Zechariah 12:9-11

Expanded Bible

⁹ ·At that time [^LOn that day] I will ·go [set out; begin] to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem.

Crying for the One They Pierced

¹⁰ “I will pour out on ·David’s family [^Lthe house of David] and the ·people in [inhabitants of] Jerusalem a spirit of ·kindness [grace] and ·mercy [prayer; supplication]. They will look at me, the one they have ·stabbed [pierced], and they will ·cry [^Lmourn/lament for him] like someone ·crying [mourning; lamenting] over the death of an only ·child [son]. They will ·be as sad [grieve bitterly] as someone who has lost a firstborn son. ¹¹ ·At that time [^LOn that day] there will be much crying in Jerusalem, like the crying for Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo [^Ceither where Judah mourned the death of king Josiah (2 Chr. 35:25), or ritualistic mourning associated with the Canaanite storm god (Ezek. 8:14; 2 Kin. 5:18)].