And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces - (Zechariah 14:4; Zechariah 14:6-9; Zechariah 14:13). Jerome states it was a custom in Palestine to test the strength of youths by their lifting up a massive stone; the phrase, "burden themselves with it," refers to this custom. Compare Matthew 21:44; the Jews "fell" on the rock of offence, Messiah, and were "broken;" but the rock shall fall on Antichrist, who "burdens himself with it" by his assault on the restored Jews, and "grind him to powder."
Though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. The anti-Christian confederacy against the Jews shall be almost universal.