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Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
    Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Look! Your king comes to you;
    he is righteous and victorious,
humble and riding on a donkey,
    and on a male donkey, the foal of[a] a female donkey!
10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim,
    and the horse from Jerusalem;
the battle bow will be cut down,
    and he will announce peace to the nations.
His dominion will be from sea to sea,
    and from the River[b] to the ends of the earth.
11 As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant,
    I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.[c]
12 Return to the fortress,
    O prisoners of hope;
today I am declaring that I will repay you double.
13 For I have bent Judah as my bow;
    I have set Ephraim as an arrow.
I will set in motion your sons, O Zion,
    against your sons, O Javan.[d]
I will wield you like the sword of a warrior.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 9:9 Literally “the son of ”
  2. Zechariah 9:10 That is, the Euphrates
  3. Zechariah 9:11 Literally “the cistern there is not water in him”
  4. Zechariah 9:13 That is, Greece