Zechariah 12
12
Judah’s Security
1An Oracle
The word of the Lord concerning Israel.
A declaration of the Lord,
who stretched out the heavens, # Is 45:12; 51:13; Jr 10:12; 51:15
laid the foundation of the earth, # Jb 38:4; Heb 1:10
and formed the spirit of man within him.
2“Look, I will make Jerusalem a cup that causes staggering # Is 51:22-23; Jr 25:15-16; Rv 16:19 for the peoples who surround the city. The siege against Jerusalem will also involve Judah. # Jr 4:16; Ezk 38:8-9,14-16; Zch 14:2 3On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who try to lift it will injure themselves severely when all the nations of the earth gather against her. # Jl 3:1-2 4On that day” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness. # Dt 28:28 I will keep a watchful eye on # Is 37:17; Jr 32:19 the house of Judah but strike all the horses of the nations with blindness. 5Then each of the leaders of Judah will think to himself: The residents of Jerusalem are my strength through the Lord of Hosts, their God. 6On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, # Jr 5:14; Ob 18 like a flaming torch among sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right and the left, while Jerusalem continues to be inhabited on its site, in Jerusalem. 7The Lord will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of David’s house and the glory of Jerusalem’s residents may not be greater than that of Judah. 8On that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, # 2Kg 19:34; 20:6; Is 37:35; 38:6; Zch 9:15 so that on that day the one who is weakest among them will be like David on that day, and the house of David will be like God, like the Angel of the Lord, before them. # Lv 26:8; Jos 23:10 9On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Mourning for the Pierced One
10“Then I will pour out a spirit # Or out the Spirit # Is 44:3; Ezk 36:27; 39:29; Jl 2:28-29; Zch 4:6; Ac 2:17 of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at # Or to Me whom they pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for Him as one weeps for a firstborn. # Jr 6:26; Jn 19:37; Rv 1:7 11On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12The land will mourn, every family by itself: the family of David’s house by itself and their women by themselves; the family of Nathan’s # = a son of David # 2Sm 5:14; Lk 3:31 house by itself and their women by themselves; 13the family of Levi’s house by itself and their women by themselves; the family of Shimei # = a descendant of Levi # Ex 6:17; Nm 3:18; 1Ch 6:17 by itself and their women by themselves; 14all the remaining families, every family by itself, and their women by themselves.
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Zecharyah 12
12
1The burden of the Devar Hashem concerning Yisroel, saith Hashem, who stretcheth forth Shomayim, and layeth the yesod aretz, and formeth the ruach adam within him.
2Hinei, I will make Yerushalayim a cup of reeling unto kol ha'amim (all the peoples) round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Yehudah and against Yerushalayim.
3And on Yom HaHu will I make Yerushalayim an even ma'amasah (a burdensome stone) for kol ha'amim: all that burden themselves with it#12:3 i.e., try to lift it shall be cut in pieces, though kol Goyei Ha'Aretz be gathered together against her.
4In Yom HaHu, saith Hashem, I will strike every sus with panic, and his rider with madness; and I will open mine eyes upon the Bais Yehudah, and will strike every sus of the people with blindness.
5And the Aluphei Yehudah (leaders of Yehudah) shall say in their lev, The yoshvei Yerushalayim are my strength in Hashem Tzva'os Eloheihem.
6In Yom HaHu will I make the Aluphei Yehudah like a fire pot in the woods, and like a torch of eish in the omer (sheaves); and they shall devour kol haAm round about, on the right hand and on the left; and Yerushalayim shall be inhabited again in her own site, even in Yerushalayim.
7 Hashem also shall save the oholei Yehudah (tents of Yehudah) first, that the glory of the Bais Dovid and the glory of the inhabitants of Yerushalayim do not magnify themselves against Yehudah.
8In Yom Hahu shall Hashem defend the inhabitants of Yerushalayim; and he that is feeble among them in Yom Hahu shall be like Dovid; and the Bais Dovid shall be like Elohim, like the Malach Hashem before them.
9And it shall come to pass in Yom Hahu, that I will seek to destroy kol HaGoyim that attack Yerushalayim.
10And I will pour upon the Bais Dovid, and upon the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, the Ruach (Spirit) of Chen (grace) and of Tachanunim (supplications for favor); and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced,#12:10 dakar, “pierce through” cf. Isa 53:5; Targum HaShivim Ps 22:17 and they shall mourn for Him (Moshiach) as one mourneth for his yachid (only son), and shall grieve in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his bechor (firstborn).
11In Yom Hahu shall there be a great mourning in Yerushalayim, as the mourning of Hadad-Rimmon in the valley of Megiddo.
12And ha'aretz shall mourn, all mishpochot apart; the mishpachat Bais Dovid apart, and their wives apart; the mishpachat Bais Natan apart, and their wives apart;#12:12 2Sm 5:14
13The mishpachat Bais Levi apart, and their wives apart; the mishpachat Shime'i apart, and their wives apart;#12:13 Num 3:17-18,21
14All the mishpochot that remain, all mishpochot apart, and their wives apart.
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