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Zechariah 9 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:1 - A word of the Lord: The Lord has come to the land of Hadrach, and Damascus is his resting-place: for the towns of Aram are the Lord's,
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:2 - As well as Hamath, which is by its limit, and Tyre and Zidon, because they are very wise.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3 - And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the streets.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:4 - See, the Lord will take away her heritage, overturning her power in the sea; and she will be burned up with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:5 - Ashkelon will see it with fear, and Gaza, bent with pain; and Ekron, for her hope will be shamed: and the king will be cut off from Gaza, and Ashkelon will be unpeopled.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:6 - And a mixed people will be living in Ashdod, and I will have the pride of the Philistines cut off.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:7 - And I will take away his blood from his mouth, and his disgusting things from between his teeth; and some of his people will be kept for our God: and he will be as a family in Judah, and Ekron as one living in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:8 - And I will put my forces in position round my house, so that there may be no coming and going: and no cruel master will again go through them: for now I have seen his trouble.
(Mat 21:5; Jhn 12:14, 15 )
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:9 - Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:10 - And he will have the war-carriage cut off from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be cut off: and he will say words of peace to the nations: and his rule will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

Deliverance of Judah and Ephraim

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:11 - And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:12 - And they will come back to you, O daughter of Zion, as prisoners of hope: today I say to you that I will give you back twice as much;
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:13 - For I have made Judah a bow bent for my use, I have made Ephraim the arrows of the bow; I will make your sons, O Zion, take up arms against your sons, O Greece, and will make you like the sword of a man of war.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:14 - And the Lord will be seen over them, and his arrow will go out like the thunder-flame: and the Lord God, sounding the war-horn, will go in the storm-winds of the South.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:15 - The Lord of armies will be a cover for them; and they will overcome, crushing under foot the armed men; they will take their blood for drink like wine: they will be full like the sides of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:16 - And the Lord their God will be their saviour in that day, giving them food like the flock of his people: for they will be like the jewels of a crown shining over his land.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:17 - For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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