| 9 | Zechariah | ||
| 1 | An Oracle and will rest upon Damascus. For to Yahweh belong the cities of Aram, even as all the tribes of Israel; | ← PART 2 -(Zch.9-14). Judgement on neighbouring nations. Zch.9.1-10 | |
| 2 | Hamath also, which borders thereon, Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise. | ||
| 3 | Tyre has built herself a rampart, and heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets. | ||
| 4 | But lo, Yahweh will strip her of her possessions and hurl her wealth into the sea, and she shall be devoured by fire. | ||
| 5 | 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 | a mongrel people shall dwell in Ashdod; and I will make an end of the pride of Philistia. | ||
| 7 | I will take away its blood from its mouth, and its abominations from between its teeth; it too shall be a remnant for our God; it shall be like a clan in Judah, and Ekron shall be like the Jebusites. | ||
| 8 | Then I will encamp at my house as a guard, so that none shall march to and fro; no oppressor shall again overrun them, for now I see with my own eyes. | ||
| 9 | Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on an ass, on a colt the foal of an ass. | The Future King Zech 9:9-10 | |
| 10 | I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall command peace to the nations; his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. | ||
| 11 | As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your captives free from the waterless pit. | The restoration of God's people. Zch.9.11-17 | |
| 12 | Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double. | ||
| 13 | For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made Ephraim its arrow. I will brandish your sons, O Zion, over your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior's sword. | ||
| 14 | Then Yahweh will appear over them, and his arrow go forth like lightning; the Lord Yahweh will sound the trumpet, and march forth in the whirlwinds of the south. | ||
| 15 | Yahweh of hosts will protect them, and they shall devour and tread down the slingers; and they shall drink their blood like wine, and be full like a bowl, drenched like the corners of the altar. | ||
| 16 | On that day Yahweh their God will save them for they are the flock of his people; for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine on his land. | ||
| 17 | Yea, how good and how fair it shall be! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maidens. | ||
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