AB - Zechariah - 9

9:1  The burden of the word of the Lord, in the land of Hadrach, and His sacrifice shall be in Damascus; for the Lord looks upon men, and upon all the tribes of Israel.

9:2  And in Hamath, even in her coasts, are Tyre and Sidon, because they were very wise.

9:3  And Tyre built strongholds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.

9:4  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.

9:5  Ashkelon shall see and fear; Gaza also, and shall be greatly pained, and Ekron; for she is ashamed at her trespass; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

9:6  And aliens shall dwell in Azotus, and I will bring down the pride of the Philistines.

9:7  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 Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.

9:8  And I will set up a defense for My house, that they may not pass through, nor turn back, neither shall an oppressor come upon them to drive them away: for now have I seen with My eyes.

9:9  Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; proclaim it aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, your King is coming to you, righteous, and your Savior; He is meek and riding on a donkey, a young foal of a donkey.

9:10  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.

9:11  And you, by the blood of your covenant, have sent forth your prisoners out of the waterless pit.

9:12  You shall dwell in strongholds, you prisoners of the congregation: and for one day of your captivity I will recompense you double.

9:13  For I have bent you, O Judah, for Myself as a bow, I have filled Ephraim; and I will raise up your children, O Zion, against the children of the Greeks, and I will handle you as the sword of a warrior.

9:14  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.

9:15  The Lord Almighty shall protect them, and they shall destroy them, and overwhelm them with slingstones; and they shall swallow them down as wine, and fill the bowls as the altar.

9:16  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.

9:17  For if He has anything good, and if He has anything fair, the young men shall have grain, and there shall be fragrant wine to the virgins.