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Zechariah 12

Jerusalem to Be Attacked

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The  1burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel.

Thus declares the LORD who  astretches out the heavens,  blays the foundation of the earth, and  cforms the spirit of man within him,

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"Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a  acup  1that causes reeling to all the peoples around; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against  bJudah.

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"It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy  astone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be  bseverely  1injured. And all the  cnations of the earth will be gathered against it.

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"In that day," declares the LORD, "I will strike every horse with bewilderment and his rider with madness. But I will  1watch over the house of Judah, while I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.

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"Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ` 1A strong support for us are the inhabitants of Jerusalem through the LORD of hosts, their God.'

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"In that day I will make the clans of Judah like a  afirepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves, so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples, while the  binhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem.

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"The LORD also will  asave the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of  bDavid and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah.

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"In that day the LORD will  adefend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who  1 bis feeble among them in that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like  cGod, like the  dangel of the LORD before them.

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"And in that day I will  1 aset about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

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"I will  apour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem,  1the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have  bpierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one  cmourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.

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"In that day there will be great  amourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the  1plain of  2Megiddo.

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"The land will mourn, every family by itself; the family of the house of David by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves;

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the family of the house of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself and their wives by themselves;

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all the families that remain, every family by itself and their wives by themselves.



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