Prophecies against Neighboring Nations

The pronouncement of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach, with (A)Damascus as its resting place (for the eyes of mankind, especially of all the tribes of Israel, are toward the Lord),

And (B)Hamath also, which borders on it;
(C)Tyre and (D)Sidon, [a]though [b]they are (E)very wise.
For Tyre built herself a (F)fortress,
And (G)piled up silver like dust,
And (H)gold like the mud of the streets.
Behold, the Lord will (I)dispossess her
And throw her wealth into the sea;
And she will be (J)consumed with fire.
Ashkelon will see it and be afraid.
Gaza too will writhe in great pain;
Also Ekron, because her hope has been ruined.
Moreover, the king will perish from Gaza,
And Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
And a people of mixed origins will live in (K)Ashdod,
And I will eliminate the pride of the Philistines.
And I will remove their blood from their mouth
And their detestable things from between their teeth.
Then they also will be a remnant for our God,
And be like a [c]clan in Judah,
And Ekron will be like a Jebusite.
But I will camp around My house [d]because of an army,
Because of (L)him who passes by and returns;
And (M)no oppressor will pass over them anymore,
For now I have seen with My eyes.
(N)Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion!
Shout in triumph, daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your (O)king is coming to you;
He is [e](P)righteous and (Q)endowed with salvation,
(R)Humble, and mounted on a donkey,
Even on a (S)colt, the [f]foal of a donkey.
10 And I will (T)eliminate the chariot from Ephraim
And the (U)horse from Jerusalem;
And the (V)bow of war will be eliminated.
And He will speak (W)peace to the nations;
And His (X)dominion will be from sea to sea,
And from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.

Restoration of Judah and Ephraim

11 As for you also, because of the (Y)blood of My covenant with you,
I have set your (Z)prisoners free from the [g]waterless pit.
12 Return to the [h](AA)stronghold, you prisoners [i]who have the (AB)hope;
This very day I am declaring that I will restore (AC)double to you.
13 For I will (AD)bend Judah [j]as My bow,
I will fill the bow with Ephraim.
And I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, (AE)Greece;
And I will make you like a (AF)warrior’s sword.
14 Then the Lord will appear (AG)over them,
And His (AH)arrow will go forth like lightning;
And the Lord [k]God will blow the (AI)trumpet,
And march in the (AJ)storm winds of the south.
15 (AK)The Lord of armies will protect them.
And they will (AL)devour and trample on the (AM)slingstones;
And they will drink and be (AN)boisterous as with wine;
And they will be filled like a sacrificial basin,
Drenched like the (AO)corners of the altar.
16 And the Lord their God will (AP)save them on that day
As the flock of His people;
For they are like the precious stones of a (AQ)crown,
Sparkling on His land.
17 For how great will [l]their (AR)loveliness and (AS)beauty be!
Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the virgins.

God Will Bless Judah and Ephraim

10 Ask for (AT)rain from the Lord at the time of the spring rain—

The Lord who (AU)makes the [m]storm winds;
And He will give them (AV)showers of rain, vegetation in the field to each person.
For the [n](AW)household idols speak deception,
And the (AX)diviners see [o]an illusion
And tell (AY)deceitful dreams;
They comfort in vain.
Therefore the people [p]wander like (AZ)sheep,
They are wretched because there is no shepherd.
“My (BA)anger is kindled against the shepherds,
And I will punish the [q]male goats;
For the Lord of armies has (BB)visited His flock, the house of Judah,
And will make them like His majestic horse in battle.
From [r]them will come the (BC)cornerstone,
From [s]them the tent peg,
From [t]them the bow of (BD)battle,
From [u]them every tyrant, all of them together.
And they will be like warriors,
(BE)Trampling down the enemy in the mud of the streets in battle;
And they will fight, because the Lord will be with them;
And the (BF)riders on horses will be put to shame.
And I will (BG)strengthen the house of Judah,
And I will (BH)save the house of Joseph,
And I will [v](BI)bring them back,
Because I have had (BJ)compassion on them;
And they will be as though I had (BK)not rejected them,
For I am the Lord their God and I will (BL)answer them.
Ephraim will be like a warrior,
And their heart will be joyful as if from wine;
Indeed, their (BM)children will see it and be joyful,
[w]Their heart will rejoice in the Lord.
I will (BN)whistle for them and gather them together,
For I have redeemed them;
And they will be as (BO)numerous as they [x](BP)were before.
When I [y]scatter them among the peoples,
They will (BQ)remember Me in distant countries,
And they with their children will live and come back.
10 I will (BR)bring them back from the land of Egypt
And gather them from Assyria;
And I will bring them into the land of (BS)Gilead and Lebanon
[z]Until (BT)no room can be found for them.
11 And they will pass through the (BU)sea of distress
And He will strike the waves in the sea,
So that all the depths of the (BV)Nile will dry up;
And the pride of (BW)Assyria will be brought down,
And the scepter of (BX)Egypt will depart.
12 And I will (BY)strengthen them in the Lord,
And in His name (BZ)they will walk,” declares the Lord.

