God promises to punish from several peoples - Zechariah 9

God promises to punish from several peoples

1 - THE WEIGHT of the word of the LORD against the land of Hadrach, and Damascus, his rest; for the eyes of man, and of all the tribes of Israel, turn unto the LORD.

2 - And Hamath also, that lieth with it, and Tire and Sidon, though they be wiser.

3 - And Tire buildeth for himself strongholds, and heapth up silver as dust, and gold as fine as the mire of the streets.

4 - Behold, the Lord shall plunder her, and shall smite her in the sea, and she shall be consumed with fire.

5 - Ascalon shall see and fear him; also Gaza, and will be in great pain; equally Ecrom; for his hope shall be confounded; and the king of Gaza shall perish, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

6 - And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

7 - And out of his mouth I will take away his blood, and his abominations from his teeth; and he shall remain as a remnant to our God; and he shall be ruler over Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.

8 - And I will encamp round about my house, against the host, that no man go in, nor come back; that the oppressor may not pass over them again; because now I have seen with my eyes.

9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; rejoice, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, thy king shall come unto thee, righteous and poor, and poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

10 - And I will cut off the chariots from Ephraim, and the horses from Jerusalem; and the bow of war shall be destroyed, and he shall declare peace to the Gentiles; and his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.

11 - And as for thee, because of the blood of thy covenant, I have delivered thy prisoners from the pit where there was no water.

12 - Return to the stronghold, O ye prisoners of hope; even today I declare to you that I will restore you double.

13 - Because I bowed down Judah to me, I filled the bow with Ephraim; I will raise up thy children, O Zion, against thy children, O Greece! And I will put thee, O Zion, as the sword of a mighty one.

14 And the LORD shall be seen upon them, and his arrows shall go forth as the lightning; and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with the whirlwinds of the south.

15 - The LORD of hosts shall preserve them; they shall devour, after they have subdued them, the stones of the sling; they will drink and make noise as if aroused by wine; and they shall be filled as the basins of sacrifice, as the corners of the altar.

16 - And the LORD their God shall save them in that day, as the flock of his people: for as the stones of a crown shall they shine in their land.

17 - For how great is thy goodness! And how great is his beauty! The wheat will make the young men flourish and the virgin wine.

The promises of God made to Israel - Zechariah 10

The promises made to Israel

1 - I asked the LORD for rain in the time of the latter rain, even unto the LORD that maketh lightnings; and he shall give them showers of rain, and every herb in the field.

2 - For the idols speak vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and tell false dreams; with vanity comfort, therefore they go their way like sheep; they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.

3 - Against the shepherds my anger is kindled, and I will punish the goats; but the LORD of hosts will visit his flock, the house of Judah, and he will make them like his mighty horse in battle.

4 - Out of him shall come forth the corner stone, and his bow, from him the bow of war, from him shall all the oppressor go forth together.

5 And they shall be as mighty men who in battle shall crush the enemy in the mire of the streets; for the LORD will be with them; and they shall confound them that ride upon horses.

6 - And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again, because I have compassion on them; and they shall be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the LORD their God, and I will hear them.

7 And the men of Ephraim shall be as a mighty man, and his heart shall be glad as with wine; and his sons shall summer, and shall rejoice; his heart shall rejoice in the LORD.

8 - I will whistle and gather them; for I have redeemed them; and they shall multiply as before they were multiplied.

9 - Though I have scattered them among the peoples, they shall remember me in remote places; and they shall live with their children, and they shall return.

10 - For I will bring them again from the land of Egypt, and will gather them from Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, and there shall be no place enough for them.

11 And he shall pass over the sea with anguish, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall wither; then the pride of Assyria shall be overthrown, and the scepter of Egypt shall withdraw.

12 - And I will strengthen them in the LORD, and they shall walk in his name, saith the LORD.