Zechariah 9

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Judgment on Israel's Enemies

9 The oracle of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach
    and ^(A)Damascus is its resting place.
For the Lord has an eye on mankind
    and on all the tribes of Israel,^[a]
²^(B)and on Hamath also, which borders on it,
    ^(C)Tyre and ^(D)Sidon, though ^(E)they are very wise.
³Tyre has built herself ^(F)a rampart
    and ^(G)heaped up silver like dust,
    and fine gold like the mud of the streets.
⁴But behold, the Lord will strip her of her possessions
    and strike down ^(H)her power on the sea,
    and ^(I)she shall be devoured by fire.

⁵^(J)Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid;
    Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish;
    Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded.
The king shall perish from Gaza;
    Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;
⁶^(K)a mixed people^[b] shall dwell in Ashdod,
    and I will cut off the pride of Philistia.
⁷I will take away ^(L)its blood from its mouth,
    and ^(M)its abominations from between its teeth;
^(N)it too shall be a remnant for our God;
    it shall be like ^(O)a clan in Judah,
    and Ekron shall be like the Jebusites.
⁸Then ^(P)I will encamp at my house as a guard,
    ^(Q)so that none shall march to and fro;
^(R)no oppressor shall again march over them,
    ^(S)for now I see with my own eyes.

The Coming King of Zion

⁹^(T)Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
    Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
^(U)Behold, ^(V)your king is coming to you;
    righteous and having salvation is he,
^(W)humble and mounted on a donkey,
    on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
¹⁰^(X)I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
    and ^(Y)the war horse from Jerusalem;
and the battle bow shall be cut off,
    and ^(Z)he shall speak peace to the nations;
^(AA)his rule shall be from sea to sea,
    and from ^(AB)the River^[c] to the ends of the earth.
¹¹As for you also, because of ^(AC)the blood of my covenant with you,
    ^(AD)I will set your prisoners free from ^(AE)the waterless pit.
¹²Return to your stronghold, O ^(AF)prisoners of hope;
    today I declare that ^(AG)I will restore to you double.
¹³For ^(AH)I have bent Judah as my bow;
    I have made Ephraim its arrow.
I will stir up your sons, O Zion,
    against your sons, ^(AI)O Greece,
    and wield you like a warrior's sword.

The Lord Will Save His People

¹⁴Then the Lord will appear over them,
    and ^(AJ)his arrow will go forth like lightning;
^(AK)the Lord God will sound the trumpet
    and will march forth in ^(AL)the whirlwinds ^(AM)of the south.
¹⁵The Lord of hosts ^(AN)will protect them,
    and ^(AO)they shall devour, ^(AP)and tread down the sling stones,
and ^(AQ)they shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine,
    and be full like a bowl,
    drenched ^(AR)like the corners of the altar.

¹⁶On that day the Lord their God will save them,
    as ^(AS)the flock of his people;
for ^(AT)like the jewels of a crown
    they shall shine on his land.
¹⁷^(AU)For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty!
    ^(AV)Grain shall make the young men flourish,
    and new wine the young women.

Footnotes

Zechariah 9:1 Or For the eye of mankind, especially of all the tribes of Israel, is toward the Lord
Zechariah 9:6 Or a foreign people; Hebrew a bastard
Zechariah 9:10 That is, the Euphrates