Zechariah 12
The Future Deliverance
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In that day will I make the governors
of Judah like a 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.
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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.
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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.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against
Jerusalem.
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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, Joh. 19.37 · Rev. 1.7 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.
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In that day shall there be a great
mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrim'mon in the valley
of Megid'don.
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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;
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the family of the house of Levi apart,
and their wives apart; the family of Shim'-e-i apart, and their
wives apart;
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all the families that remain, every
family apart, and their wives apart.
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