Judah Defended

4On that day, declares Yahweh, I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness. But over the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, and I will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.

5Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Armies, their God.’

6On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will consume all the surrounding peoples, on the right and on the left. And Jerusalem will again dwell in her own place, in Jerusalem.

7And Yahweh will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be magnified over Judah.

8On that day Yahweh will shield the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who stumbles among them on that day will be like David, and the house of David like God, like the angel of Yahweh before them.

9And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.