| Chapter 12
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1 | The
burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth
forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the
spirit of man within him. |
2
| Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the
people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and
against Jerusalem. |
3 |
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all
that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of
the earth be gathered together against it. |
4 | In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every
horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes
upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with
blindness. |
5 | And
the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem
shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God. |
6 | In that day will I make the
governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of
fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right
hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place,
even in Jerusalem. |
7 |
The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the
house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify
themselves against Judah. |
8
| In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and
he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of
David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. |
9 | And it shall come to pass in
that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against
Jerusalem. |
10 |
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they
have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son,
and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his
firstborn. |
11 | In
that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of
Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. |
12 | And the land shall mourn, 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 families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart. |
