Jerusalem the centre of trouble in the last days, its deliverance
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📚The burden✭ of the word of the LORD for Israel: The LORD speaks, he who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundation of the earth, and who forms the spirit of man within him: 2 📚“See, I will make Jerusalem a cup✭ of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, when they besiege both Judah and Jerusalem. 3 📚And in that day✭ I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all peoples. All who try to lift it will be cut in pieces, when all the peoples of the earth are gathered together around it. 4 📚✭In that day, says the LORD, I will strike every horse with confusion, and his rider with madness. And I will keep watchful eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse✭ of the nations with blindness. 5 📚✭And the leaders of Judah will say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.’6 📚“In that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a fire pot in a woodpile and like a fiery torch among the sheaves✭, and they will consume all the surrounding peoples, on the right and on the left, while Jerusalem is again inhabited in her own place, in Jerusalem.
7 📚“The LORD will also save the tents of Judah✭ first, so that the glory of the house of David✭ and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be greater than that of Judah. 8 📚In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who is feeble among them on that day will be like David✭, and the house of David will be like God✭, like the angel of the LORD✭ before them✭. 9 📚And this will happen in that day: I will set out to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Israel’s repentance and lament about Christ
10 📚✭“And I will pour out on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit✭ of grace and supplication. And they will look on me✭ whom they have pierced✭, and will mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will weep✭ bitterly for him, as one weeps bitterly for his firstborn. 11 📚In that day✭ there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadad-Rimmon in the valley of Megiddon✭. 12 📚And the land✭ will mourn, each family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family✭ of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; 13 📚the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; 14 📚of all the remaining families each family apart, and their wives apart.