Zechariah 14:2

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle, and the city will be captured, the houses will be plundered, and the women violated. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women violated; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For I will gather{H622} all nations{H1471} against Jerusalem{H3389} to battle;{H4421} and the city{H5892} shall be taken,{H3920} and the houses{H1004} rifled,{H8155} and the women{H802} ravished;{H7901} and half{H2677} of the city{H5892} shall go forth{H3318} into captivity,{H1473} and the residue{H3499} of the people{H5971} shall not be cut off{H3772} from the city.{H5892}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For I will gather{H622}{(H8804)} all nations{H1471} against Jerusalem{H3389} to battle{H4421}; and the city{H5892} shall be taken{H3920}{(H8738)}, and the houses{H1004} rifled{H8155}{(H8738)}, and the women{H802} ravished{H7901}{(H8735)}{(H8675)}{H7693}{(H8735)}; and half{H2677} of the city{H5892} shall go forth{H3318}{(H8804)} into captivity{H1473}, and the residue{H3499} of the people{H5971} shall not be cut off{H3772}{(H8735)} from the city{H5892}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    for I wil gather together all the Heithen, to fight agaynst Ierusalem: so that the cite shalbe wonne, the houses spoyled, and the women defyled. The half of the cite shal go awaye in to captiuyte, and the residue of the people shal not be caried out of the cite.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For I will gather all nations against Ierusalem to battell, and the citie shall be taken, and the houses spoyled, and the women defiled, and halfe of the citie shall goe into captiuitie, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from ye citie.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For I wyll gather together all the heathen to fight against Hierusalem, so that the citie shalbe wonne, the houses spoyled, and the women defiled: the halfe of the citie shall go away into captiuitie, and the residue of the people shal not be caryed out of the citie.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And I have gathered all the nations unto Jerusalem to battle, And captured hath been the city, And spoiled have been the houses, And the women are lain with, Gone forth hath half the city in a removal, And the remnant of the people are not cut off from the city.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to wage war; the city will be taken, its houses plundered, and the women raped. Then half of the city will go into exile, but the remainder of the people will not be taken away.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 13:16 : 16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be violated.
  • Joel 3:2 : 2 I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment with them concerning my people and my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and they have divided up my land.
  • Amos 7:17 : 17 Therefore, this is what the Lord says: 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be divided up with a measuring line, and you yourself will die in a polluted land. Israel will surely go into exile away from their homeland.'
  • Zech 13:8-9 : 8 In all the land, declares the LORD, two-thirds will be cut off and perish, but one-third will be left in it. 9 This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’
  • Matt 22:7 : 7 The king was enraged. He sent his army, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
  • Matt 23:37-38 : 37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you! How often I have wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! 38 Look, your house is left to you desolate.
  • Matt 24:15-16 : 15 'So when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),' 16 'then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.'
  • Matt 24:19-22 : 19 Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days! 20 Pray that your escape may not happen in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For at that time there will be great tribulation, unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, and never will happen again. 22 If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.
  • Mark 13:14 : 14 When you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be, as spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.
  • Mark 13:19 : 19 For those days will be a time of tribulation unlike anything that has occurred from the beginning of creation, which God made, until now, and will never occur again.
  • Luke 2:1 : 1 At that time, a decree was issued by Caesar Augustus that the entire Roman world should be registered.
  • Luke 19:43-44 : 43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build a barricade against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side. 44 They will crush you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave one stone on another in you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.
  • Luke 21:20-24 : 20 When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near. 21 Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those inside the city must leave it, and those in the countryside must not enter it. 22 For these are days of vengeance, so that all that is written may be fulfilled. 23 Woe to those who are pregnant and nursing in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people. 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken as captives to all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
  • Rom 9:27-29 : 27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: 'Though the number of the children of Israel be like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.' 28 For the Lord will carry out his sentence on the earth fully and decisively. 29 And just as Isaiah said previously: 'Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been made like Gomorrah.'
  • Gal 4:26-27 : 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. 27 For it is written: 'Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.'
  • Isa 65:6-9 : 6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps. 7 Your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestors together,' says the LORD, 'because they burned incense on the mountains and reproached me on the hills; I will measure their former deeds into their laps.' 8 This is what the LORD says: 'As new wine is found in a cluster and someone says, "Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it," in the same way, I will act for the sake of my servants and not destroy them all.' 9 I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and from Judah those who will inherit my mountains. My chosen ones will inherit it, and my servants will dwell there.
  • Isa 65:18 : 18 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy.
  • Jer 34:1 : 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord when Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and all his army, along with all the kingdoms under his dominion and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and all of its cities, saying:
  • Lam 1:10 : 10 The enemy has laid hands on all her treasures; she saw nations enter her sanctuary—those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.
  • Lam 5:11-12 : 11 Women in Zion were violated, virgins in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.
  • Dan 2:40-43 : 40 Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, for iron crushes and shatters everything. And just as iron breaks in pieces, it will crush and break all the others. 41 But as you saw the feet and toes made partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it will be a divided kingdom. However, it will have some of the strength of iron, as you saw the iron mixed with the clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so the kingdom will be partly strong and partly fragile. 43 As you saw the iron mixed with clay, the people will mix but will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay.
  • Deut 28:9-9 : 9 The LORD will establish you as His holy people, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways. 10 Then all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the LORD is called upon you, and they will stand in awe of you. 11 The LORD will make you prosper abundantly in the fruit of your womb, in the offspring of your livestock, and in the produce of your land on the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you. 12 The LORD will open the heavens, His rich treasury, to give rain to your land in its season and bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. 13 The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will only go upwards and not downwards, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God that I am commanding you today, to observe and to do them. 14 You must not turn aside from any of the words I am commanding you today, neither to the right nor to the left, to follow other gods and serve them.
  • Isa 5:26 : 26 He lifts a banner for the nations far away and whistles for them from the ends of the earth. Look! They come swiftly and speedily.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Behold, a day is coming for the Lord, when your plunder will be divided in your midst.

