And yee shall flee vnto the valley of the mountaines: for the valley of the mountaines shall reache vnto Azal: yea, yee shall flee like as ye fled from the earthquake in the daies of Vzziah King of Iudah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the Saints with thee.
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.
Zechariah 14:5 And yee shall flee vnto the valley of the mountaines: for the valley of the mountaines shall reache vnto Azal: yea, yee shall flee like as ye fled from the earthquake in the daies of Vzziah King of Iudah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the Saints with thee.
Zechariah 14:6 And in that day shall there bee no cleare light, but darke.
Zechariah 14:7 And there shall bee a day (it is knowen to the Lord) neither day nor night, but about the euening time it shall be light.
The verse centers on "shall", "flee", "vnto", "valley", and "mountaines". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "shall" and "flee", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 4's "And his feete shall stand in that..." into verse 6's "And in that day shall there bee...", so "shall" and "flee" 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 "shall" and "flee" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.