Zechariah 9
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Zechariah 9
Judgment on Israel’s Enemies
1An Oracle.
The word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach
and will rest upon Damascus.
For to the Lord belongs the capital#9.1 Heb eye of Aram,#9.1 Cn: Heb of Adam (or of humankind)
as do all the tribes of Israel;
2 #
Jer 49.23; Ezek 28.3–5, 12, 21 Hamath also, which borders on it,
Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.
3 #
2 Sam 24.7; 1 Kings 10.21, 27; Ezek 27.33 Tyre has built itself a rampart
and heaped up silver like dust
and gold like the dirt of the streets.
4 #
Isa 23.1; Ezek 28.18 But now, the Lord will strip it of its possessions
and hurl its wealth into the sea,
and it shall be devoured by fire.
5 #
Am 1.6–8
Ashkelon shall see it and be afraid;
Gaza, too, and shall writhe in anguish;
Ekron also, because its hopes are withered.
The king shall perish from Gaza;
Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;
6 #
Am 1.8
a mongrel people shall settle in Ashdod,
and I will make an end of the pride of Philistia.
7 #
Ezek 25.15–17
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 #
Isa 52.1; 54.14; 60.18; Zech 2.5 Then I will encamp at my house as a guard,
so that no one shall march to and fro;
no oppressor shall again overrun them,
for now I have seen with my own eyes.
The Coming Ruler of God’s People
9 #
Isa 9.6, 7; 43.3, 11; 57.15; Zeph 3.14, 15; Mt 21.5 Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion!
Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem!
See, your king comes to you;
triumphant and victorious is he,
humble and riding on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
10 #
Ps 72.8; Isa 57.19; 60.12; Hos 1.7; 2.18; Hag 2.22 He#9.10 Gk: Heb 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 #
Ex 24.8; Isa 51.14; Heb 10.29 As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you,
I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
12 #
Isa 61.7; Jer 16.19; 17.13 Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope;
today I declare that I will restore to you double.
13 #
Ps 45.3; Isa 49.2; Jer 51.20; Joel 3.6 For I have bent Judah as my bow;
I have made Ephraim its arrow.#9.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain
I will arouse your sons, O Zion,
against your sons, O Greece,
and wield you like a warrior’s sword.
14 #
Ps 18.14; Isa 21.1; 27.13; 31.5; 66.15 Then the Lord will appear over them,
and his arrow go forth like lightning;
the Lord God will sound the trumpet
and march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.
15 #
Ex 27.2; Job 41.28; Ps 78.65; Isa 37.35; Zech 12.6 The Lord of hosts will protect them,
and they shall consume and conquer the slingers;#9.15 Cn: Heb the slingstones
they shall drink their blood#9.15 Gk: Heb they roared like wine
and be full like a bowl,
drenched like the corners of the altar.
16 #
Isa 62.3; Jer 31.10, 11 On that day the Lord 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 #
Jer 31.12, 14 For what goodness and beauty are his!
Grain shall make the young men flourish,
and new wine the young women.
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