King James Version
Zechariah 12
Zechariah in the King James Version. Each verse number opens that verse. Study, in the row above the verse, opens the Hebrew, the notes, the other translations, and the connections.
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The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. -
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Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. -
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And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. -
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In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness. -
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And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God. -
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In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. -
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The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah. -
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In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. -
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. -
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Translation Note
The King James reads “they shall look upon me whom they have pierced.” The 1917 Jewish Publication Society reads “they shall look unto Me because they have thrust him through.” Brenton reads “they shall look upon me, because they have mocked me.” The Hebrew verb is דָּקָרוּ, “they pierced,” with a first person “me” and then “they shall mourn for him.”
The Jewish Publication Society keeps “unto Me” and then “thrust him through,” so the one pierced is “him.” The King James keeps “me whom they have pierced.” Brenton’s Greek says they mocked me. Christians read the piercing as the crucifixion of Jesus, and the “me” as the LORD who speaks. The one pierced is God the Son.
King James Version. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Jewish Publication Society (1917). “and they shall look unto Me because they have thrust him through; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son.”
Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English. “and they shall look upon me, because they have mocked me, and they shall make lamentation for him, as for a beloved friend.”
Septuagint, Brenton’s Greek (1851). καὶ ἐπιβλέψονται πρὸς μὲ, ἀνθʼ ὧν κατωρχήσαντο· καὶ κόψονται ἐπʼ αὐτὸν κοπετόν.
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. -
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In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. -
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And the land shall mourn, every 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; -
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The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; -
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All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
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