Bible Gateway passage: Zechariah 9 - New King James Version (2024)

Israel Defended Against Enemies

9The ^[a]burden of the word of the Lord
Against the land of Hadrach,
And ^(A)Damascus its resting place
(For ^(B)the eyes of men
And all the tribes of Israel
Are on the Lord);
²Also against ^(C)Hamath, which borders on it,
And against ^(D)Tyre and ^(E)Sidon, though they are very ^(F)wise.

³For Tyre built herself a tower,
Heaped up silver like the dust,
And gold like the mire of the streets.
⁴Behold, ^(G)the Lord will cast her out;
He will destroy ^(H)her power in the sea,
And she will be devoured by fire.

⁵Ashkelon shall see it and fear;
Gaza also shall be very sorrowful;
And ^(I)Ekron, for He dried up her expectation.
The king shall perish from Gaza,
And Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

⁶“A^[b] mixed race shall settle ^(J)in Ashdod,
And I will cut off the pride of the ^(K)Philistines.
⁷I will take away the blood from his mouth,
And the abominations from between his teeth.
But he who remains, even he shall be for our God,
And shall be like a leader in Judah,
And Ekron like a Jebusite.
^8(L)I will camp around My house
Because of the army,
Because of him who passes by and him who returns.
No more shall an oppressor pass through them,
For now I have seen with My eyes.

The Coming King^(M)

⁹“Rejoice ^(N)greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, ^(O)your King is coming to you;
He is just and having salvation,
Lowly and riding on a donkey,
A colt, the foal of a donkey.
¹⁰I ^(P)will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
And the horse from Jerusalem;
The ^(Q)battle bow shall be cut off.
He shall speak peace to the nations;
His dominion shall be ^(R)‘from sea to sea,
And from the River to the ends of the earth.’

God Will Save His People

¹¹“As for you also,
Because of the blood of your covenant,
I will set your ^(S)prisoners free from the waterless pit.
¹²Return to the stronghold,
^(T)You prisoners of hope.
Even today I declare
That I will restore ^(U)double to you.
¹³For I have bent Judah, My bow,
Fitted the bow with Ephraim,
And raised up your sons, O Zion,
Against your sons, O Greece,
And made you like the sword of a mighty man.”

¹⁴Then the Lord will be seen over them,
And ^(V)His arrow will go forth like lightning.
The Lord God will blow the trumpet,
And go ^(W)with whirlwinds from the south.
¹⁵The Lord of hosts will ^(X)defend them;
They shall devour and subdue with slingstones.
They shall drink and roar as if with wine;
They shall be filled with blood like ^[c]basins,
Like the corners of the altar.
¹⁶The Lord their God will ^(Y)save them in that day,
As the flock of His people.
For ^(Z)they shall be like the ^[d]jewels of a crown,
^(AA)Lifted like a banner over His land—
¹⁷For ^(AB)how great is ^[e]its goodness
And how great its ^(AC)beauty!
^(AD)Grain shall make the young men thrive,
And new wine the young women.