Zechariah 14:12

And this shall be the plague where with the Lord shall strike all nations that have fought against Jerusalem: the flesh of every one shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

In Context

11And people shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more an anathema: but Jerusalem shall sit secure.

13In that day there shall be a great tumult from the Lord among them: and a man shall take the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall be clasped upon his neighbour's hand.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:16I also will do these things to you: I will quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and consume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured by your enemies.

Leviticus 26:21If you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you for your sins:

Leviticus 26:28I will also go against you with opposite fury, and I will chastise you with seven plagues for your sins,

Deuteronomy 28:59The Lord shall increase thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed, plagues great and lasting, infirmities grievous and perpetual.

2 Chronicles 21:18And besides all this the Lord struck him with an incurable disease in his bowels.

Psalms 110:5The Lord at thy right hand hath broken kings in the day of his wrath.

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 14:9-16

Blessings Promised to the Church; Judgments Threatened. ( b. c. 500.) 8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. 9 And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord , and his name one. 10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from… Read the whole commentary →

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