Zechariah 12:11 (LSB)

Passage

In that day there will be great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

Nearby Context

Zechariah 12:9 And it will be in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Zechariah 12:10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.

Zechariah 12:11 In that day there will be great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

Zechariah 12:12 And the land will mourn, each family alone; the family of the house of David alone and their wives alone; the family of the house of Nathan alone and their wives alone;

Zechariah 12:13 the family of the house of Levi alone and their wives alone; the family of the Shimeites alone and their wives alone;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "great", "mourning", "jerusalem", "like", "hadadrimmon", "plain", and "megiddo". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "great" and "mourning", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 10's "And I will pour out on the..." into verse 12's "And the land will mourn each family...", so "great" and "mourning" 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 "great" and "mourning" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.