Zechariah 14:12

God will strike the nations that fought Jerusalem with a wasting plague, their flesh, eyes, and tongues consuming away. It matters because it portrays the certain, terrible judgment on those who oppose God and His people.

Cross-references · 28

• Ezek 39:17–20And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.
• Isa 66:15–16For behold, the LORD will come with fire—His chariots are like a whirlwind—to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.
• Mic 4:11–13But now many nations have assembled against you, saying, “Let her be defiled, and let us feast our eyes on Zion.”
• Ps 110:5–6The Lord is at Your right hand; He will crush kings in the day of His wrath.
• Mic 7:16–17Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
• Ps 90:11Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
• Ezek 38:18–22Now on that day when Gog comes against the land of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, My wrath will flare up.
• Zech 12:9So on that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
• Deut 28:59He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
• 2 Chr 21:18–19After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.
• Lev 26:16then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
• Lev 26:24then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
• Isa 34:1–17Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.
• Rev 9:5–6The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.
• Zech 14:3Then the LORD will go out to fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle.
• Lev 26:21If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.
• Deut 28:22The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
• Ezek 39:4–6On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.
• Lev 26:28then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.
• 2 Chr 21:15And day after day you yourself will suffer from a severe illness, a disease of your bowels, until it causes your bowels to come out.’”
• Rev 17:16And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
• Rev 16:1–21Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s wrath.”
• Rev 19:17–21Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,
• Rev 18:6–8Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.
• Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• Lev 26:18And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.
• Joel 3:1–2“Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity,
• Mic 5:8–9Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.

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