12:1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the
LORD, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the
foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within
him.
12:2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the
people around, when they shall be in the siege both against
Judah [and] against Jerusalem.
12:3 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 assembled
against it.
12:4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with
astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open my
eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the
people with blindness.
12:5 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.
12:6 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 around, on the
right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited
again in her own place, [even] in Jerusalem.
12:7 The LORD also will save the tents of Judah first, that the
glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of
Jerusalem may not magnify [themselves] against Judah.
12:8 In that day will 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.
12:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will seek
to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
12:10 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] first-born.
12:11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem,
as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
12:12 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;
12:13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives
apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
12:14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and
their wives apart.
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