Zechariah 14:12

And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

Majority Standard Bible

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

11People will live there, and never again will there be an utter destruction. So Jerusalem will dwell securely.

13On that day a great panic from the LORD will come upon them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the other.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:16then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

Leviticus 26:21If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.

Leviticus 26:28then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.

Deuteronomy 28:59He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.

2 Chronicles 21:18After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.

Psalms 110:5The Lord is at Your right hand; He will crush 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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