Zechariah 2:7-9
Good News Translation
The Exiles Are Called to Come Home
6-7 The Lord said to his people, “I scattered you in all directions. But now, you exiles, escape from Babylonia and return to Jerusalem. 8 Anyone who strikes you strikes what is most precious to me.”
So the Lord Almighty[a] sent me with this message for the nations that had plundered his people: 9 “The Lord himself will fight against you, and you will be plundered by the people who were once your servants.”
When this happens, everyone will know that the Lord Almighty sent me.
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- Zechariah 2:8 Hebrew has two additional words, the meaning of which is unclear.
Zechariah 2:7-9
New International Version
7 “Come, Zion! Escape,(A) you who live in Daughter Babylon!”(B) 8 For this is what the Lord Almighty says: “After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye(C)— 9 I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them.[a](D) Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me.(E)
Footnotes
- Zechariah 2:9 Or says after … eye: 9 “I … plunder them.”
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