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And they shall say. 'The Lord is my God.'

14Behold, a day of the Lord cometh,

When thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

²For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle;

And the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled,

And the women ravished,

And half of the city shall go forth into captivity,

But the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

³Then shall the Lord go forth,

And fight against those nations,

As when He fighteth in the day of battle.

⁴And His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives,

Which is before Jerusalem on the east,

And the mount of Olives shall be cleft in the midst thereof

Toward the east and toward the west,

So that there shall be a very great valley;

And half of the mountain shall remove toward the north,

And half of it toward the south.

⁵And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains;

For the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azel;

Yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake

In the days of Uzziah king of Judah;

And the Lord my God shall come,

And all the holy ones with Thee.

⁶And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall not be light,

But heavy clouds and thick;

⁷And there shall be one day

Which shall be known as the Lord's,

Not day, and not night;

But it shall come to pass, that at evening time there shall be light.

⁸And it shall come-to pass in that day,

That living waters shall go out from Jerusalem:

Half of them, toward the eastern sea,

And half of them toward the western sea;

In summer and in winter shall it be.

⁹And the Lord shall be King over all the earth;

In that day shall the Lord be One, and His name one.

¹⁰All the land shall be turned as the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel unto the king's winepresses.

¹¹And men shall dwell therein,

And there shall be no more extermination;

But Jerusalem shall dwell safely.

 

¹²And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite

All the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem:

Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,

And their eyes shall consume away in their sockets,

And their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

¹³And it shall come to pass in that day,

That a great tumult from the Lord shall be among them;

And they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour,

And his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

¹⁴And Judah also shall fight against Jerusalem;

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