the fat ones and a-tear off their hoofs.-a
17Oh, the worthless shepherd
Who abandons the flock!
Let a sword descend upon his arm
And upon his right eye!
His arm shall shrivel up;
His right eye shall go blind.
12 A pronouncement: The word of the LORD concerning Israel.
The utterance of the LORD,
Who stretched out the skies
And made firm the earth,
And created man’s breath within him:
2Behold, I will make Jerusalem a bowl of reeling for the peoples all around. Judah shall be caught up in the siege upon Jerusalem, 3when all the nations of the earth gather against her. In that day, I will make Jerusalem a stone for all the peoples to lift; all who lift it shall injure themselves. 4In that day—declares the LORD—I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness. But I will a-watch over the House of Judah while I strike every horse of-a the peoples with blindness. 5And the clans of Judah will say to themselves, b-“The dwellers of Jerusalem are a task set for us by-b their God, the LORD of Hosts.” 6In that day, I will make the clans of Judah like a flaming brazier among sticks and like a flaming torch among sheaves. They shall devour all the besieging peoples right and left; and Jerusalem shall continue on its site, in Jerusalem.c
7The LORD will give victory to the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the House of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be too great for Judah. 8In that day, the LORD will shield the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and the feeblest of them shall be in that day like David, and the House of David like a divine being—like an angel of the LORD—at their head.
9In that day I will d-all but annihilate-d all the nations that came up against Jerusalem. 10But I will fill the House of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem with a spirit of pity and compassion; and they shall lamente to Me about those who are slain, wailing over them as over a favorite son and showing bitter grief as over a first-born. 11In that day, the wailing in Jerusalem shall be as great as the wailing at Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddon.f 12The land shall wail, each family by itself: The family of the House of David by themselves, and their womenfolk by themselves; the family of the House of Nathan by themselves, and their womenfolk by themselves; 13the family of the House of Levi by themselves, and their womenfolk by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by themselves, and their womenfolk by themselves; 14and all the other families, every family by itself, with their womenfolk by themselves.g
13 In that day a fountain shall be open to the House of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem for purging and cleansing.
2In that day, too—declares the LORD of Hosts—I will erase the very names of the idols from the land; they shall not be uttered any more. And I will also make the “prophets” and the a-unclean spirit-a vanish from the land. 3If anyone “prophesies” thereafter, his own father and mother, who brought him into the world, will say to him, “You shall die, for you have lied in the name of the LORD”; and his own father and mother, who brought him into the world, will put him to death when he “prophesies.” 4In that day, every “prophet” will be ashamed of the “visions” [he had] when he “prophesied.” In order to deceive, heb will not wear a hairy mantle,c 5and he will declare, “I am not a ‘prophet’; d-I am a tiller of the soil;-d you see, e-I was plied with the red stuff-e from my youth on.” 6And if he is asked, “What are those f-sores on your back?”-f he will reply, “From being beaten in the homes of my friends.”g
7hO sword!
Rouse yourself against My shepherd,
The man i-in charge of My flock-i
—says the LORD of Hosts.
Strike down the shepherd
And let the flock scatter;
And I will also turn My hand
Against all the shepherd boys.
8Throughout the land
—declares the LORD—
Two-thirds shall perish, shall die,
And one-third of it shall survive.
9That third I will put into the fire,
And I will smelt them as one smelts silver
And test them as one tests gold.
They will invoke Me by name,
And I will respond to them.
I will declare, “You are My people,”
And they will declare,
“The LORD is our God!”
14 Lo, a day of the LORD is coming when youra spoil shall be divided in your very midst! 2For I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem for war: The city shall be captured, the houses plundered, and the women violated; and a part of the city shall go into exile. But the rest of the population shall not be uprooted from the city.
