6. On that day I will place the chieftains of Judah like a pot on a wood fire and like a burning torch among the bundles of grain.They will devour all the surrounding nations to the right and the left.Jerusalem will dwell again in its place, in Jerusalem.
7. The Lord will first deliver the tents of Judah so that the splendor of David’s houseand the splendor of Jerusalem’s inhabitants won’t overshadow Judah.
8. On that day the Lord will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem.Anyone among them who stumbles on that day will become like David,and David’s house will become like God,like the Lord’s messenger in front of them.
9. On that day I intend to destroy all the nations who come against Jerusalem,
10. but I will pour out a spirit of grace and mercy on David’s houseand on the inhabitants of Jerusalem.They will look to me concerning the one whom they pierced;they will mourn over him like the mourning for an only child.They will mourn bitterly over him like the bitter mourning over the death of an oldest child.
11. On that day, the mourning in Jerusalemwill be as great as the mourning of Hadad-Rimmon in the Megiddo Valley.
12. The land will mourn, each of the clans by itself:the clan of David’s house by themselves, and their women by themselves;the clan of Nathan’s house by themselves, and their women by themselves;
13. the clan of Levi’s house by themselves, and their women by themselves;and the Shimeites’ clan by themselves, and their women by themselves;
14. and all the remaining clans, each clan by itself, and their women by themselves.