The day of the LORD

¹A day is coming that belongs to the LORD ,

²I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem for the battle,

Half of the city will go forth into exile,

³The LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.

⁴On that day he will stand upon the Mount of Olives, to the east of Jerusalem.

⁵You will flee through the valley of my mountain,

You will flee just as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Judah’s King Uzziah.

⁶On that day, there will be no light.

⁷On one day known to the LORD , there will be neither day nor night,

⁸On that day, running water will flow out from Jerusalem,

⁹The LORD will become king over all the land.

¹⁰The entire land will become like the desert[#14.10 Heb Arabah]

from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem.

Jerusalem will be high up and firmly in place

to the Corner Gate, and from the Hananel Tower to the king’s wine vats.

¹¹People will dwell in it;

¹²This will be the plague with which the

LORD will strike all the peoples who

swarmed against Jerusalem:

¹³On that day, a great panic brought on by the LORD will fall upon them;

¹⁴Even Judah will fight in Jerusalem.

¹⁵This plague will also affect the horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and any cattle in those camps during this plague.[#14.15 Heb lacks ; cf 14:12.]

¹⁶All those left from all the nations who attacked Jerusalem will go up annually to pay homage to the king, the LORD of heavenly forces, and to celebrate the Festival of Booths.

¹⁷Whoever among the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to pay homage to the king, the LORD of heavenly forces, upon them no rain will fall.

¹⁸And if the family of Egypt doesn’t go up and doesn’t present itself, then no rain will fall on them. There will be a plague like the one with which the LORD struck the nations that didn’t go up to celebrate the Festival of Booths.[#14.18 Heb lacks; #14.18 Or will not.]

¹⁹This would be the sin of Egypt and the sin of all the nations who don’t go up to celebrate the Festival of Booths.

²⁰On that day, Holy to the LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses,[#14.20 Heb lacks]

²¹Every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the LORD of heavenly forces.