The Doomed Flock

11 Open your doors, Lebanon,

So that a (CA)fire may feed on your (CB)cedars.
Wail, juniper, because the cedar has fallen,
For the magnificent trees have been destroyed;
Wail, oaks of Bashan,
Because the [aa]impenetrable forest has come down.
There is a sound of the shepherds’ (CC)wail,
For their splendor is ruined;
There is a (CD)sound of the young lions’ roar,
For the [ab]pride of the Jordan is ruined.

This is what the Lord my God says: “Pasture the flock doomed to (CE)slaughter. Those who buy them slaughter them and [ac]go (CF)unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for (CG)I have become rich!’ And their (CH)own shepherds have no compassion for them. For I will (CI)no longer have compassion for the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will (CJ)let the people fall, each into another’s [ad]power and into the [ae]power of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will (CK)not rescue them from their [af]power.”

So I (CL)pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, [ag]therefore also the (CM)afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two (CN)staffs: the one I called [ah](CO)Favor, and the other I called (CP)Union; so I pastured the flock. Then I did away with the three shepherds in (CQ)one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also [ai]was tired of me. Then I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to (CR)die, [aj]let it die, and what is to perish, [ak]let it perish; and [al]let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.” 10 And I took my staff [am](CS)Favor and cut it in pieces, to [an](CT)break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples. 11 So it was [ao]broken on that day, and [ap]so the (CU)afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the Lord. 12 And I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my (CV)wages; but if not, [aq]never mind!” So they weighed out (CW)thirty shekels of silver as my wages. 13 Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the (CX)potter, that magnificent price at which I was valued by them.” So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the Lord. 14 Then I cut in pieces my second staff (CY)Union, to (CZ)break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

15 And the Lord said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment of a (DA)foolish shepherd. 16 For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will (DB)not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or provide for the one who is exhausted, but will (DC)devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.

17 (DD)Woe to the worthless shepherd
Who abandons the flock!
A (DE)sword will be on his arm
And on his right eye!
His (DF)arm will be totally withered,
And his right eye will be [ar]blind.”

Jerusalem to Be Attacked

12 The pronouncement of the word of the Lord concerning Israel:

The Lord who (DG)stretches out the heavens, (DH)lays the foundation of the earth, and (DI)forms the spirit of a person within him, declares: “Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a (DJ)cup [as]that causes staggering to all the peoples around; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against (DK)Judah. It will come about on that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy (DL)stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will (DM)injure themselves severely. And all the (DN)nations of the earth will be gathered against it. On that day,” declares the Lord, “I will strike every horse with confusion and its rider with insanity. But I will [at]watch over the house of Judah, while I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. Then the [au]clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are a [av]strong support for us through the Lord of armies, their God.’

“On that day I will make the [aw]clans of Judah like a (DO)firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves, so they will consume on the right and on the left all the surrounding peoples, while [ax]the (DP)inhabitants of Jerusalem again live on their own sites in Jerusalem. The Lord also will (DQ)save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of (DR)David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be greater than Judah. On that day the Lord will (DS)protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who [ay](DT)is feeble among them on that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like (DU)God, like the (DV)angel of the Lord before them. And on that day I will (DW)seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

10 “And I will (DX)pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem [az]the Spirit of grace and of pleading, so that they will look at Me whom they (DY)pierced; and they will mourn for Him, like one (DZ)mourning for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn. 11 On that day the (EA)mourning in Jerusalem will be great, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the [ba]plain of [bb]Megiddo. 12 The land will mourn, every family by itself; the family of the house of David by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves; 13 the family of the house of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself and their wives by themselves; 14 all the families that are left, every family by itself, and their wives by themselves.

Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 9:2 Or because
  2. Zechariah 9:2 I.e., they think they are
  3. Zechariah 9:7 Or chief
  4. Zechariah 9:8 Or as a garrison, so that none will go back and forth
  5. Zechariah 9:9 Or vindicated and victorious
  6. Zechariah 9:9 Lit son of a female donkey
  7. Zechariah 9:11 Lit cistern in which there is no water
  8. Zechariah 9:12 Or Stronghold
  9. Zechariah 9:12 Lit of the hope
  10. Zechariah 9:13 Lit for Me as a bow
  11. Zechariah 9:14 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
  12. Zechariah 9:17 Lit his
  13. Zechariah 10:1 Or thunderbolts
  14. Zechariah 10:2 Heb teraphim
  15. Zechariah 10:2 Lit a lie
  16. Zechariah 10:2 Lit journey
  17. Zechariah 10:3 I.e., leaders
  18. Zechariah 10:4 Lit him
  19. Zechariah 10:4 Lit him
  20. Zechariah 10:4 Lit him
  21. Zechariah 10:4 Lit him
  22. Zechariah 10:6 Another reading is have them dwell
  23. Zechariah 10:7 Or Let their heart rejoice
  24. Zechariah 10:8 Lit were numerous
  25. Zechariah 10:9 Lit sow
  26. Zechariah 10:10 Lit And
  27. Zechariah 11:2 Another reading is forest of the vintage
  28. Zechariah 11:3 Or thicket
  29. Zechariah 11:5 Lit are not held guilty
  30. Zechariah 11:6 Lit hand
  31. Zechariah 11:6 Lit hand
  32. Zechariah 11:6 Lit hand
  33. Zechariah 11:7 Another reading is for the sheep dealers
  34. Zechariah 11:7 Or Pleasantness
  35. Zechariah 11:8 Or detested
  36. Zechariah 11:9 Or will die
  37. Zechariah 11:9 Or will perish
  38. Zechariah 11:9 Or those...will eat
  39. Zechariah 11:10 Or Pleasantness
  40. Zechariah 11:10 Or annul
  41. Zechariah 11:11 Or annulled
  42. Zechariah 11:11 Another reading is the sheep dealers who
  43. Zechariah 11:12 Lit cease
  44. Zechariah 11:17 Lit completely dimmed
  45. Zechariah 12:2 Lit of reeling
  46. Zechariah 12:4 Lit open My eyes
  47. Zechariah 12:5 Or chiefs
  48. Zechariah 12:5 Lit strength for me
  49. Zechariah 12:6 Or chiefs
  50. Zechariah 12:6 Lit Jerusalem...is again inhabited on its
  51. Zechariah 12:8 Lit stumbles
  52. Zechariah 12:10 Or a spirit
  53. Zechariah 12:11 I.e., broad valley
  54. Zechariah 12:11 Heb Megiddon

Satan Bound

20 Then I saw (A)an angel coming down from heaven, holding the (B)key of the abyss and a great chain [a]in his hand. And he took hold of the (C)dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and (D)bound him for a thousand years; and he threw him into the (E)abyss and shut it and (F)sealed it over him, so that he would (G)not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.

Then I saw (H)thrones, and (I)they sat on them, and (J)judgment was given to them. And I saw (K)the souls of those who had been beheaded because of [b]their (L)testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not (M)worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the (N)mark on their foreheads and on their hands; and they (O)came to life and (P)reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. (Q)This is the first resurrection. (R)Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the (S)second death has no power, but they will be (T)priests of God and of Christ, and will (U)reign with Him for a thousand years.

Satan Freed and Doomed

When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be (V)released from his prison, and will come out to (W)deceive the nations which are at the (X)four corners of the earth, (Y)Gog and Magog, to (Z)gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the (AA)sand of the [c]seashore. And they (AB)came up on the [d]broad plain of the earth and surrounded the (AC)camp of the [e]saints and the (AD)beloved city, and (AE)fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10 And (AF)the devil who (AG)deceived them was thrown into the (AH)lake of fire and [f]brimstone, where the (AI)beast and the (AJ)false prophet are also; and they will be (AK)tormented day and night forever and ever.

Judgment at the Throne of God

11 Then I saw a great white (AL)throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose [g]presence (AM)earth and heaven fled, and (AN)no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, the (AO)great and the small, standing before the throne, and [h](AP)books were opened; and another [i]book was opened, which is (AQ)the book of life; and the dead (AR)were judged from the things which were written in the [j]books, (AS)according to their deeds. 13 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and (AT)Death and Hades (AU)gave up the dead who were in them; and they were judged, each one of them (AV)according to their deeds. 14 Then (AW)Death and Hades were thrown into (AX)the lake of fire. This is the (AY)second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if [k]anyone’s name was not found written in (AZ)the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Footnotes

  1. Revelation 20:1 Lit upon
  2. Revelation 20:4 Lit the
  3. Revelation 20:8 Lit sea
  4. Revelation 20:9 Lit breadth of the earth
  5. Revelation 20:9 Lit holy ones; i.e., God’s people
  6. Revelation 20:10 I.e., burning sulfur
  7. Revelation 20:11 Lit face
  8. Revelation 20:12 Or scrolls
  9. Revelation 20:12 Or scroll
  10. Revelation 20:12 Or scrolls
  11. Revelation 20:15 Lit anyone was not

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