The Day of the Lord: Victory, Restoration, and Universal Worship
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Chapter 14
1Look, a day is coming for the LORD, and your spoil will be divided in your midst.2And I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem for war, and the city will be captured and the houses will be plundered and the women will be ravished; and half of the city will go out into exile and the remainder of the people will not be cut off from the city.3And the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as on the day they fought in the day of battle.4And his feet shall stand on that day on the Mount of Olives, which is on the face of Jerusalem to the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in its half eastward and seaward—a very great valley—and from half the mountain northward and its half southward.5And you shall flee to the valley of the mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to beside, and you shall flee just as you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and the LORD your God shall come, all the holy ones with you.6And it will be on that day—there will not be light, preciousnesses, and frost.7And it will be a day—one known to the LORD—not day and not night, and at the time of evening there will be light.8And it will be on that day that living waters will go out from Jerusalem, half to the eastern sea and half to the final sea; in summer and in winter it will be.9And the LORD will be king over all the earth. On that day the LORD will be one, and his name one.10All the earth will be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem, and it will be inhabited from beneath it to the gate of Benjamin, to the place of the first gate, to the gate of the faces, and the tower of Hananel to the winepresses of the king.11And they will dwell in it, and herem will not be anymore, and Jerusalem will dwell securely.12And this will be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples who have mustered against Jerusalem: their flesh—and it standing on their feet, and their eyes melting in their sockets, and their tongue melting in their mouths.13And it will be on that day—there will be a great tumult from the LORD among them, and they will grasp—each man the hand of his neighbor—and his hand will rise against the hand of his neighbor.14And Judah also will fight in Jerusalem, and the wealth of all the nations around—gold and silver and garments in great abundance—will be gathered.15And so the plague of the horse, the mule, the camel, and the donkey, and all the beasts which will be in their camps, will be like this plague.16And it will be that all the remnant from all the nations, the ones coming upon Jerusalem, will go up from year to year to bow down to the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the festival of Succoth.17And it will be that whoever does not go up from the families of the land to Jerusalem to prostrate to the King, the LORD of Heavenly Hosts, on them the rain will not be.18And if the family of Egypt does not go up and does not come, then the plague will not be upon them which the LORD will strike the nations which do not go up to celebrate the festival of the Feast of Booths.19This will be the sin of Egypt and the sin of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the festival of Succoth.20On that day there will be on the bells of the horse "Holiness to the LORD," and the pots will be in the house of the LORD like bowls before the altar.21And it will be that every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the LORD of Hosts, and all who sacrifice will come and take from them and boil in them, and there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of Hosts on that day.