Zechariah 9:1-17
9 * The boding of Jehovah’s word in Hadrac, its resting-place Damascus; for Jehovah’s are the eyes of mankind, and all the tribes of Israel;
2 Hamath too, bordering on it; Tyre and Sidon, very wise as they are.
3 And Tyre built itself siege-works and piled up silver like earth and hard gold like street mud.
4 Here Jehovah will dispossess her and knock her wealth into the sea, and she will be consumed by fire.
5 * Ashkelon will see and be afraid; Ghaza, and be utterly unmanned; and ʽEkron, because her cynosure has come to grief and king is lost to Ghaza; and Ashkelon will be uninhabited.
6 And a mongrel rabble will live in Ashdod, and I will abolish the Philistines’ pride;
7 and I will take out its blood from its mouth and its carrion from between its teeth, and it too will be left belonging to our God, and be like a privileged guest in Judah, and ʽEkron like a Jebusite.
8 *** And I will camp as garrison for my house against comer and goer, and never again shall a coercer pass through them; for now I have seen with my own eyes.
9 Jubilate most gayly, daughter of Sion; cheer, daughter of Jerusalem; here you shall have your kind come in; just and victorious is he, poor and mounted on a donkey, on a young beast born of donkeys.
10 * And he will abolish chariots from Ephraim and ponies from Jerusalem, and war-bows will be abolished, and he will pronounce peace to the nations; and his rule will be from sea to sea and from River to ends of earth.
11 Your prisoners too for your covenant blood I have let go out of the dry cistern.
12 ** The prisoners of hope shall come back to you, Sion, today too; double dower I will bring back to you.
13 For I have bent Judah for my bow, put Ephraim in for arrow; and I will rouse your sons, Sion, against the sons of Greece, and make you like a champion’s sword.
14 And Jehovah will appear over them, and his arrow will go out like the lightning; and the Lord Jehovah will blow the ram-horn and go with southern tempests.
15 *** Jehovah of Armies will shield them, and they will eat up and stamp down slingstones and drink their blood like wine, and be filled like a sacrificer’s bowl, like the corners of an altar,
16 * and their God Jehovah will give them the victory. On that day his people’s sheep will be like sparkling diadem-stones over his soil.
17 For how good and what a beauty-giver is he! grain will ripen young men, grape-juice maidens.
Footnotes
^ 9:1 Susp.
^ 9:5 Var. her reliance
^ 9:8 Codd.* camp for my house to keep off any army, comer and goer
^ 9:8 Lit. against passerby and goer back
^ 9:8 Conj. I have looked upon their wretched state
^ 9:10 Var. And I will
^ 9:12 Codd. Come back to a fortification (unc.), prisoners of hope, today
^ 9:12 Codd. today too announces, double I will bring back
^ 9:15 Var. will use up and Conj. will win and
^ 9:15 (slingstones) Conj. the sons of (some foreign country, it is not clear what one)
^ 9:15 Conj. drink blood Var. and make an uproar as if over wine
^ 9:16 Codd. victory on that day like his people’s sheep, for diademstones are sparkling over
