⁴ On that day,’ declares^[a] Yahweh, ‘I will strike every horse with confusion, and the one riding it with madness; but over the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open,^[b] and I will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. ⁵ And the clans of Judah will say to themselves,^[c] “The inhabitants of Jerusalem are a strength to us,^[d] through Yahweh of hosts, their God.”

⁶ “‘On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a pan of fire among sticks of wood, and like a torch of fire among stalks^[e] of grain, and they will devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, and Jerusalem will be inhabited again in its place, in Jerusalem.