Zechariah 9
1 The burden of the word of the Lord
in the land of Sedrach, and his sacrifice shall be in
Damascus; for the Lord looks upon men, and upon all the tribes of Israel.
2 And in Emath,
even in her coasts, are Tyre
and Sidon, because they were very wise.
3 And Tyrus built strong-holds for
herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the
ways.
4 And therefore the Lord will take
them for a possession, and will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be
consumed with fire. 5 Ascalon shall
see, and fear; Gaza also, and shall be greatly pained, and Accaron; for she is
ashamed
aAlex. of her hope.at her trespass; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ascalon shall not
be inhabited. 6 And aliens shall dwell
in Azotus, and I will bring down the pride of the Philistines.
7 And I will take their blood out of
their mouth, and their abominations from between their teeth; and these also
shall be left to our God, and they shall be as a captain of a thousand in
Juda, and Accaron as a Jebusite. 8 And
I will set up a
bOr, bulwark. See Zeph. 2. 14.defence for my house, that they may not pass through, nor turn back, neither
shall there any more come upon them one to drive them away: for now have I
seen with mine eyes.
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion;
proclaim it aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem;
cMat. 21. 5.
behold, the King is coming to thee, just, and
dGr. saving.a Saviour; he is meek and riding on an ass, and a young foal.
10 And he shall destroy the chariots
out of Ephraim, and the horse out of Jerusalem, and the bow of war shall be
utterly destroyed; and there shall be abundance and
peace out of the nations; and he shall rule over the waters as far as the sea,
and the rivers to the ends of the earth.
11 And thou by the blood of thy
covenant hast sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit that has no water.
12 Ye shall dwell in strongholds, ye
prisoners of the congregation: and for one day of thy
eOr, sojourning.captivity I will recompense thee double.
13 For I have bent thee, O Juda, for
myself as a bow, I have filled
fOr, it with Ephraim.Ephraim; and I will raise up thy children, O Sion, against the children of
the Greeks, and I will handle thee as the sword of a warrior.
14 And the Lord shall be over them,
and his arrow shall go forth as lightning: and the
Lord Almighty shall blow with the trumpet; and shall proceed with the tumult
of his threatening. 15 The Lord
Almighty shall protect them, and they shall destroy them, and overwhelm them
with sling-stones; and they shall swallow them down as wine, and fill
gAlex. the altar as bowls.the bowls as the altar. 16 And the
Lord their God shall save them in that day, even his
people as a flock; for holy stones are rolled upon his land.
17 For if he has anything good, and
if he has anything fair, the young
men shall have corn, and
there shall be fragrant wine to the virgins.