7. nor any darkness. There will always be daylight, even at night-time. When this will happen is known only to the Lord.
8. When that day comes, fresh water will flow from Jerusalem, half of it to the Dead Sea and the other half to the Mediterranean. It will flow all the year round, in the dry season as well as the wet.
9. Then the Lord will be king over all the earth; everyone will worship him as God and know him by the same name.
10. The whole region, from Geba in the north to Rimmon in the south, will be made level. Jerusalem will tower above the land round it; the city will reach from the Benjamin Gate to the Corner Gate, where there had been an earlier gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.
11. The people will live there in safety, no longer threatened by destruction.
12. The Lord will bring a terrible disease on all the nations that make war on Jerusalem. Their flesh will rot away while they are still alive; their eyes and their tongues will rot away.
13. At that time the Lord will make them so confused and afraid that everyone will seize the man next to him and attack him.
14. The men of Judah will fight to defend Jerusalem. They will take as loot the wealth of all the nations — gold, silver, and clothing in great abundance.
15. A terrible disease will also fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, and the donkeys — on all the animals in the camps of the enemy.
16. Then all the survivors from the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go there each year to worship the Lord Almighty as king, and to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.
17. If any nation refuses to go and worship the Lord Almighty as king, then rain will not fall on their land.
18. If the Egyptians refuse to celebrate the Festival of Shelters, then they will be struck by the same disease that the Lord will send on every nation that refuses to go.