Zechariah 12:8

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In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and David’s house will be like God, like Yahweh’s angel before them.

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5The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Armies their God.’

6In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem) will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.

7Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah) first, that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.

8In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David), and David’s house will be like God, like Yahweh’s angel before them.

9It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

10I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

11In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

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