Dual PanelJerusalem a centre of worship for all
1AN oracle. This is the word of the LORD about Israel, the word of the LORD who spread out the heavens and founded the earth, and who formed the spirit in mortals.
2I am about to make Jerusalem an intoxicating cup for all the nations pressing round her; and Judah will be caught up in the siege of Jerusalem.
3On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered to attack her, I shall make Jerusalem a rock too heavy for any people to remove, and all who try to carry it will be torn by it.
4On that day, says the LORD, I shall strike all their horses with panic and the riders with madness; I shall keep watch over Judah, while I strike with blindness all the horses of the other nations.
5Then the families of Judah will say in their hearts, “The inhabitants of Jerusalem find their strength in the LORD of Hosts, their God.”
6On that day I shall make the families of Judah like a burning brazier in woodland, like a burning torch among the sheaves. They will consume all the surrounding nations, right and left, while the people of Jerusalem remain safe in their city.
7The LORD will set free all the families of Judah first, so that the glory of David's line and of the citizens of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah.
8On that day the LORD will shield the inhabitants of Jerusalem; on that day the weakest of them will be like David, and the line of David godlike, like the angel of the LORD going before them.
9On that day I shall set about the destruction of every nation that attacks Jerusalem,
10but I shall pour a spirit of pity and compassion on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Then they will look on me, on him whom they have pierced, and will lament over him as over an only child, and will grieve for him bitterly as for a firstborn son.
11On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning over Hadad-rimmon in the vale of Megiddo.
12The land will mourn, each family by itself: the family of David by itself and its women by themselves; the family of Nathan by itself and its women by themselves;
13the family of Levi by itself and its women by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself and its women by themselves;
14all the remaining families by themselves and their women by themselves.