20 Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen.

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(A)“My anger is hot against the shepherds,
    and (B)I will punish the leaders;[a]
for (C)the Lord of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah,
    and will make them like his majestic steed in battle.
From him shall come (D)the cornerstone,
    from him (E)the tent peg,
from him the battle bow,
    from him every ruler—(F)all of them together.
They shall be like mighty men in battle,
    (G)trampling the foe in the mud of the streets;
they shall fight because the Lord is with them,
    and they shall put to shame (H)the riders on horses.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 10:3 Hebrew the male goats

“Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem (A)a cup of staggering to (B)all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem (C)will also be against Judah. (D)On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. (E)All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And (F)all the nations of the earth will gather against it. (G)On that day, declares the Lord, (H)I will strike every horse (I)with panic, and its rider (J)with madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when I strike every horse of the peoples (K)with blindness. Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through the Lord of hosts, their God.’

(L)“On that day I will make the clans of Judah (M)like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And (N)they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while (O)Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.

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12 Return to your stronghold, O (A)prisoners of hope;
    today I declare that (B)I will restore to you double.
13 For (C)I have bent Judah as my bow;
    I have made Ephraim its arrow.
I will stir up your sons, O Zion,
    against your sons, (D)O Greece,
    and wield you like a warrior's sword.

The Lord Will Save His People

14 Then the Lord will appear over them,
    and (E)his arrow will go forth like lightning;
(F)the Lord God will sound the trumpet
    and will march forth in (G)the whirlwinds (H)of the south.
15 The Lord of hosts (I)will protect them,
    and (J)they shall devour, (K)and tread down the sling stones,
and (L)they shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine,
    and be full like a bowl,
    drenched (M)like the corners of the altar.

16 On that day the Lord their God will save them,
    as (N)the flock of his people;
for (O)like the jewels of a crown
    they shall shine on his land.

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And (A)the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations,
    in the midst of many peoples,
like a lion among the beasts of the forest,
    like a young lion among the flocks of sheep,
(B)which, when it goes through, treads down
    and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
Your hand shall (C)be lifted up over your adversaries,
    and all your enemies shall be cut off.

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And he shall be (A)their peace.

(B)When the Assyrian comes into our land
    and treads in our palaces,
then we will raise against him seven (C)shepherds
    and eight princes of men;
they shall shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword,
    and the land of (D)Nimrod at its entrances;
and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian
    (E)when he comes into our land
    and treads within our border.

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15 (A)If anyone stirs up strife,
    it is not from me;
whoever stirs up strife with you
    shall fall because of you.
16 Behold, I have created the smith
    who blows the fire of coals
    and produces a weapon for its purpose.
I have also created the ravager to destroy;
17     no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed,
    and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord
    (B)and their vindication[a] from me, declares the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 54:17 Or righteousness

27 (A)Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer. (B)And in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them (C)saviors who saved them from the hand of their enemies.

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11 And the Lord sent (A)Jerubbaal (B)and Barak[a] (C)and Jephthah and (D)Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 12:11 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Bedan

18 “Then they journeyed through the wilderness and (A)went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and (B)arrived on the east side of the land of Moab and (C)camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.

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16 but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness (A)to the Red Sea and (B)came to Kadesh.

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25 Your bars shall be iron and bronze,
    and as your days, so shall your strength be.

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