7 Yahweh will save Yehudah’s tents first, so that the honour of David’s descendants and the honour of Yerushalem’s inhabitants won’t be greater than the rest of Yehudah. 8 At that time, Yahweh will be the defender of the inhabitants of Yerushalem. Those among them who are weak will become strong like David, while the David’s descendants will be like God, like Yahweh’s messenger going ahead of them. 9 “On that day I will begin to destroy all the nations that fight against Yerushalem.”

10 But I will pour out a spirit of compassion and pleading on David’s descendants and the inhabitants of Yerushalem, so they will look on me—the one they’ve pierced. They’ll mourn for me, as one mourns for an only son—they will wail bitterly for him like those who wail after the death of a firstborn son.[ref] 11 On that day the wailing in Yerushalem will be like the wailing at Hadad-Rimmon in the Megiddo plain. 12 The land will mourn, each clan separate from other clans. The clan of David’s descendants will be separate and their wives will be separate from the men. The clan of Nathan’s descendants will be separate and their wives will also be separate from the men. 13 The clan of Levi’s descendants will be separate and their wives will be separate from the men. The clan of the Shimeites will be separate and their wives will also be separate from the men. 14 Each of the remaining clans will be separate and the wives will be separate from the men.”