Zechariah 12

massa devar-Adonai al-yisra'el ne'um-Adonai noteh shamayim veyosed arets veyotser ruakh-adam beqirbo

A pronouncement: The word of GOD concerning Israel. The utterance of GOD, Who stretched out the skies And made firm the earth, And created mortals’ breath within them:

hinneh anokhi sam et-yerushalai͏m saf-ra'al lekhol-ha'ammim saviv vegam al-yehudah yihyeh vammatsor al-yerushalai͏m

Behold, I will make Jerusalem a bowl of reeling for the peoples all around. Judah shall be caught up in the siege upon Jerusalem,

vehayah vayyom-hahu asim et-yerushalai͏m even ma'amasah lekhol-ha'ammim kol-omeseha sarot yissaretu vene'esfu aleha kol goye ha'arets

when all the nations of the earth gather against her. In that day, I will make Jerusalem a stone for all the peoples to lift; all who lift it shall injure themselves.

bayyom hahu ne'um-Adonai akkeh khol-sus battimmahon verokhevo bashigga'on ve'al-bet yehudah efqakh et-enay vekhol sus ha'ammim akkeh ba'ivvaron

In that day—declares GOD—I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness. But I will watch over the House of Judah while I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.

ve'ameru allufe yehudah belibbam amtsah li yosheve yerushalai͏m ba-Adonai tseva'ot elohehem

And the clans of Judah will say to themselves, “The dwellers of Jerusalem are a task set for us by their God, GOD of Hosts.”

bayyom hahu asim et-allufe yehudah kekhiyyor esh be'etsim ukhelappid esh be'amir ve'okhlu al-yamin ve'al-semovl et-kol-ha'ammim saviv veyashevah yerushalai͏m od takhteha birushalai͏m

In that day, I will make the clans of Judah like a flaming brazier among sticks and like a flaming torch among sheaves. They shall devour all the besieging peoples right and left; and Jerusalem shall continue on its site, in Jerusalem.

vehoshia Adonai et-ohole yehudah barishonah lema'an lo-tigdal tiferet bet-david vetiferet yoshev yerushalai͏m al-yehudah

GOD will give victory to the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the House of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be too great for Judah.

bayyom hahu yagen Adonai be'ad yoshev yerushalai͏m vehayah hannikhshal bahem bayyom hahu kedavid uvet david kelohim kemalakh Adonai lifnehem

In that day, GOD will shield the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and the feeblest of them shall be in that day like David, and the House of David like a divine being—like an angel of GOD—at their head.

vehayah bayyom hahu avaqqesh lehashmid et-kol-haggoyim habba'im al-yerushalai͏m

In that day I will all but annihilate all the nations that came up against Jerusalem.

veshafakhti al-bet david ve'al yoshev yerushalai͏m ruakh khen vetakhanunim vehibbitu elay et asher-daqaru vesafedu alayw kemisped al-hayyakhid vehamer alayw kehamer al-habbekhor

But I will fill the House of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem with a spirit of pity and compassion; and they shall lament to Me about those who are slain, wailing over them as over a favorite son and showing bitter grief as over a first-born.

bayyom hahu yigdal hammisped birushalai͏m kemispad hadad-rimmon beviqat megiddon

In that day, the wailing in Jerusalem shall be as great as the wailing at Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddon.

vesafedah ha'arets mishpakhot mishpakhot levad mishpakhat bet-david levad uneshehem levad mishpakhat bet-natan levad uneshehem levad

The land shall wail, each family by itself: The family of the House of David by themselves, and their womenfolk by themselves; the family of the House of Nathan by themselves, and their womenfolk by themselves;

mishpakhat bet-levi levad uneshehem levad mishpakhat hashimi levad uneshehem levad

the family of the House of Levi by themselves, and their womenfolk by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by themselves, and their womenfolk by themselves;

kol hammishpakhot hannisharot mishpakhot mishpakhot levad uneshehem levad

and all the other families, every family by itself, with their womenfolk by themselves.