DRC - Zechariah - 9

9:1  The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach, and of Damascus the rest thereof: for the eye of man, and of all the tribes of Israel is the Lord's.

9:2  Emath also in the borders thereof, and Tyre, and Sidon: for they have taken to themselves to be exceeding wise.

9:3  And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.

9:4  Behold the Lord shall possess her, and shall strike her strength in the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire.

9:5  Ascalon shall see, and shall fear, and Gaza, and shall be very sorrowful: and Accaron, because her hope is confounded: and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ascalon shall not be inhabited.

9:6  And the divider shall sit in Azotus, and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.

9:7  And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: and even he shall be left to our God, and he shall be as a governor in Juda, and Accaron as a Jebusite.

9:8  And I will encompass my house with them that serve me in war, going and returning, and the oppressor shall no more pass through them: for now I have seen with my eyes.

9:9  Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.

9:10  And I will destroy the chariot out of Ephraim, and the horse out of Jerusalem, and the bow for war shall be broken: and he shall speak peace to the Gentiles, and his power shall be from sea to sea, and from the rivers even to the end of the earth.

9:11  Thou also by the blood of thy testament hast sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water.

9:12  Return to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope, I will render thee double as I declare today.

9:13  Because I have bent Juda for me as a bow, I have filled Ephraim: and I will raise up thy sons, O Sion, above thy sons, O Greece, and I will make thee as the sword of the mighty.

9:14  And the Lord God shall be seen over them, and his dart shall go forth as lightning: and the Lord God will sound the trumpet, and go in the whirlwind of the south.

9:15  The Lord of hosts will protect them: and they shall devour, and subdue with the stones of the sling: and drinking they shall be inebriated as it were with wine, and they shall be filled as bowls, and as the horns of the altar.

9:16  And the Lord their God will save them in that day, as the flock of his people: for holy stones shall be lifted up over his land.

9:17  For what is the good thing of him, and what is his beautiful thing, but the corn of the elect, and wine springing forth virgins?