Zechariah 14:7-9

14:7 It will happen in one day (a day known to the Lord); not in the day or the night, but in the evening there will be light. ¹  14:8 Moreover, on that day living waters will flow out from Jerusalem, ²  half of them to the eastern sea ³  and half of them to the western sea; ⁴  it will happen both in summer and in winter.

14:9 The Lord will then be king over all the earth. In that day the Lord will be seen as one with a single name. ⁵ 

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¹ sn In the evening there will be light. The normal pattern is that light breaks through in the morning (Gen 1:3) but in the day of the Lord in judgment it would do so in the evening. In a sense the universe will be “de-created” in order to be “recreated.”

² sn Living waters will flow out from Jerusalem. Ezekiel sees this same phenomenon in conjunction with the inauguration of the messianic age (Ezek 47; cf. Rev 22:1-5; also John 7:38).

³ sn The eastern sea is a reference to the Dead Sea (cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

⁴ sn The western sea is a reference to the Mediterranean Sea (cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

⁵ sn The expression the Lord will be seen as one with a single name is an unmistakable reference to the so-called Shema, the crystallized statement of faith in the Lord as the covenant God of Israel (cf. Deut 6:4-5). Zechariah, however, universalizes the extent of the Lord’s dominion – he will be “king over all the earth.”