Zechariah 9:11-17

Deliverance of Judah and Ephraim

11 As for you also, because of the 1blood of My covenant with you, I have set your 2prisoners free from the waterless * pit.
12 Return to the 3stronghold, O prisoners who have the 4hope; This very day I am declaring that I will restore 5double to you.
13 For I will 6bend Judah as My bow, I will fill the bow with Ephraim. And I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O 7Greece; And I will make you like a 8warrior's sword.
14 Then the LORD will appear 9over them, And His 10arrow will go forth like lightning; And the Lord GOD will blow the 11trumpet, And will march in the 12storm winds of the south.
15 13The LORD of hosts will defend them. And they will 14devour and trample on the 15sling stones; And they will drink and be 16boisterous as with wine; And they will be filled like a sacrificial basin, Drenched like the 17corners of the altar.
16 And the LORD their God will 18save them in that day As the flock of His people; For they are as the stones of a 19crown, Sparkling in His land.
17 For what 20comeliness and 21beauty will be theirs! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

Cross References 21

  • 1. Exodus 24:8; Hebrews 10:2
  • 2. Isaiah 24:22; Isaiah 51:14
  • 3. Jeremiah 16:19; Joel 3:16
  • 4. Jeremiah 14:8; Jeremiah 17:13; Hebrews 6:18, 19
  • 5. Isaiah 61:7
  • 6. Jeremiah 51:20
  • 7. Joel 3:6
  • 8. Psalms 45:3
  • 9. Isaiah 31:5; Zechariah 2:5
  • 10. Psalms 18:14; Habakkuk 3:11
  • 11. Isaiah 27:13
  • 12. Isaiah 21:1; Isaiah 66:15
  • 13. Isaiah 37:35; Zechariah 12:8
  • 14. Zechariah 12:6
  • 15. Job 41:28
  • 16. Psalms 78:65
  • 17. Exodus 27:2
  • 18. Jeremiah 31:10, 11
  • 19. Isaiah 62:3
  • 20. Jeremiah 31:12, 14
  • 21. Psalms 27:4; Isaiah 33:17

Footnotes 8

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