Zechariah 9-12

English Standard Version

Judgment on Israel's Enemies

9 The oracle of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach
    and ^(A)Damascus is its resting place.
For the Lord has an eye on mankind
    and on all the tribes of Israel,^[a]
²^(B)and on Hamath also, which borders on it,
    ^(C)Tyre and ^(D)Sidon, though ^(E)they are very wise.
³Tyre has built herself ^(F)a rampart
    and ^(G)heaped up silver like dust,
    and fine gold like the mud of the streets.
⁴But behold, the Lord will strip her of her possessions
    and strike down ^(H)her power on the sea,
    and ^(I)she shall be devoured by fire.

⁵^(J)Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid;
    Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish;
    Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded.
The king shall perish from Gaza;
    Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;
⁶^(K)a mixed people^[b] shall dwell in Ashdod,
    and I will cut off the pride of Philistia.
⁷I will take away ^(L)its blood from its mouth,
    and ^(M)its abominations from between its teeth;
^(N)it too shall be a remnant for our God;
    it shall be like ^(O)a clan in Judah,
    and Ekron shall be like the Jebusites.
⁸Then ^(P)I will encamp at my house as a guard,
    ^(Q)so that none shall march to and fro;
^(R)no oppressor shall again march over them,
    ^(S)for now I see with my own eyes.

The Coming King of Zion

⁹^(T)Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
    Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
^(U)Behold, ^(V)your king is coming to you;
    righteous and having salvation is he,
^(W)humble and mounted on a donkey,
    on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
¹⁰^(X)I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
    and ^(Y)the war horse from Jerusalem;
and the battle bow shall be cut off,
    and ^(Z)he shall speak peace to the nations;
^(AA)his rule shall be from sea to sea,
    and from ^(AB)the River^[c] to the ends of the earth.
¹¹As for you also, because of ^(AC)the blood of my covenant with you,
    ^(AD)I will set your prisoners free from ^(AE)the waterless pit.
¹²Return to your stronghold, O ^(AF)prisoners of hope;
    today I declare that ^(AG)I will restore to you double.
¹³For ^(AH)I have bent Judah as my bow;
    I have made Ephraim its arrow.
I will stir up your sons, O Zion,
    against your sons, ^(AI)O Greece,
    and wield you like a warrior's sword.

The Lord Will Save His People

¹⁴Then the Lord will appear over them,
    and ^(AJ)his arrow will go forth like lightning;
^(AK)the Lord God will sound the trumpet
    and will march forth in ^(AL)the whirlwinds ^(AM)of the south.
¹⁵The Lord of hosts ^(AN)will protect them,
    and ^(AO)they shall devour, ^(AP)and tread down the sling stones,
and ^(AQ)they shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine,
    and be full like a bowl,
    drenched ^(AR)like the corners of the altar.

¹⁶On that day the Lord their God will save them,
    as ^(AS)the flock of his people;
for ^(AT)like the jewels of a crown
    they shall shine on his land.
¹⁷^(AU)For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty!
    ^(AV)Grain shall make the young men flourish,
    and new wine the young women.

The Restoration for Judah and Israel

10 Ask rain ^(AW)from the Lord
    in the season of ^(AX)the spring rain,
from the Lord ^(AY)who makes the storm clouds,
    and ^(AZ)he will give them showers of rain,
    to everyone the vegetation in the field.
²For ^(BA)the household gods ^(BB)utter nonsense,
    and the diviners see lies;
^(BC)they tell false dreams
    and give empty consolation.
Therefore ^(BD)the people wander like sheep;
    they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.

³^(BE)“My anger is hot against the shepherds,
    and ^(BF)I will punish the leaders;^[d]
for ^(BG)the Lord of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah,
    and will make them like his majestic steed in battle.
⁴From him shall come ^(BH)the cornerstone,
    from him ^(BI)the tent peg,
from him the battle bow,
    from him every ruler—^(BJ)all of them together.
⁵They shall be like mighty men in battle,
    ^(BK)trampling the foe in the mud of the streets;
they shall fight because the Lord is with them,
    and they shall put to shame ^(BL)the riders on horses.

⁶^(BM)“I will strengthen the house of Judah,
    and ^(BN)I will save the house of Joseph.
^(BO)I will bring them back ^(BP)because I have compassion on them,
    and they shall be as though I had not rejected them,
    for ^(BQ)I am the Lord their God and I will answer them.
⁷Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior,
    and ^(BR)their hearts shall be glad as with wine.
Their children shall see it and be glad;
    their hearts shall rejoice in the Lord.

⁸^(BS)“I will whistle for them and ^(BT)gather them in,
    for I have redeemed them,
    and ^(BU)they shall be as many as they were before.
⁹^(BV)Though I scattered them among the nations,
    yet in far countries ^(BW)they shall remember me,
    and with their children they shall live and return.
¹⁰^(BX)I will bring them home from the land of Egypt,
    and gather them from Assyria,
and ^(BY)I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon,
    ^(BZ)till there is no room for them.
¹¹^(CA)He shall pass through the sea of troubles
    and strike down the waves of the sea,
    ^(CB)and all the depths of the Nile shall be dried up.
The pride of Assyria shall be laid low,
    and ^(CC)the scepter of Egypt shall depart.
¹²^(CD)I will make them strong in the Lord,
    and ^(CE)they shall walk in his name,”
declares the Lord.

The Flock Doomed to Slaughter

11 Open your doors, ^(CF)O Lebanon,
    that the fire may devour your cedars!
²Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
    for the glorious trees are ruined!
Wail, ^(CG)oaks of Bashan,
    for the thick forest has been felled!
³The sound of ^(CH)the wail of ^(CI)the shepherds,
    for their glory is ruined!
The sound of the roar of ^(CJ)the lions,
    ^(CK)for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!

