And I will assemble all the nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity; and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Zechariah 14:1 Behold, the day cometh for Jehovah, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Zechariah 14:2 And I will assemble all the nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity; and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Zechariah 14:3 And Jehovah will go forth and fight with those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Zechariah 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem toward the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
The verse centers on "assemble", "nations", "against", "jerusalem", "battle", "city", "shall", and "taken". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "assemble" and "nations", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 1's "Behold the day cometh for Jehovah and..." into verse 3's "And Jehovah will go forth and fight...", so "assemble" and "nations" belong inside that flow. In Zechariah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "assemble" and "nations" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.