ¹³ On that day a great panic from our Father will fall on them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the hand of another. ¹⁴ Even Judah will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered — gold, silver, and garments in great abundance. ¹⁵ And a plague like this will fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.

¹⁶ Then all the survivors from the nations that attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Father of heaven's armies, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths. ^b b v16 The Feast of Booths (Sukkot) was a week-long harvest festival in which Israelites lived in temporary shelters to remember God's provision during the wilderness years. ¹⁷ And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Father of heaven's armies, no rain will fall on them. ¹⁸ And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present itself, then no rain will fall on them; the plague will come with which our Father strikes the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. ¹⁹ This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

²⁰ On that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, "Holy to our Father." And the pots in the house of our Father will be like the bowls before the altar. ²¹ And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the Father of heaven's armies, so that all who sacrifice may come and take some of them and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a merchant in the house of the Father of heaven's armies.