9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!

Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!

Look! Your king comes to you;

he is righteous and victorious,

humble and riding on a donkey,

and on a male donkey, ⌊the foal of⌋q a female donkey!

10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim,

and the horse from Jerusalem;

the battle bow will be cut down,

and he will announce peace to the nations.

His dominion will be from sea to sea,

and from the Riverr to the ends of the earth.

11 As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant,

I will release your prisoners from ⌊the waterless pit⌋.s

12 Return to the fortress,

O prisoners of hope;

today I am declaring that I will repay you double.

13 For I have bent Judah as my bow;

I have set Ephraim as an arrow.

I will set in motion your sons, O Zion,

against your sons, O Javan.t

I will wield you like the sword of a warrior.

14 Then Yahweh will appear over them,

and his arrow will go forth like lightning;

and my Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet,

and he shall go out in the storm winds of the south.

15 Yahweh of hosts will defend them,

and they will devour and subdue the slingstones;u

they will drink, they will make noisev like wine,

and they will be full like the sacrificial basin,w

drenched like the corners of an altar.

16 And Yahweh their God will save them on that day,

as the flock of his people;

for they are like the stones of a diadem,

glittering on his land.

17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty!

Grain will make the young men thrive,

and new wine the young women.