Zechariah 12:1-3

Modern English Version

The Deliverance of Judah

12 The oracle of the word of the Lord against Israel.

Thus says the Lord, the One who stretches out the heavens and establishes the earth and forms the spirit of man within him: ² I am going to make Jerusalem a cup of reeling before all the surrounding nations. And when there is a siege against Judah, it is also against Jerusalem. ³ And it will be on that day that I will set Jerusalem as a weighty stone to all the peoples. All who carry it will surely gash themselves, and all the nations of the land will be gathered against it.