Sacharja 14 | Bibelen på hverdagsdansk

Herren skal herske

1 Der vil komme en tid,* hvor Herren vil samle nationerne til en sidste kamp mod Jerusalem. Byen vil blive indtaget, husene plyndret, kvinderne voldtaget og halvdelen af befolkningen sendt i eksil, mens den anden halvdel bliver i byen.

3 Men da vil Herren skride til handling og nedkæmpe de fjendtlige nationer, sådan som han gjorde i gamle dage.

4 Når han sætter sine fødder på Olivenbjerget øst for Jerusalem, vil det kløves midt igennem fra øst til vest. Bjergets ene halvdel vil bevæge sig mod nord og den anden halvdel mod syd, så der dannes en stor dal imellem dem.

5 Gennem den dal skal I undslippe, for den når hele vejen til Atzal.* I skal flygte, som man flygtede for jordskælvet på kong Uzzija af Judas tid. Da skal Herren, vores Gud, komme, og han har sine hellige med.*

6 Til den tid skal det naturlige lys forsvinde, for de mægtige lysgivere på himlen skal smelte.

7 Det bliver helt enestående, og kun Herren ved, hvornår det vil ske. Der skal ikke længere være dag og nat, for om aftenen vil det være lige så lyst som midt på dagen.

8 Til den tid skal der strømme livgivende vand ud fra Jerusalem, dels i retning af Dødehavet, dels i retning af Middelhavet, og vandet skal strømme både sommer og vinter.

9 Da skal Herren være konge over hele jorden, og alle skal erkende, at der ikke er nogen anden Gud.

10 Hele landet fra Geba i nord til Rimmon i syd skal sænkes, så det bliver en mægtig slette, men Jerusalem skal ligge hævet derover og dække arealet fra Benjamins Port over til den gamle port og videre til Hjørneporten og Hananeltårnet og til de kongelige vinperser.

11 Da kan de bo trygt i byen, for den vil aldrig igen opleve Guds straf og blive ødelagt.

12 Herren vil sende en plage over de folk, som drog i krig mod Jerusalem. De bliver som omvandrende lig. Deres krop begynder at rådne, mens de endnu er i live, øjnene rådner i øjenhulerne, og tungen rådner i munden på dem.

13 De bliver så panikslagne, at de griber fat i hinanden og hugger hinanden ned.

14 Hele Judas befolkning skal gå ind i kampen for at forsvare Jerusalem. De skal tage rigt bytte fra deres fjender, mængder af guld, sølv og fornemt tøj.

15 Fjendernes heste, muldyr, kameler, æsler og alt deres kvæg skal rammes af den samme frygtelige plage.

16 Men de overlevende fra de nationer, der angreb Jerusalem, skal nu hvert år tage derhen for at tilbede Kongen, den almægtige Herre, og fejre løvhyttefesten.

17 Hvis nogen nægter at komme til Jerusalem for at tilbede Kongen, den almægtige Herre, vil de blive nægtet regn i deres land.

18 Og hvis Egypten nægter at komme, vil Gud straffe landet med en ny plage.

19 Sådan vil Herren straffe både Egypten og alle andre nationer, som ikke vil drage op for at fejre løvhyttefesten.

20 Til den tid skal hestenes bjælder have følgende indskrift: „Indviet til Herren!” Kødgryderne i Herrens tempel skal være lige så hellige som alterets offerskåle.

21 Ja, hver eneste gryde i hele Jerusalem og Juda skal være indviet til Herren og til fri disposition for enhver, som kommer for at ofre til Herren. Og der skal ikke mere være nogen, der driver handel i Herrens tempel.

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English Standard Version

The Coming Day of the Lord

1 Behold, a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst.

2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

3 Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.

4 On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward.

5 And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.*

6 On that day there shall be no light, cold, or frost.*

7 And there shall be a unique* day, which is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but at evening time there shall be light.

8 On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea* and half of them to the western sea.* It shall continue in summer as in winter.

9 And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be one and his name one.

10 The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.

11 And it shall be inhabited, for there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction.* Jerusalem shall dwell in security.

12 And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

13 And on that day a great panic from the Lord shall fall on them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other.

14 Even Judah will fight at Jerusalem.* And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance.

15 And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and whatever beasts may be in those camps.

16 Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.

17 And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, there will be no rain on them.

18 And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain;* there shall be the plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.

19 This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.

20 And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “Holy to the Lord.” And the pots in the house of the Lord shall be as the bowls before the altar.

21 And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holy to the Lord of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the meat of the sacrifice in them. And there shall no longer be a trader* in the house of the Lord of hosts on that day.

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