⁸ The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole;^(A) anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” ⁹ So Moses made a bronze snake^(B) and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.^(C)

Mourning for the One They Pierced

¹⁰ “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit^[a](A) of grace and supplication.^(B) They will look on^[b] me, the one they have pierced,^(C) and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child,^(D) and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.^(E)