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          DASV: Zechariah 12

1 An oracle: the word of the LORD concerning Israel.
This is what the LORD says, who stretched out the heavens, and
laid the foundation of the earth, and formed the spirit of
humans within them:
2 "Look, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup that causes
staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of
Jerusalem will extend to include Judah also.
3 On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the
peoples. Everyone trying to lift it will be severely injured.
But all the nations of the earth will be gathered together
against it.
4 On that day," says the LORD, "I will smite every horse with
panic, and its rider with insanity; yet I will watch over the
house of Judah, but will strike every horse of the nations with
blindness.
5 The clans of Judah will say in their heart, 'The inhabitants
of Jerusalem have strength through the LORD of hosts, their God.'

6 On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot
among the wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will
devour all the surrounding nations, on the right hand and on
the left. Then Jerusalem will again be inhabited in its own
place, even in Jerusalem.
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 be greater than that of Judah.
8 On that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
so that the one who is weakest among them will have prowess like
David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel
of the LORD leading them.
9 On that day, I will seek to destroy all the nations that come
against Jerusalem.

10 Then I will pour the spirit of grace and supplication on the
house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so they
will look on me, the one whom they have pierced. They will
mourn for him, as one mourns for an only son, and will grieve
bitterly for him, as one bitterly grieving over a firstborn
child.
11 On that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as
the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
12 Then 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,
13 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,
14 all the families that remain, every family by itself, and
their wives by themselves."
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