12 A pronouncement:
“The word of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} concerning Isra'Al,” declares Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah},
The One who stretched out the heavens,
Who laid the foundation of the earth,
And who formed the spirit of man within him.
2 “Here I am making Yerushalom a cup that causes all the surrounding peoples to stagger; and there will be a siege against Judah as well as against Yerushalom. 3 In that day I will make Yerushalom a heavy stone to all the peoples. All those who lift it are sure to be severely injured; and all the nations of the earth will be gathered against her. 4 In that day,” declares Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}, “I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness. I will keep my eyes on the house of Judah, but I will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. 5 And the sheikhs of Judah will say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Yerushalom are a strength to me by means of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} of armies their Al {pre. Ahl}.’ 6 In that day I will make the sheikhs of Judah like a fiery pot among wood and like a fiery torch in a row of cut grain, and they will consume all the surrounding peoples on the right and on the left; and Yerushalom will again be inhabited in her place, in Yerushalom.
7 “And Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} will save the tents of Judah first, so that the beauty of the house of David and the beauty of the inhabitants of Yerushalom may not be too great over Judah. 8 In that day Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} will be a defense around the inhabitants of Yerushalom; in that day the one who stumbles among them will be like David, and the house of David like Al {pre. Ahl}, like Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}’s angel who goes before them. 9 And in that day I will be certain to annihilate all the nations that come against Yerushalom.
10 “I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Yerushalom the spirit of favor and supplication, and they will look to the one whom they pierced, and they will wail over him as they would wail over an only son; and they will grieve bitterly over him as they would grieve over a firstborn son. 11 In that day the wailing in Yerushalom will be great, like the wailing at Ha·dad·rimʹmon in the Plain of Me·gidʹdo. 12 And the land will wail, each family by itself; the family of David’s house by itself, and their women by themselves; the family of Nathan’s house by itself, and their women by themselves; 13 the family of Leʹvi’s house by itself, and their women by themselves; the family of the Shimʹe·ites by itself, and their women by themselves; 14 and all the families that are left remaining, each family by itself, and their women by themselves.