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Zechariah 12:1 (NIV)

A prophecy: the word of the Lord concerning Israel.

The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth,
and who forms the human spirit within a person, declares:

 

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Zechariah 12:2 (NIV)

2 ‘I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem.

 

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Zechariah 12:3 (NIV)

3 On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the
nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.

 

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Zechariah 12:4 (NIV)

4 On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness,’ declares the Lord. ‘I will keep a watchful eye over Judah,
but I will blind all the horses of the nations.

 

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Zechariah 12:5 (NIV)

5 Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, “The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God.”

 

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Zechariah 12:6 (NIV)

6 ‘On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a brazier in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume
all the surrounding peoples right and left, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.

 

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Zechariah 12:7 (NIV)

7 ‘The Lord will save the dwellings of Judah first, so that the honour of the house of David and of Jerusalem’s inhabitants
may not be greater than that of Judah.

 

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Zechariah 12:8 (NIV)

8 On that day the Lord will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house
of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord going before them.

 

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Zechariah 12:9 (NIV)

9 On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem.

 

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Zechariah 12:10 (NIV)

10 ‘And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication.
They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and
grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

 

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Zechariah 12:11 (NIV)

11 On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be as great as the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

 

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Zechariah 12:12 (NIV)

12 The land will mourn, each clan by itself, with their wives by themselves: the clan of the house of David and their wives,
the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives,

 

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Zechariah 12:13 (NIV)

13 the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives,

 

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Zechariah 12:14 (NIV)

14 and all the rest of the clans and their wives.

 

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Zechariah 13:1 (NKJV)

“In that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

 

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Zechariah 13:2 (NKJV)

2 “It shall be in that day,” says the Lord of hosts, “that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they shall no longer
be remembered. I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart from the land.

 

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Zechariah 13:3 (NKJV)

3 It shall come to pass that if anyone still prophesies, then his father and mother who begot him will say to him, ‘You shall not
live, because you have spoken lies in the name of the Lord.’ And his father and mother who begot him shall thrust him through
when he prophesies.

 

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Zechariah 13:4 (NKJV)

4 “And it shall be in that day that every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they will not wear a robe
of coarse hair to deceive.

 

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Zechariah 13:5 (NKJV)

5 But he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a farmer; for a man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.’

 

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Zechariah 13:6 (NKJV)

6 And one will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your arms?’ Then he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded
in the house of my friends.’