New American Standard Bible 1995

Zechariah 9:12-17

12Return to the 1 2stronghold, O prisoners 3who have the 4hope; This very day I am declaring that I will restore 5double to you.13For I will 6bend Judah 7as My bow, I will fill the bow with Ephraim. And I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O 8Greece; And I will make you like a 9warrior’s sword.14Then the Lord will appear 10over them, And His 11arrow will go forth like lightning; And the Lord 12God will blow the 13trumpet, And will march in the 14storm winds of the south.15 15The Lord of hosts will defend them. And they will 16devour and trample on the 17sling stones; And they will drink and be 18boisterous as with wine; And they will be filled like a sacrificial basin, Drenched like the 19corners of the altar.16And the Lord their God will 20save them in that day As the flock of His people; For they are as the stones of a 21crown, 22Sparkling in His land.17For what 23 24comeliness and 25beauty will be 26theirs! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

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Notes

1. Zechariah 9:12 Or Stronghold ↩
2. Zechariah 9:12 Jer 16:19; Joel 3:16 ↩
3. Zechariah 9:12 Lit of the hope ↩
4. Zechariah 9:12 Jer 14:8; 17:13; Heb 6:18, 19 ↩
5. Zechariah 9:12 Is 61:7 ↩
6. Zechariah 9:13 Jer 51:20 ↩
7. Zechariah 9:13 Lit for Me ↩
8. Zechariah 9:13 Joel 3:6 ↩
9. Zechariah 9:13 Ps 45:3 ↩
10. Zechariah 9:14 Is 31:5; Zech 2:5 ↩
11. Zechariah 9:14 Ps 18:14; Hab 3:11 ↩
12. Zechariah 9:14 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord ↩
13. Zechariah 9:14 Is 27:13 ↩
14. Zechariah 9:14 Is 21:1; 66:15 ↩
15. Zechariah 9:15 Is 37:35; Zech 12:8 ↩
16. Zechariah 9:15 Zech 12:6 ↩
17. Zechariah 9:15 Job 41:28 ↩
18. Zechariah 9:15 Ps 78:65 ↩
19. Zechariah 9:15 Ex 27:2 ↩
20. Zechariah 9:16 Jer 31:10, 11 ↩
21. Zechariah 9:16 Is 62:3 ↩
22. Zechariah 9:16 Or Displayed over ↩
23. Zechariah 9:17 Lit goodness ↩
24. Zechariah 9:17 Jer 31:12, 14 ↩
25. Zechariah 9:17 Ps 27:4; Is 33:17 ↩
26. Zechariah 9:17 Lit his ↩

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