Zechariah 12

1 oracle word LORD upon Israel utterance LORD to stretch heaven and to found land: country/planet and to form: formed spirit man in/on/with entrails: among his

A prophecy: This message came from the Lord concerning Israel, a declaration of the Lord who spread out the heavens, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who placed the breath of life within human beings.

2 behold I to set: make [obj] Jerusalem basin reeling to/for all [the] people around and also upon Judah to be in/on/with siege upon Jerusalem

Look! I am going to make Jerusalem like a cup containing alcoholic drink that will make all the surrounding nations stagger like drunks when they come to attack Judah and Jerusalem.

3 and to be in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to set: make [obj] Jerusalem stone burden to/for all [the] people all to lift her to incise to incise and to gather upon her all nation [the] land: country/planet

On that day I will make Jerusalem like a heavy rock to all peoples. Anyone who tries to lift the rock will injure themselves badly. All the nations will join together to attack Jerusalem.

4 in/on/with day [the] he/she/it utterance LORD to smite all horse in/on/with bewilderment and to ride his in/on/with madness and upon house: household Judah to open [obj] eye my and all horse [the] people to smite in/on/with blindness

On that day I will make every horse panic-stricken and every rider go mad, declares the Lord, but I will watch over the people of Judah while I blind all the horses of their enemies.

5 and to say chief Judah in/on/with heart their strength to/for me to dwell Jerusalem in/on/with LORD Hosts God their

Then the families of Judah will say to themselves, the people of Jerusalem are strong in their God, the Lord Almighty.

6 in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to set: make [obj] chief Judah like/as basin fire in/on/with tree: wood and like/as torch fire in/on/with sheaf and to eat upon right and upon left [obj] all [the] people around and to dwell Jerusalem still underneath: stand her in/on/with Jerusalem

On that day I will make the families of Judah like burning coals in a wood, like a flaming torch in a field of straw. They will burn up to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while the people of Jerusalem will live safely in their city.

7 and to save LORD [obj] tent Judah in/on/with first because not to magnify beauty house: household David and beauty to dwell Jerusalem upon Judah

The Lord will give the victory to the soldiers of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not be greater than that of Judah.

8 in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to defend LORD about/through/for to dwell Jerusalem and to be [the] to stumble in/on/with them in/on/with day [the] he/she/it like/as David and house: household David like/as God like/as messenger: angel LORD to/for face: before their

On that day the Lord will place a shield around the people of Jerusalem so that even the clumsiest of them will be as skilled a warrior as David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord who leads them.

9 and to be in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to seek to/for to destroy [obj] all [the] nation [the] to come (in): come upon Jerusalem

On that day I will start destroying all those nations that attack Jerusalem.

10 and to pour: pour upon house: household David and upon to dwell Jerusalem spirit favor and supplication and to look to(wards) me [obj] which to pierce and to mourn upon him like/as mourning upon [the] only and to provoke upon him like/as to provoke upon [the] firstborn

I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They will look at me whom they pierced, and they will wail in grief over him, mourning as for an only child, weeping bitterly as for a firstborn.

11 in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to magnify [the] mourning in/on/with Jerusalem like/as mourning Hadad-rimmon Hadad-rimmon in/on/with valley Megiddo

On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning in Hadad-Rimmon in the valley of Megiddo.

12 and to mourn [the] land: country/planet family family to/for alone family house: household David to/for alone and woman: wife their to/for alone family house: household Nathan to/for alone and woman: wife their to/for alone

The land will mourn, every family alone: the family house of David alone and their women by themselves, the families of Nathan,

13 family house: household Levi to/for alone and woman: wife their to/for alone family [the] Shimeite to/for alone and woman: wife their to/for alone

Levi, and Shimei—

14 all [the] family [the] to remain family family to/for alone and woman: wife their to/for alone

and all the surviving families and their women, each group mourning alone by themselves.