Zechariah 14

1 Look, a day of Jehovah comes, when your spoil will be divided in your midst.

Watch out! For the day of the Lord is coming when what has been plundered from you will be divided up right in front of you.

2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

I will bring together all the nations to attack Jerusalem. The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the population will be taken into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.

3 Then Jehovah will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

Then the Lord will go out to fight against the nations as he fights in times of war.

4 His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which faces Jerusalem to the east. The Mount of Olives will split apart, with half moving north and half moving south, creating a wide valley from east to west.

5 Then you shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then Jehovah my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.

You will run away through this mountain valley for it will reach as far as Azal. You will run away like people did at the time of the earthquake during the reign of Uzzah, king of Judah. Then the Lord will come, accompanied by all his holy ones.

6 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.

On that day there will be no longer cold and frost.

7 It will be a unique day which is known to Jehovah; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.

It will be one continuous day (only the Lord knows how this could happen). It won't be day or night, because in the evening it will still be light.

8 It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.

On that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of it going east to the Dead Sea and half going west to the Mediterranean Sea, flowing in summer and winter alike.

9 Jehovah will be King over all the earth. In that day Jehovah will be one, and his name one.

The Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day there will be one true Lord, and his name the only one.

10 All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon in the Negev. Jerusalem will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses.

The whole land will be transformed into a plain, from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem will be raised up to where it was, and people will live there from the Benjamin Gate to where the old gate was, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses.

11 Men will dwell in it, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely.

It will be inhabited and never again condemned to destruction again—people will be able to live in safety in Jerusalem.

12 This will be the plague with which Jehovah will strike all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.

This will be the plague that the Lord will use to strike all the nations that attacked Jerusalem. Their flesh shall rot while they are still standing on their feet; their eyes will rot in their sockets; their tongues will rot in their mouths.

13 It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Jehovah will be among them; and they will lay hold everyone on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor.

On that day the Lord will strike them with a terrible panic, and they will seize one another, and fight hand-to-hand.

14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.

Even Judah will fight in Jerusalem. The wealth of the surrounding nations shall be collected: lots of gold, silver, and clothes.

15 So will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey, and of all the animals that will be in those camps, as that plague.

A similar plague will strike the horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all other animals that may be in their camps.

16 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, and to keep the feast of booths.

After this every one of the survivors from the nations that attacked Jerusalem will go there to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.

17 It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn't go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, on them there will be no rain.

If any of the peoples of the world refuse to go to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain.

18 If the family of Egypt doesn't go up and enter in, on them will be the plague with which Jehovah will strike the nations that do not go up to keep the feast of booths.

If the Egyptian people refuse to go and attend, then the Lord will inflict on them the same plague as on the other nations who will not go celebrate the Festival of Shelters.

19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to keep the feast of booths.

This will be the punishment on Egypt and all the nations if they do not go to Jerusalem and celebrate.

20 In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, "HOLY TO JEHOVAH;" and the pots in Jehovah's house will be like the bowls before the altar.

On that day the bells worn by horses will be engraved with the words “Holy to the Lord.” The household cooking pots used in the Lord's Temple will be as holy as the bowls used on the altar in the presence of the Lord.

21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Jehovah of hosts; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Jehovah of hosts.

Every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord Almighty, so that everyone who comes to sacrifice can take them and cook their sacrificial meat in them. On that day there will no longer be traders in the Lord's Temple.