Zechariah 14:12

This will be the plague with which Yahweh will attack all the peoples that waged war against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot away even as they are standing on their feet. Their eyes will rot in their sockets and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

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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

11The people will live in Jerusalem and there will be no more complete destruction from God against them. Jerusalem will live in safety.

13On that day that great fear from Yahweh will come among them. Each one will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will be raised up against the hand of another.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:16—if you do these things, then I will do this to you: I will inflict terror on you, diseases and fever that will destroy the eyes and will drain away your life. You will plant your seeds for nothing, because your enemies will eat their produce.

Leviticus 26:21If you walk against me and will not listen to me, I will bring seven times more blows on you, in proportion to your sins.

Leviticus 26:28then I will walk against you in anger, and I will punish you even seven more times as much for your sins.

Deuteronomy 28:59then Yahweh will make your plagues terrible, and those of your descendants; they will be great plagues, of long duration, and severe diseases, of long duration.

2 Chronicles 21:18After all this, Yahweh struck him in his intestines with an incurable disease.

Psalms 110:5The Lord is at your right hand. 1 He will kill kings on the day of his anger. 1

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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