TSK · Zechariah 12:4

The LORD will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind.

So he sent horses and chariots there, along with a good-sized army. They arrived during the night and surrounded the city.

Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.

Now I will be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.

The bravehearted were plundered; they“fell asleep.” All the warriors were helpless.

Pay attention, LORD, and hear! Open your eyes, LORD, and observe! Listen to this entire message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God!

I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and bring you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them fully armed, a great company with shields of different types, all of them armed with swords.

Listen attentively, my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins and the city called by your name. For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, but because your compassion is abundant.

And they will be like warriors trampling the mud of the streets in battle. They will fight, for the LORD will be with them, and will defeat the enemy cavalry.

On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like an igniter among sticks and a burning torch among sheaves, and they will burn up all the surrounding nations right and left. Then the people of Jerusalem will settle once more in their place, the city of Jerusalem.

On that day the lamentation in Jerusalem will be as great as the lamentation at Hadad-Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent,