Zechariah 14:7 (DBY)

Passage

And it shall be one day which is known to Jehovah, not day, and not night; and it shall come to pass, at eventide it shall be light.

Nearby Context

Zechariah 14:5 And ye shall flee [by] the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: ye shall even flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. And Jehovah my God shall come, [and] all the holy ones with thee.

Zechariah 14:6 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] there shall not be light; the shining shall be obscured.

Zechariah 14:7 And it shall be one day which is known to Jehovah, not day, and not night; and it shall come to pass, at eventide it shall be light.

Zechariah 14:8 And it shall come to pass in that day [that] living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

Zechariah 14:9 And Jehovah shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Jehovah, and his name one.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "light", "shall", "known", "jehovah", "night", "come", "pass", and "eventide". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "light" and "shall", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 6's "And it shall come to pass in..." into verse 8's "And it shall come to pass in...", so "light" and "shall" 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 "light" and "shall" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.