1. The Lord will have his day. And when it comes, everything that was ever taken from Jerusalem will be returned and divided among its people.
2. But first, he will bring many nations to attack Jerusalem—homes will be robbed, women raped, and half of the population dragged off, though the others will be allowed to remain.
3. The Lord will attack those nations like a warrior fighting in battle.
4. He will take his stand on the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem, and the mountain will split in half, forming a wide valley that runs from east to west.
5. Then you people will escape from the Lord's mountain, through this valley, which reaches to Azal. You will run in all directions, just as everyone did when the earthquake struck in the time of King Uzziah of Judah. Afterwards, the Lord my God will appear with his holy angels.
6. It will be a bright day that won't turn cloudy.
7. And the Lord has decided when it will happen—this time of unending day.
8. In both summer and winter, life-giving streams will flow from Jerusalem, half of them to the Dead Sea in the east and half to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
9. Then there will be only one Lord who rules as King and whose name is worshipped everywhere on earth.