Zechariah 10:1-9

The LORD Will Care for Judah

1 Ask the LORD for rain in the springtime; it is the LORD who sends the thunderstorms. He gives showers of rain to all people, and plants of the field to everyone.
2 The idols speak deceitfully, diviners see visions that lie; they tell dreams that are false, they give comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep oppressed for lack of a shepherd.
3 “My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the LORD Almighty will care for his flock, the people of Judah, and make them like a proud horse in battle.
4 From Judah will come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler.
5 Together they[a] will be like warriors in battle trampling their enemy into the mud of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the enemy horsemen to shame.
6 “I will strengthen Judah and save the tribes of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them. They will be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the LORD their God and I will answer them.
7 The Ephraimites will become like warriors, and their hearts will be glad as with wine. Their children will see it and be joyful; their hearts will rejoice in the LORD.
8 I will signal for them and gather them in. Surely I will redeem them; they will be as numerous as before.
9 Though I scatter them among the peoples, yet in distant lands they will remember me. They and their children will survive, and they will return.

Cross References 23

  • 1. S Leviticus 26:4; S 1 Kings 8:36; S Psalms 104:13; S Psalms 135:7
  • 2. S Job 14:9
  • 3. Ezekiel 21:21
  • 4. S Isaiah 44:25
  • 5. Jeremiah 23:16
  • 6. S Isaiah 40:19
  • 7. S Numbers 27:17; S Jeremiah 23:1; Ezekiel 34:5; S Hosea 3:4; S Matthew 9:36
  • 8. Isaiah 14:9; S Jeremiah 25:34
  • 9. S Ezekiel 34:8-10
  • 10. S Psalms 118:22; S Acts 4:11
  • 11. S Isaiah 22:23
  • 12. S Zechariah 9:10
  • 13. S 2 Samuel 22:43; S Micah 7:10
  • 14. S Amos 2:15; S Micah 5:8; Haggai 2:22; Zechariah 12:4
  • 15. S Ezekiel 30:24
  • 16. S Psalms 102:13; S Isaiah 14:1
  • 17. S Ezekiel 36:37; Ezekiel 37:19; S Zechariah 8:7-8
  • 18. Psalms 34:17; Isaiah 58:9; Isaiah 65:24; Zechariah 13:9
  • 19. Zechariah 9:15
  • 20. S 1 Samuel 2:1; S Isaiah 60:5; S Joel 2:23
  • 21. Isaiah 5:26
  • 22. S Jeremiah 33:22; S Ezekiel 36:11
  • 23. S Isaiah 44:21; S Ezekiel 6:9

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or "ruler, all of them together." / 5"They"
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