1 See, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be shared out right in your midst.
2 I will bring all the nations together to fight against Jerusalem; the city will be captured, the houses looted and the women violated. Half the city will go into exile, but the remainder of the people will not be removed from the city.
3 Then the LORD will march out and do battle with those nations, as he fights in the day of war.
4 On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem to the east, and the Mount of Olives will be torn apart down the middle from east to west, making a vast valley; half of the mountain will shift to the north and half to the south.
5 You will run away through the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains will stretch as far as Azal; you will run as you ran from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.
6 On that day there will be no light; the bright ones will congeal.
7 It will be one continuous day, known to the LORD, not day and not night; and when evening comes, there will be light.
8 On that day fresh running water will go out from Jerusalem, half toward the eastern sea and half toward the western sea, summer and winter alike.
9 The LORD will be King over the whole earth; on that day the LORD will be one, and his name one.
10 All the land from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, will be leveled like the Arabah, but Jerusalem will rise high and stay where she is, from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.
11 People will make their homes in her; never again will she be under a decree of utter destruction, and Jerusalem will live in safety.
12 This is the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples who fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will waste away as they stand on their feet, their eyes will waste away in their sockets, and their tongues will waste away in their mouths.
13 On that day the LORD will throw them into great confusion; each man will grab his neighbor's hand, and they will raise their hands against one another.
14 Judah too will fight in Jerusalem, and the riches of all the surrounding nations will be gathered up: gold, silver and clothing in vast amounts.
15 A plague of the same kind will strike the horses, mules, camels and donkeys, and every animal in those camps.
16 Then all the survivors from every nation that attacked Jerusalem will go up each year to bow down to the King, the LORD of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
17 Should any of the clans of the earth fail to go up to Jerusalem to bow down to the King, the LORD of hosts, no rain will fall on them.
18 And if the clan of Egypt does not go up and come, they will get no rain either; the plague will fall on them with which the LORD strikes the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
19 Such will be the penalty for Egypt's sin and for the sin of every nation that does not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
20 On that day the horses' bells will carry the words "Holy to the LORD," and the cooking pots in the LORD's house will be like the sprinkling bowls in front of the altar.
21 Every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the LORD of hosts; all who offer sacrifice will come, take some of them and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be any Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.