  • Zech 14:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3 Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as He fights in a day of battle.

    4 On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which lies before Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a very great valley, so that half of the mountain will move northward and the other half southward.

  • Zech 12:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    2 Behold, I am making Jerusalem a cup of reeling for all the surrounding nations. Even Judah will be besieged as Jerusalem is attacked.

    3 And on that day, I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who try to lift it will be severely injured, and all the nations of the earth will gather against her.

  • 9 On that day, I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

  • 77%

    10 The whole land will be transformed like the plain of the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem will be raised up and remain in its place, from the Benjamin Gate to the place of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.

    11 And people will live in it, and there will no longer be any curse of destruction. Jerusalem will dwell in security.

    12 This will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that fought 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.

    13 On that day, a great panic from the Lord will come upon them. Each will seize the hand of his neighbor, and they will attack one another.

    14 Even Judah will fight at Jerusalem. The wealth of all the surrounding nations—gold, silver, and clothing—will be gathered in great abundance.

  • 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken as captives to all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

  • 11 But now many nations are gathered against you, saying, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gloat over Zion.'

  • Isa 13:14-16
    3 verses
    76%

    14 Like a hunted gazelle, like sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his own land.

    15 Whoever is found will be pierced through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.

    16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be violated.

  • 22 Behold, I am giving a command, declares the Lord, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it with fire. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without any inhabitants.

  • Joel 3:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem.

    2 I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment with them concerning my people and my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and they have divided up my land.

  • 11 Women in Zion were violated, virgins in the cities of Judah.

  • 12 'They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. They will throw your stones, timber, and rubble into the sea.'

  • 2 Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. Then the house of Israel will possess them in the LORD's land as male and female servants. They will take captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.

  • 22 Yet, behold, there will be survivors, some sons and daughters brought out. They will come to you, and you will see their ways and their deeds. You will be comforted concerning the disaster I have brought upon Jerusalem, all I have brought upon it.

  • 11 Who is the wise person who may understand this? And to whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished, been scorched like a desert with no one passing through?

  • 12 Their houses will be turned over to others, along with their fields and wives. For I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord.

  • 8 I will make this city desolate and an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.

  • 7 At that time, gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts from a people tall and smooth-skinned, a people feared far and wide, a mighty and conquering nation divided by rivers, to the place of the name of the LORD of Hosts, to Mount Zion.

  • 37 A sword is against her horses and her chariots, and against all the mixed multitude in her midst. They will become like women. A sword is against her treasures, and they will be plundered.

  • 26 Therefore, her young men will fall in her streets, and all the warriors will be silenced on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts.

  • 14 However, you may take the women, children, livestock, and everything else in the city as your spoils. You may enjoy the plunder from your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.

  • 15 For I am summoning all the clans and kingdoms of the north,' declares the LORD. 'They will come, and each will set up his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, around all her walls, and against all the cities of Judah.

  • 39 I will deliver you into their hands, and they will tear down your mounds and demolish your high places. They will strip you of your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.

  • 16 And the people to whom they are prophesying will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters. I will pour out their wickedness upon them.

  • 14 I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and give them into the hands of their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil for all their enemies,

  • 3 For a nation has come against her from the north; it will make her land desolate. No one will live there—neither man nor beast—all will flee and be gone.

  • 20 When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near.

  • 16 Then all who survive from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

  • 30 Therefore, her young men will fall in her streets, and all her soldiers will perish on that day, declares the LORD.

  • 31 For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this.

  • 12 Only desolation is left in the city; the gate is battered into ruins.

  • 13 Look, your people are like women within you. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies, and fire has consumed your bars.

  • 29 At the sound of the horsemen and archers, every city flees. They go into the thickets and climb among the rocks. The cities are abandoned, and no one lives in them.

  • 6 For this is what the Lord of Hosts says: Cut down trees and build a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; it is filled with oppression.

  • 12 You will come to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against resettled ruins and against a people gathered from the nations, people acquiring livestock and goods, who live at the center of the land.

  • 16 But all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries will go into captivity. Those who plunder you will be plundered, and all who loot you I will give as loot.

  • 14 This is what the LORD says: 'As for all my evil neighbors who harm the inheritance I gave my people Israel, I will uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.'

  • 5 I will deliver all the wealth of this city, all its products, all its valuable possessions, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hands of their enemies. They will plunder them, take them, and carry them off to Babylon.'

  • 17 Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

  • 12 Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.

  • 17 They will consume your harvest and your bread, devour your sons and daughters, eat your flocks and herds, and consume your vines and fig trees. With the sword, they will destroy your fortified cities in which you trust.