⁴Thus said the Lord my God: ^(CL)“Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. ⁵^(CM)Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, ^(CN)I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them. ⁶For ^(CO)I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the Lord. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”

⁷^(CP)So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named ^(CQ)Favor, the other I named ^(CR)Union. ^(CS)And I tended the sheep. ⁸In one month ^(CT)I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me. ⁹So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. ^(CU)What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another.” ¹⁰And I took ^(CV)my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples. ¹¹So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the Lord. ¹²Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages ^(CW)thirty pieces of silver. ¹³Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—^(CX)the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the ^(CY)thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter. ¹⁴Then I broke ^(CZ)my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

¹⁵Then the Lord said to me, “Take once more the equipment of ^(DA)a foolish shepherd. ¹⁶For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd ^(DB)who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but ^(DC)devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.

¹⁷^(DD)“Woe to my worthless shepherd,
    ^(DE)who deserts the flock!
May the sword strike his arm
    and ^(DF)his right eye!
Let his arm be wholly withered,
    his right eye utterly blinded!”

The Lord Will Give Salvation

12 ^(DG)The oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, ^(DH)who stretched out the heavens and ^(DI)founded the earth and ^(DJ)formed the spirit of man within him: ²“Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem ^(DK)a cup of staggering to ^(DL)all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem ^(DM)will also be against Judah. ³^(DN)On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. ^(DO)All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And ^(DP)all the nations of the earth will gather against it. ⁴^(DQ)On that day, declares the Lord, ^(DR)I will strike every horse ^(DS)with panic, and its rider ^(DT)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 ^(DU)with blindness. ⁵Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through the Lord of hosts, their God.’

⁶^(DV)“On that day I will make the clans of Judah ^(DW)like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And ^(DX)they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while ^(DY)Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.

⁷“And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah. ⁸^(DZ)On that day ^(EA)the Lord will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that ^(EB)the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, ^(EC)like the angel of the Lord, going before them. ⁹^(ED)And on that day ^(EE)I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Him Whom They Have Pierced

¹⁰“And ^(EF)I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and ^(EG)pleas for mercy, so that, ^(EH)when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, ^(EI)they shall mourn for him, ^(EJ)as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. ¹¹^(EK)On that day ^(EL)the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great ^(EM)as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. ¹²The land shall mourn, ^(EN)each family^[e] by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of ^(EO)Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; ¹³the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of ^(EP)the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; ¹⁴and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves.

Footnotes

Zechariah 9:1 Or For the eye of mankind, especially of all the tribes of Israel, is toward the Lord
Zechariah 9:6 Or a foreign people; Hebrew a bastard
Zechariah 9:10 That is, the Euphrates
Zechariah 10:3 Hebrew the male goats
Zechariah 12:12 Or clan; throughout verses 12–14

Luke 23:26-56

English Standard Version

The Crucifixion

²⁶^(A)And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus. ²⁷And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were ^(B)mourning and lamenting for him. ²⁸But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. ²⁹For behold, ^(C)the days are coming when they will say, ^(D)‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ ³⁰^(E)Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ ³¹For ^(F)if they do these things when ^(G)the wood is green, what will happen ^(H)when it is dry?”

³²^(I)Two others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him. ³³^(J)And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, ^(K)one on his right and one on his left. ³⁴And Jesus said, “Father, ^(L)forgive them, ^(M)for they know not what they do.”^[a] And they cast lots ^(N)to divide his garments. ³⁵And ^(O)the people stood by, watching, ^(P)but ^(Q)the rulers ^(R)scoffed at him, saying, ^(S)“He saved others; ^(T)let him save himself, ^(U)if he is ^(V)the Christ of God, ^(W)his Chosen One!” ³⁶The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and ^(X)offering him sour wine ³⁷and saying, ^(Y)“If you are ^(Z)the King of the Jews, save yourself!” ³⁸^(AA)There was also an inscription over him,^[b] “This is ^(AB)the King of the Jews.”

³⁹^(AC)One of the criminals who were hanged ^(AD)railed at him,^[c] saying, “Are you not ^(AE)the Christ? Save yourself and us!” ⁴⁰But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? ⁴¹And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.” ⁴²And he said, “Jesus, remember me ^(AF)when you come into your kingdom.” ⁴³And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in ^(AG)paradise.”

The Death of Jesus

⁴⁴^(AH)It was now about the sixth hour,^[d] and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour,^[e] ⁴⁵while the sun's light failed. And ^(AI)the curtain of the temple was torn in two. ⁴⁶Then Jesus, ^(AJ)calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, ^(AK)into your hands I ^(AL)commit my spirit!” And having said this ^(AM)he breathed his last. ⁴⁷Now ^(AN)when the centurion saw what had taken place, ^(AO)he praised God, saying, “Certainly this man was innocent!” ⁴⁸And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home ^(AP)beating their breasts. ⁴⁹And all ^(AQ)his acquaintances and ^(AR)the women who had followed him from Galilee ^(AS)stood at a distance watching these things.

Jesus Is Buried

⁵⁰^(AT)Now there was a man named Joseph, from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man, ⁵¹who had not consented to their decision and action; and he ^(AU)was looking for the kingdom of God. ⁵²This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. ⁵³Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud and ^(AV)laid him in a tomb cut in stone, ^(AW)where no one had ever yet been laid. ⁵⁴It was the day of ^(AX)Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning.^[f] ⁵⁵^(AY)The women ^(AZ)who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid. ⁵⁶Then they returned and ^(BA)prepared spices and ointments.