Zechariah 12:8-10

Expanded Bible

⁸ ·At that time [^LOn that day] the Lord will ·protect [defend] the people in Jerusalem. Then even the weakest of them will be strong like David. And the ·family [house] of David will be like God, like ·an [or the] angel of the Lord in front of them [Gen. 48:16; Ex. 14:19; 23:20]. ⁹ ·At that time [^LOn that day] I will ·go [set out; begin] to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem.

Crying for the One They Pierced

¹⁰ “I will pour out on ·David’s family [^Lthe house of David] and the ·people in [inhabitants of] Jerusalem a spirit of ·kindness [grace] and ·mercy [prayer; supplication]. They will look at me, the one they have ·stabbed [pierced], and they will ·cry [^Lmourn/lament for him] like someone ·crying [mourning; lamenting] over the death of an only ·child [son]. They will ·be as sad [grieve bitterly] as someone who has lost a firstborn son.