Zechariah 9:9–10:6

9  dRejoice greatly, O edaughter of Zion;

eShout, O daughter of Jerusalem:

fBehold, gthy King cometh unto thee:

hHe is just, and ||having salvation;

fiLowly, and kriding upon an ass,

fAnd upon a colt the foal of an ass.

10  And lI will cut off the chariot from Ephraim,

And lmthe horse from Jerusalem,

And the battle bow shall be cut off:

And nhe shall speak opeace unto the heathen:

pAnd his dominion shall be qfrom sea even to sea,

pAnd from the river even to rthe ends of the earth.

11  As for thee also, ||by sthe blood of thy covenant

I thave sent forth thy tuprisoners out of vthe pit wherein is no water.

12  Turn you to the strong hold, tye prisoners wof hope:

xEven to day do I declare that I will render ydouble unto thee;

13  yyWhen I have bent Judah for me, zfilled the bow with Ephraim,

And raised up thy sons, O Zion, against athy sons, bO Greece,

And made thee as the sword of a mighty man.

14  And the Lord shall be seen over them,

And chis arrow shall go forth as dthe lightning:

And ethe Lord God shall blow the trumpet,

And shall go fwith whirlwinds of gthe south.

15  The Lord of hosts hshall defend them; and ithey shall devour,

And ||subdue with sling stones;

And they shall drink, and kmake a noise as through wine;

And they ||shall be filled like lbowls, and as mthe corners of the altar.

16  And the Lord their God shall save them nin that day as othe flock of his people:

For they shall be as pthe stones of a crown, qlifted up as an ensign upon his land.

17  For rhow great is shis goodness, and how great is this beauty!

suCorn shall make the young men ||cheerful, and swnew wine the maids.

10 Ask ye aof the Lord rain in the time of bthe latter rain;

So the Lord shall make ||bright clouds,

And cgive them showers of rain,

To every one grass in the field.

2  For dthe †idols have spoken vanity,

And ethe diviners have seen a lie,

And fhave told efalse dreams;

gThey comfort din vain:

Therefore they went their way as a flock,

They ||were troubled, hbecause there was no shepherd.

3  Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds,

And I †punished ithe goats:

For the Lord of hosts khath visited his flock the house of Judah,

And hath made them las his goodly horse in the battle.

4  Out of him came forth mthe corner, out of him nthe nail,

Out of him othe battle bow, out of him every poppressor together.

5  And qthey shall be as mighty men, rwhich tread down their enemies

rrIn the mire of the streets in the battle:

And they shall fight, sbecause the Lord is with them,

And ||ttthe riders on horses ushall be confounded.

6  And vI will strengthen the house of Judah,

And vwI will save the house of Joseph,

And vwI will bring them again to place them; for I yhave mercy upon them:

And they shall be as though I had not cast them off:

For I am the Lord their God, and zwill hear them.