Zechariah 9-12
New American Standard Bible
Prophecies against Neighboring Nations
9 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),
2 And (B)Hamath also, which borders on it;
(C)Tyre and (D)Sidon, [a]though [b]they are (E)very wise.
3 For Tyre built herself a (F)fortress,
And (G)piled up silver like dust,
And (H)gold like the mud of the streets.
4 Behold, the Lord will (I)dispossess her
And throw her wealth into the sea;
And she will be (J)consumed with fire.
5 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.
6 And a people of mixed origins will live in (K)Ashdod,
And I will eliminate the pride of the Philistines.
7 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.
8 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.
9 (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.
2 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.
3 “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.
4 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.
5 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.
6 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.
7 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.
8 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.
9 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.
2 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.
3 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.
4 This is what the Lord my God says: “Pasture the flock doomed to (CE)slaughter. 5 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. 6 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.”
7 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. 8 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. 9 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: 2 “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. 3 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. 4 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. 5 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.’
6 “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. 7 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. 8 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. 9 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
- Zechariah 9:2 Or because
- Zechariah 9:2 I.e., they think they are
- Zechariah 9:7 Or chief
- Zechariah 9:8 Or as a garrison, so that none will go back and forth
- Zechariah 9:9 Or vindicated and victorious
- Zechariah 9:9 Lit son of a female donkey
- Zechariah 9:11 Lit cistern in which there is no water
- Zechariah 9:12 Or Stronghold
- Zechariah 9:12 Lit of the hope
- Zechariah 9:13 Lit for Me as a bow
- Zechariah 9:14 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
- Zechariah 9:17 Lit his
- Zechariah 10:1 Or thunderbolts
- Zechariah 10:2 Heb teraphim
- Zechariah 10:2 Lit a lie
- Zechariah 10:2 Lit journey
- Zechariah 10:3 I.e., leaders
- Zechariah 10:4 Lit him
- Zechariah 10:4 Lit him
- Zechariah 10:4 Lit him
- Zechariah 10:4 Lit him
- Zechariah 10:6 Another reading is have them dwell
- Zechariah 10:7 Or Let their heart rejoice
- Zechariah 10:8 Lit were numerous
- Zechariah 10:9 Lit sow
- Zechariah 10:10 Lit And
- Zechariah 11:2 Another reading is forest of the vintage
- Zechariah 11:3 Or thicket
- Zechariah 11:5 Lit are not held guilty
- Zechariah 11:6 Lit hand
- Zechariah 11:6 Lit hand
- Zechariah 11:6 Lit hand
- Zechariah 11:7 Another reading is for the sheep dealers
- Zechariah 11:7 Or Pleasantness
- Zechariah 11:8 Or detested
- Zechariah 11:9 Or will die
- Zechariah 11:9 Or will perish
- Zechariah 11:9 Or those...will eat
- Zechariah 11:10 Or Pleasantness
- Zechariah 11:10 Or annul
- Zechariah 11:11 Or annulled
- Zechariah 11:11 Another reading is the sheep dealers who
- Zechariah 11:12 Lit cease
- Zechariah 11:17 Lit completely dimmed
- Zechariah 12:2 Lit of reeling
- Zechariah 12:4 Lit open My eyes
- Zechariah 12:5 Or chiefs
- Zechariah 12:5 Lit strength for me
- Zechariah 12:6 Or chiefs
- Zechariah 12:6 Lit Jerusalem...is again inhabited on its
- Zechariah 12:8 Lit stumbles
- Zechariah 12:10 Or a spirit
- Zechariah 12:11 I.e., broad valley
- Zechariah 12:11 Heb Megiddon
Luke 23:26-56
New American Standard Bible
Simon Carries the Cross
26 (A)And when they led Him away, they seized a man, Simon of (B)Cyrene, as he was coming in from the country, and placed on him the cross to carry behind Jesus.
27 Now following Him was a large crowd of the people, and of women who were [a](C)mourning and grieving for Him. 28 But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For behold, days are coming when they will say, ‘(D)Blessed are those who cannot bear, and the wombs that have not given birth, and the breasts that have not nursed.’ 30 Then they will begin to (E)say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ 31 For if they do these things [b]when the tree is green, what will happen [c]when it is dry?”
32 (F)Now two others, who were criminals, were also being led away to be put to death with Him.
The Crucifixion
33 (G)And when they came to the place called [d]The Skull, there they crucified Him and the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left. 34 [[e]But Jesus was saying, “(H)Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.”] (I)And they cast lots, dividing His garments among themselves. 35 And the people stood by, watching. And even the (J)rulers were sneering at Him, saying, “He saved others; (K)let Him save Himself if this is the [f]Christ of God, His Chosen One.” 36 The soldiers also ridiculed Him, coming up to Him, (L)offering Him sour wine, 37 and saying, “(M)If You are the King of the Jews, save Yourself!” 38 Now there was also an inscription above Him, “(N)THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
39 (O)One of the criminals who were hanged there was [g]hurling abuse at Him, saying, “Are You not the [h]Christ? (P)Save Yourself and us!” 40 But the other responded, and rebuking him, said, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41 And we indeed are suffering justly, for we are receiving [i]what we deserve for our crimes; but this Man has done nothing wrong.” 42 And he was saying, “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom!” 43 And He said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you will be with Me in (Q)Paradise.”
44 (R)It was now about [j](S)the sixth hour, and darkness came over the entire land until [k]the ninth hour, 45 [l]because the sun stopped shining; and (T)the veil of the temple was torn [m]in two. 46 And Jesus, (U)crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, (V)into Your hands I entrust My spirit.” And having said this, He [n]died. 47 (W)Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he began (X)praising God, saying, “This Man was in fact [o]innocent.” 48 And all the crowds who came together for this spectacle, after watching what had happened, began to return home, [p](Y)beating their chests. 49 (Z)And all His acquaintances and (AA)the women who accompanied Him from Galilee were standing at a distance, seeing these things.
Jesus Is Buried
50 (AB)And a man named Joseph, who was a (AC)member of the Council, a good and righteous man 51 (he had not consented to their plan and action), a man from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who was (AD)waiting for the kingdom of God— 52 this man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 53 And he took it down and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid Him in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had ever lain. 54 It was a [q](AE)preparation day, and a Sabbath was about to [r]begin. 55 Now (AF)the women who had come with Him from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how His body was laid. 56 And then they returned and (AG)prepared spices and perfumes.
And (AH)on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Luke 23:27 Lit beating their breasts
- Luke 23:31 Lit in the green tree
- Luke 23:31 Lit in the dry
- Luke 23:33 Gr Kranion, Lat Calvaria (Calvary)
- Luke 23:34 Most early mss do not contain But Jesus was saying...doing
- Luke 23:35 I.e., Messiah
- Luke 23:39 Or blaspheming
- Luke 23:39 I.e., Messiah
- Luke 23:41 Lit things worthy of what we have done
- Luke 23:44 I.e., noon
- Luke 23:44 I.e., 3 p.m.
- Luke 23:45 Lit the sun failing
- Luke 23:45 Lit in the middle
- Luke 23:46 Lit expired
- Luke 23:47 Lit righteous
- Luke 23:48 I.e., as a traditional sign of mourning or contrition
- Luke 23:54 I.e., preparation for the Sabbath
- Luke 23:54 Lit dawn
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