Zechariah 9:9-16

English Standard Version

^9 (A)Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
    Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
^(B)Behold, ^(C)your king is coming to you;
    righteous and having salvation is he,
^(D)humble and mounted on a donkey,
    on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
^10 (E)I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
    and ^(F)the war horse from Jerusalem;
and the battle bow shall be cut off,
    and ^(G)he shall speak peace to the nations;
^(H)his rule shall be from sea to sea,
    and from ^(I)the River^[a] to the ends of the earth.
¹¹ As for you also, because of ^(J)the blood of my covenant with you,
    ^(K)I will set your prisoners free from ^(L)the waterless pit.
¹² Return to your stronghold, O ^(M)prisoners of hope;
    today I declare that ^(N)I will restore to you double.
¹³ For ^(O)I have bent Judah as my bow;
    I have made Ephraim its arrow.
I will stir up your sons, O Zion,
    against your sons, ^(P)O Greece,
    and wield you like a warrior's sword.

¹⁴ Then the Lord will appear over them,
    and ^(Q)his arrow will go forth like lightning;
^(R)the Lord God will sound the trumpet
    and will march forth in ^(S)the whirlwinds ^(T)of the south.
¹⁵ The Lord of hosts ^(U)will protect them,
    and ^(V)they shall devour, ^(W)and tread down the sling stones,
and ^(X)they shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine,
    and be full like a bowl,
    drenched ^(Y)like the corners of the altar.