1A day of the Lord is coming Is 39:6; Jr 7:32; Am 9:13 when your plunder will be divided in your presence.

2I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle. Jl 3:2; Zch 12:2-3 The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.

3Then the Lord will go out to fight against those nations as He fights on a day of battle. Rv 19:11-21

4On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Ezk 11:23; Mt 24:3; Ac 1:11-12 which faces Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in half from east to west, forming a huge valley, so that half the mountain will move to the north and half to the south.

5You will flee by My mountain valley, Some Hb mss, LXX, Sym, Tg read You will be blocked — the valley of My mountains — for the valley of the mountains will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled LXX reads It will be blocked as it was blocked from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Am 1:1 Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones Dt 33:2-3; Ps 89:5,7; Dn 7:21; Jd 14 with Him. Some Hb mss, LXX, Vg, Tg, Syr; other Hb mss read you Ps 89:5-7; Mt 25:31

6On that day there will be no light; the sunlight and moonlight Lit light; the precious things will diminish. LXX, Sym, Syr, Tg, Vg read no light or cold or ice Is 13:10; Jl 2:10; 3:15

7It will be a day known only to Yahweh, Mt 24:36 without day or night, but there will be light at evening.

8On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, Ezk 41:7; 47:1-12; Jl 3:18; Rv 8:8-9; 16:3 half of it toward the eastern sea = the Dead Sea and the other half toward the western sea, = the Mediterranean Sea in summer and winter alike.

9On that day Yahweh will become King over all the earth Mt 25:31 — Yahweh alone, and His name alone. Dt 4:35,39; 6:4; Is 45:5

10All the land from Geba 2Kg 23:8 to Rimmon Neh 11:29 south of Jerusalem will be changed into a plain. But Jerusalem will be raised up and will remain Or will be inhabited on its site from the Benjamin Gate Jr 37:13 to the place of the First Gate, Or the former gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses. Neh 3:1; 12:39; Jr 31:38-40

11People will live there, and never again will there be a curse of complete destruction. So Jerusalem will dwell in security.

12This will be the plague the Lord strikes all the peoples with, who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

13On that day a great panic from the Lord will be among them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the other.

14Judah will also fight at Jerusalem, and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected: gold, silver, and clothing in great abundance. Mc 4:13; Hg 2:7

15The same plague as the previous one will strike Lit be on the horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the animals that are in those camps.

16Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, and to celebrate the Festival of Booths. Lv 23:33-36

17Should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, rain will not fall on them.

18And if the people Lit family of Egypt will not go up and enter, then rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague the Lord inflicts on the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Booths.

19This will be the punishment of Egypt and all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Booths.

20On that day, the words