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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Zechariah 12 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/zechariah/12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/zechariah/12-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Zechariah 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../zechariah/11.htm" title="Zechariah 11">◄</a> Zechariah 12 <a href="../zechariah/13.htm" title="Zechariah 13">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/zechariah/12.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> Will Give Salvation</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The oracle of the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> concerning Israel: Thus declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>On that day, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, their God.’</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>On that day the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, going before them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.</p> <p class="heading">Him Whom They Have Pierced</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The land shall mourn, each family<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or clan; throughout verses 12-14">a</a></sup></span> by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> Or <i>clan</i>; throughout verses 12 - 14<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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