Midweek Lent 6

¹⁰ “I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace, who pleads for mercy.^[b] Then they will look at me, the one they have pierced.”

They will mourn for him^[c] as one mourns for an only child. They will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves over his firstborn. ¹¹ On that day there will be great mourning in Jerusalem, as great as the mourning for Hadad Rimmon^[d] in the plain of Megiddo. ¹² The land will mourn, each family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan^[e] by itself, and their wives by themselves; ¹³ the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself, and their wives by themselves;