3Then the LORD will come forth and make war on those nations as He is wont to make war on a day of battle. 4On that day, He will set His feet on the Mount of Olives, near Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives shall split across from east to west, and one part of the Mount shall shift to the north and the other to the south, a huge gorge. 5bAnd the Valley in the Hills shall be stopped up, for the Valley of the Hills shall reach only to Azal; it shall be stopped up as it was stopped up as a result of the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah of Judah.— And the LORD my God, with all the holy beings, will come to you.
6cIn that day, there shall be neither sunlight nor cold moonlight, 7but there shall be a continuous day—only the LORD knows when—of neither day nor night, and there shall be light at eventide.
8In that day, fresh water shall flow from Jerusalem, part of it to the Eastern Sead and part to the Western Sea,e throughout the summer and winter.
9And the LORD shall be king over all the earth; in that day there shall be one LORD with one name.f
10Then the whole country shall become like the Arabah,g h-from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem.-h The latter, however, shall perch high up where it is, and i-shall be inhabited-i from the Gate of Benjamin to the site of the Old Gate, down to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses. 11Never again shall destruction be decreed, and Jerusalem shall dwell secure.
12As for those peoples that warred against Jerusalem, the LORD will smite them with this plague: Their flesh shall rot away while they stand on their feet; their eyes shall rot away in their sockets; and their tongues shall rot away in their mouths.
13In that day, a great panic from the LORD shall fall upon them, and everyone shall snatch at the hand of another, and everyone shall raise his hand against everyone else’s hand. 14Judah shall join the fighting in Jerusalem, and the wealth of all the nations roundabout—vast quantities of gold, silver, and clothing—shall be gathered in.
15The same plague shall strike the horses, the mules, the camels, and the asses; the plague shall affect all the animals in those camps.
16All who survive of all those nations that came up against Jerusalem shall make a pilgrimage year by year to bow low to the King LORD of Hosts and to observe the Feast of Booths. 17Any of the earth’s communities that does not make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem to bow low to the King LORD of Hosts shall receive no rain. 18However, if the community of Egypt does not make this pilgrimage, it shall not be visited by the same affliction with which the LORD will strike the other nations that do not come up to observe the Feast of Booths.j 19Such shall be the punishment of Egypt and of all other nations that do not come up to observe the Feast of Booths.
20In that day, even the bells on the horses shall be inscribed “Holy to the LORD.” The metal pots in the House of the LORD shall be like the basins before the altar; 21indeed, every metal pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holy to the LORD of Hosts. And all those who sacrifice shall come and take of these to boil [their sacrificial meat] in; in that day there shall be no more tradersk in the House of the LORD of Hosts.

a A clause like “Say to the people” is here understood; cf. 7.5.
b-b Septuagint reads “between the mountains”; cf. 6.1. In 6.1 ff. four teams of horses leave the LORD’s abode to roam the four quarters of the earth; in 1.8 ff. they are about to reenter His abode after such a reconnaisance.
c Septuagint adds “dappled”; cf. 6.3.
d Meaning of Heb. uncertain. Emendation yields “black”; cf. 6.2.
e Upheavals at the start of Darius’ reign had encouraged hopes of an early restoration of the Davidic dynasty (cf. Hag. 2.21 ff.). Now these hopes were dashed.
a The four horns correspond to the four winds of v. 10.
b-b Meaning of Heb. uncertain; emendation yields “to sharpen ax heads.”
c-c Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
d-d Emendation yields “whose Presence sent me.”
e-e According to ancient Jewish tradition, a scribal change for “My.”
f Heb. “My.”
g Heb. “I.”
h-h Emendation yields “allot to Judah its portion”; cf. Num. 34.17.
a Others “Satan.”
b Joshua’s father (Hag. 1.1; 1 Chron. 5.40–41) was exiled and his grandfather executed (2 Kings 25.18–21) by the Babylonians, but Joshua returned.
c Heb. “I.”
d I.e., ritually pure.
e Joshua has now been rendered fit to associate with the heavenly beings (v. 7); cf. Isa. 6.6–8.
f I.e., the future king of David’s