For I will gather all nations against Ierusalem to battell, and the citie shall be taken, and the houses spoyled, and the women defiled, and halfe of the citie shall goe into captiuitie, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from ye citie.
Zechariah 14:1 Beholde, the day of the Lord commeth, and thy spoyle shall be deuided in the middes of thee.
Zechariah 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Ierusalem to battell, and the citie shall be taken, and the houses spoyled, and the women defiled, and halfe of the citie shall goe into captiuitie, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from ye citie.
Zechariah 14:3 Then shall the Lord goe foorth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battell.
Zechariah 14:4 And his feete shall stand in that day vpon the mount of oliues, which is before Ierusalem on the Eastside, and the mount of oliues shall cleaue in the middes thereof: toward the East and toward the West there shalbe a very great valley, and halfe of ye mountaine shall remooue toward the North, and halfe of the mountaine towarde the South.
The verse centers on "gather", "nations", "against", "ierusalem", "battell", "citie", "shall", and "taken". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "gather" and "nations", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 1's "Beholde the day of the Lord commeth..." into verse 3's "Then shall the Lord goe foorth and...", so "gather" 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 "gather" and "nations" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.