On that day the lamentation in Jerusalem will be as great as the lamentation at Hadad-Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

It will happen in all the land, says the Lord, that two-thirds of the people in it will be cut off and die, but one-third will be left in it.

It will happen in one day (a day known to the Lord); not in the day or the night, but in the evening there will be light.

Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah will become holy in the sight of the Lord who rules over all, so that all who offer sacrifices may come and use some of them to boil their sacrifices in them. On that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord who rules over all.

(2:5) I looked again, and there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.

Thus I will strengthen them by my power, and they will walk about in my name,” says the Lord.

He replied, “To build a temple for her in the land of Babylonia. When it is finished, she will be placed there in her own residence.”

A mongrel people will live in Ashdod, for I will greatly humiliate the Philistines.

Then I cut the second staff “Binders” in two in order to annul the covenant of brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

Moreover, on that day living waters will flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea; it will happen both in summer and in winter.

Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood there before the angel.

Ask the Lord for rain in the season of the late spring rains – the Lord who causes thunderstorms – and he will give everyone showers of rain and green growth in the field.

On that day the bells of the horses will bear the inscription “Holy to the Lord.” The cooking pots in the Lord’s temple will be as holy as the bowls in front of the altar.

Be silent in the Lord’s presence, all people everywhere, for he is being moved to action in his holy dwelling place.

And I will bring them to settle within Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and righteousness.’

I will take away their abominable religious practices; then those who survive will become a community of believers in our God, like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.

so, to the contrary, I have planned in these days to do good to Jerusalem and Judah – do not fear!

On that day there will be no light – the sources of light in the heavens will congeal.

A day of the Lord is about to come when your possessions will be divided as plunder in your midst.

Then the Lord will go to battle and fight against those nations, just as he fought battles in ancient days.