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Zacarías 9,1-17
Chapter IX.
1 God defendeth his Church. 9 Zion is exhorted to reioyce for the comming of Christ, and his peaceable Kingdome. 12 Gods promises of Victory and Defence.
1 The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall bee the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel shalbe toward the Lord.
2 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus and Zidon, though it be very [ Eze_28:3, etc.] wise.
3 And Tyrus did builde her selfe a strong hold, and heaped vp siluer as the dust, and fine golde as the myre of the streets.
4 Behold, the Lord wil cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea,
[Prisoners of hope.]
and she shalbe deuoured with fire.
5 Ashkelon shall see it, and feare, Gaza also shall see it and be very sorrowfull, and Ekron: for her expectation shalbe ashamed, and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shal not be inhabited.
6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
7 And I wil take away his [ Hebrew: bloods.] blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from betweene his teeth: but he that remaineth, euen hee shalbe for our God, and he shall be as a gouernour in Iudah, and Ekron as a Iebusite.
8 And I will encampe about mine house because of the armie, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressour shall passe through them any more: for now haue I seene with mine eyes.
9 [ Isa_62:11 ; Mat_21:5 ; Joh_12:15 .] Reioyce greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout O daughter of Ierusalem: beholde, thy King commeth vnto thee: hee is iust, and [ Or, sauing himselfe.] hauing saluation, lowly, and riding vpon an asse, and vpon a colt, the foale of an asse.
10 And I wil cut off the charet from Ephraim, and the horse from Ierusalem: and the battell bow shalbe cut off, and he shall speake peace vnto the heathen, and his dominion shalbe [ Psa_72:8 .] from sea euen to sea, and from the Riuer, euen to the ends of the earth.
11 As for thee also, [ Or, whose Couenant is by blood.] by the blood of thy Couenant, I haue sent foorth thy [ Isa_61:1 .] prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water.
12 Turne ye to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope, euen to day doe I declare that I will render double vnto thee:
13 When I haue bent Iudah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised vp thy sonnes O Zion, against thy sonnes, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mightie man.
14 And the Lord shalbe seene ouer them, and his arrow shall goe forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall goe with whirlewinds of the South.
15 The Lord of hostes shall defend them, and they shall deuoure, and [ Or, subdue the stones of the sling.] subdue with sling stones, and they shal drinke and make a noise, as through wine, and they [ Or, shall fill both the bowles, etc.] shall bee filled like bowles, and as the corners of the Altar.
[Corner, naile, etc.]
16 And the Lord their God shall saue them in that day as the flock of his people, for they shall be as the stones of a crowne lifted vp as an ensigne vpon his land.
17 For how great is his goodnesse, and how great is his beautie? corne shal make the yong men [ Or, grow, or speake.] cheerefull, and new wine the maides.