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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.
Zechariah 14:7 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.
  • KJV But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
  • BSB It will be a day known only to the LORD, without day or night; but when evening comes, there will be light.
  • NKJV It shall be one day Which is known to the Lord— Neither day nor night. But at evening time it shall happen That it will be light.
  • NASB For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at the time of evening there will be light.

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Quick answer

It will be a unique day, known only to the LORD—neither day nor night—yet at evening there will be light. It matters because it promises that God's day ends in light, not darkness.

Overview

This singular day, fully known to God alone, defies the normal pattern of day and night, and instead of darkness falling at evening, light breaks forth. The reversal signals hope: God's purposes culminate in light dispelling darkness. It anticipates the eternal day of God's presence where there is no night and the Lamb is the light (Rev. 21:23-25; 22:5).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • Rev 22:5There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
  • Rev 21:23The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
  • Dan 12:4But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased.”
  • Isa 30:26Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.
  • 1 Th 5:2For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
  • Acts 15:18All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.’
  • Ps 37:18Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall be forever.
  • Matt 24:36But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
  • Isa 60:19–20The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
  • Jer 30:7Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it. It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
  • Acts 1:7He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.
  • Mark 13:32But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
  • Acts 17:31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
  • Isa 11:9They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
  • Rev 21:3I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
  • Isa 9:7Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
  • Hos 3:5Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
  • Rev 14:6I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.
  • Acts 17:26He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
  • Rev 21:25Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),
  • Rev 11:15The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
  • Rev 20:2–4He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

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Christ at the center

The Branch who is both priest and king, the shepherd struck and the flock scattered, the king coming humble on a donkey, the one they pierced, the fountain opened for sin — Zechariah is dense with Christ.

How Zechariah 14:7 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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