Zechariah 10

Chapter 10

God Will Bless Judah and Ephraim

¹Ask ^arain from the Lord at the time of the spring rain—

The Lord who ^bmakes the ¹storm clouds;

And He will give them ^cshowers of rain, vegetation in the field to each man.

²For the ^ateraphim speak ¹iniquity,

And the ^bdiviners see ²lying visions

And tell ^cfalse dreams;

They comfort in vain.

Therefore the people ³wander like ^dsheep,

They are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.

³“My ^aanger is kindled against the shepherds,

And I will punish the ¹male goats;

For the Lord of hosts has ^bvisited His flock, the house of Judah,

And will make them like His majestic horse in battle.

⁴“From ¹them will come the ^acornerstone,

From them the tent peg,

From them the bow of ^bbattle,

From them every ²ruler, all of them together.

⁵“They will be as mighty men,

^aTreading down the enemy in the mire of the streets in battle;

And they will fight, for the Lord will be with them;

And the ^briders on horses will be put to shame.

⁶“I will ^astrengthen the house of Judah,

And I will ^bsave the house of Joseph,

And I will ^1cbring them back,

Because I have had ^dcompassion on them;

And they will be as though I had ^enot rejected them,

For I am the Lord their God and I will ^fanswer them.

⁷“Ephraim will be like a mighty man,

And their heart will be glad as if from wine;

Indeed, their ^achildren will see it and be glad,

¹Their heart will rejoice in the Lord.

⁸“I will ^awhistle for them to gather them together,

For I have redeemed them;

And they will be as ^bnumerous as they ^1cwere before.

⁹“When I ¹scatter them among the peoples,

They will ^aremember Me in far countries,

And they with their children will live and come back.

¹⁰“I will ^abring them back from the land of Egypt

And gather them from Assyria;

And I will bring them into the land of ^bGilead and Lebanon

¹Until ^cno room can be found for them.

¹¹“And they will pass through the ^asea of distress

And He will strike the waves in the sea,

So that all the depths of the ^bNile will dry up;

And the pride of ^cAssyria will be brought down

And the scepter of ^dEgypt will depart.

¹²“And I will ^astrengthen them in the Lord,

And in His name ^bthey will walk,” declares the Lord.