⁸ Then the Lord said to Moses, “^[a]Make a ^(A)fiery serpent, and put it on a flag pole; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, and looks at it, will live.” ⁹ So Moses made a ^(B)bronze serpent and put it on the flag pole; and it came about, that if a serpent bit someone, and he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.

¹² Our God, ^(A)will You not judge them? For we are powerless before this great multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but ^(B)our eyes are on You.”

God Is the Source of Salvation and Light

¹⁰ “And I will ^(A)pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem ^[a]the Spirit of grace and of pleading, so that they will look at Me whom they ^(B)pierced; and they will mourn for Him, like one ^(C)mourning for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.