6. On that day the sources of light will no longer shine,
7. yet there will be continuous day! Only the lord knows how this could happen. There will be no normal day and night, for at evening time it will still be light.
8. On that day life-giving waters will flow out from Jerusalem, half toward the Dead Sea and half toward the Mediterranean, flowing continuously in both summer and winter.
9. And the lord will be king over all the earth. On that day there will be one lord—his name alone will be worshiped.
10. All the land from Geba, north of Judah, to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, will become one vast plain. But Jerusalem will be raised up in its original place and will be inhabited all the way from the Benjamin Gate over to the site of the old gate, then to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.
11. And Jerusalem will be filled, safe at last, never again to be cursed and destroyed.
12. And the lord will send a plague on all the nations that fought against Jerusalem. Their people will become like walking corpses, their flesh rotting away. Their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
13. On that day they will be terrified, stricken by the lord with great panic. They will fight their neighbors hand to hand.
14. Judah, too, will be fighting at Jerusalem. The wealth of all the neighboring nations will be captured—great quantities of gold and silver and fine clothing.
15. This same plague will strike the horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the other animals in the enemy camps.