1 Behold, ^xa day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. 2 For ^yI will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and ^zthe city shall be taken ^aand the houses plundered ^band the women raped. ^cHalf of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 ^dThen the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. 4 ^eOn that day his feet shall stand ^fon ^gthe Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and ^gthe Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by ^ha very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward.