Zechariah 12:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.

That day

Zechariah 12:3

Isaiah 24:21

I will smite

Ezekiel 39:20

I will open

General references

Isaiah 60:12

Jeremiah 51:21

Zechariah 14:3

Bible References

That day

Moreover, on that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy burden for all the nations, and all who try to carry it will be seriously injured; yet all the peoples of the earth will be assembled against it.

At that time the Lord will punish the heavenly forces in the heavens and the earthly kings on the earth.

I will smite

And they will be like warriors trampling the mud of the streets in battle. They will fight, for the Lord will be with them, and will defeat the enemy cavalry.

This is the kind of plague that will devastate horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the other animals in those camps.

The Lord will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind.

So he sent horses and chariots there, along with a good-sized army. They arrived during the night and surrounded the city.

The bravehearted were plundered; they "fell asleep." All the warriors were helpless.

I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and bring you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them fully armed, a great company with shields of different types, all of them armed with swords.

You will fill up at my table with horses and charioteers, with warriors and all the soldiers,' declares the sovereign Lord.

I will open

Then I will surround my temple to protect it like a guard from anyone crossing back and forth; so no one will cross over against them anymore as an oppressor, for now I myself have seen it.

Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant's prayer for this place.

Now I will be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.

may your ear be attentive and your eyes be open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying to you today throughout both day and night on behalf of your servants the Israelites. I am confessing the sins of the Israelites that we have committed against you -- both I myself and my family have sinned.

Pay attention, Lord, and hear! Open your eyes, Lord, and observe! Listen to this entire message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God!

I will look after their welfare and will restore them to this land. There I will build them up and will not tear them down. I will plant them firmly in the land and will not uproot them.

Listen attentively, my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins and the city called by your name. For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, but because your compassion is abundant.

Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent,

General references

Indeed, nations or kingdoms that do not serve you will perish; such nations will be totally destroyed.

I used you to smash horses and their riders. I used you to smash chariots and their drivers.

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