ZEC 14:3 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=minor/spelling Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

14:3 OSHB note: Marks a place where we agree with BHQ against BHS in reading L.

14:3 OSHB note: Marks an anomalous form.

14:3 OSHB note: We read one or more vowels in L differently from BHS.

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Καὶ ἐξελεύσεται Κύριος, καὶ παρατάξεται ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν ἐκείνοις, καθὼς ἡμέρα παρατάξεως αὐτοῦ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ πολέμου.
(Kai exeleusetai Kurios, kai parataxetai en tois ethnesin ekeinois, kathōs haʸmera parataxeōs autou en haʸmera polemou.)

BrTr And the Lord shall go forth, and fight with those Gentiles as when he fought in the day of war.

ULT And Yahweh will go out and will fight against those nations, like the day of his fighting on a day of battle.

UST Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, just as he fought his enemies in battles long ago.

BSB Then the LORD will go out to fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle.

OEB Then the Lord will go forth and fight against these nations, as once he fought in the day of battle.

WEBBE Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

MSG ^(3-5)But then God will march out against the godless nations and fight—a great war! That’s the Day he’ll take his stand on the Mount of Olives, facing Jerusalem from the east. The Mount of Olives will be split right down the middle, from east to west, leaving a wide valley. Half the mountain will shift north, the other half south. Then you will run for your lives down the valley, your escape route that will take you all the way to Azal. You’ll run for your lives, just as you ran on the day of the great earthquake in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah. Then my God will arrive and all the holy angels with him.

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

LSV And YHWH has gone forth,
And He has fought against those nations,
As in the day of His fighting in a day of conflict.

FBV Then the Lord will go out to fight against the nations as he fights in times of war.

T4T Then Yahweh will go out to fight against those nations; he will fight like [SIM] soldiers fight in a battle.

LEB Then Yahweh will go forth and fight against those nations, like _⌊when he fights_⌋[fn] on a day of battle.

14:3 Literally “the day of his fighting”

BBE Then the Lord will go out and make war against those nations, as he did in the day of the fight.

Moff Then the Eternal will sally forth to fight against these nations, as once he fought upon the day of battle.

JPS Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when He fighteth in the day of battle.

ASV Then shall Jehovah go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

DRA Then the Lord shall go forth, and shall fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

YLT And gone forth hath Jehovah, And He hath fought against those nations, As in the day of His fighting in a day of conflict.

Drby And Jehovah will go forth and fight with those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

RV Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

SLT And Jehovah went forth and waged war with these nations as the day of his warring in the day of encounter.

Wbstr Then will the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

KJB-1769 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

KJB-1611 Then shall the LORD goe forth and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battel.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps After that, shall the Lorde go foorth to fight against those heathen, as men vse to fight in the day of battaile.
(After that, shall the Lord go forth to fight against those heathen, as men use to fight in the day of battle.)

Gnva Then shall the Lord goe foorth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battell.
(Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.)

Cvdl After that shall the LORDE go forth to fight agaynst those Heithen, as men vse to fight in the daye of batell.
(After that shall the LORD go forth to fight against those Heathen, as men use to fight in the day of battle.)

Wycl And the Lord schal go out, and schal fiyte ayens tho folkis, as he fauyte in the dai of strijf.
(And the Lord shall go out, and shall fight against those folks/people, as he fought in the day of strife.)

Luth Aber der HErr wird ausziehen und streiten wider dieselbigen Heiden, gleichwie er zu streiten pflegt zur Zeit des Streits.
(But the/of_the LORD becomes get_undressed and argue/battle against the_same heathens, same_as he to/for argue/battle maintains to/for time/period the battles.)

ClVg Et egredietur Dominus, et præliabitur contra gentes illas, sicut præliatus est in die certaminis.
(And will_go_out Master, and will_do_battle on_the_contrary people/nations those, like done_battle it_is in/into/on day of_competition.)

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Zechariah Prophesies of Judah’s Restoration

Zechariah 14

In the last chapter of his book, the prophet Zechariah describes an apocalypic vision of Judah’s coming restoration. It is not clear whether Zechariah’s vision refers to actual, specific events to come in the future, or whether it expresses a more general hope that one day God will ultimately intervene in history to judge the nations, protect his people, and establish his rule over the world. The vision begins by describing a time of great suffering when all the nations will be gathered for battle against Jerusalem. The city will fall, and half the city will go into exile. Since Zechariah lived after the fall of Jerusalem and the exile of many Judeans to Babylon, this portion of the vision may actually refer to these past events. The vision continues on, describing how the Lord will rise up for those that remain, and he will fight the nations, and the very land itself will be transformed for the Lord’s people. The Lord will stand on the Mount of Olives, just east of Jerusalem, and the mountain will be split in half from east to west, allowing the people of Jerusalem to flee through the new valley to Azal, an uncertain location somewhere east of the city. Living waters will flow out of Jerusalem as well, with half the waters flowing to the Dead Sea (literally, “eastern sea”) and the other half flowing to the Mediterranean Sea (literally, “western sea”). The Lord will become king over all the earth, and the land will become a plain from Geba to Rimmon, essentially the entire land of Judah. It is interesting to note that this restored Judah will once again include the region that was under the rule of the Idumeans (Edomites) at the time of Zechariah. The Edomites had apparently moved northward from Seir into this region while Judah was under attack from Nebuchadnezzar just before the fall of Jerusalem (see Ezekiah 25:12-14; Obadiah 1:1-21; see “Nebuchadnezzar’s Final Campaign against Judah” map). Jerusalem, however, will continue to remain elevated over the surrounding area. The city, which lay in ruins at the time of Zechariah, is described as spanning east to west from the Gate of Benjamin (on the eastern edge of the Temple Mount) to the Old Gate (on the western edge of the Temple Mount) to the Corner Gate (on the far western edge of the city). The city also spanned north to south from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses, likely near the king’s garden at the southern edge of the city.

Parallel ZEC 14:3

Zechariah Prophesies of Judah’s Restoration