The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Zechariah 9:6 (NIV)

6 A mongrel people will occupy Ashdod,
and I will put an end to the pride of the Philistines.

 

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Zechariah 9:7 (NIV)

7 I will take the blood from their mouths,
the forbidden food from between their teeth.
Those who are left will belong to our God
and become a clan in Judah,
and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.

 

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Zechariah 9:8 (NIV)

8 But I will encamp at my temple
to guard it against marauding forces.
Never again will an oppressor overrun my people,
for now I am keeping watch.

 

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Zechariah 9:9 (NIV)

9 Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion!
Shout, Daughter Jerusalem!
See, your king comes to you,
righteous and victorious,
lowly and riding on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

 

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Zechariah 9:10 (NIV)

10 I will take away the chariots from Ephraim
and the war-horses from Jerusalem,
and the battle-bow will be broken.
He will proclaim peace to the nations.
His rule will extend from sea to sea
and from the River to the ends of the earth.

 

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Zechariah 9:11(NIV)

11 As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you,
I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit.

 

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Zechariah 9:12 (NIV)

12 Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope;
even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you.

 

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Zechariah 9:13 (NIV)

13 I will bend Judah as I bend my bow
and fill it with Ephraim.
I will rouse your sons, Zion,
against your sons, Greece,
and make you like a warrior’s sword.

 

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Zechariah 9:14 (NIV)

14 Then the Lord will appear over them;
his arrow will flash like lightning.
The Sovereign Lord will sound the trumpet;
he will march in the storms of the south,

 

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Zechariah 9:15 (NIV)

15 and the Lord Almighty will shield them.
They will destroy
and overcome with slingstones.
They will drink and roar as with wine;
they will be full like a bowl
used for sprinkling the corners of the altar.

 

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Zechariah 9:16 (NIV)

16 The Lord their God will save his people on that day
as a shepherd saves his flock.
They will sparkle in his land
like jewels in a crown.

 

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Zechariah 9:17 (NIV)

17 How attractive and beautiful they will be!
Grain will make the young men thrive,
and new wine the young women.

 

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Zechariah 10:1 (NIV)

Ask the Lord for rain in the springtime;
it is the Lord who sends the thunderstorms.
He gives showers of rain to all people,
and plants of the field to everyone.

 

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Zechariah 10:1 (NIV)

2 The idols speak deceitfully,
diviners see visions that lie;
they tell dreams that are false,
they give comfort in vain.
Therefore the people wander like sheep
oppressed for lack of a shepherd.

 

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Zechariah 10:3 (NIV)

3 “My anger burns against your shepherds,
and I will punish these leaders.
For the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has arrived
to look after Judah, his flock.
He will make them strong and glorious,
like a proud warhorse in battle.

 

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Zechariah 10:4 (NIV)

4 From Judah will come the cornerstone,
the tent peg,
the bow for battle,
and all the rulers.

 

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Zechariah 10:5 (NIV)

5 They will be like mighty warriors in battle,
trampling their enemies in the mud under their feet.
Since the Lord is with them as they fight,
they will overthrow even the enemy’s horsemen.

 

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Zechariah 10:6 (NIV)

6 “I will strengthen Judah and save Israel;
I will restore them because of my compassion.
It will be as though I had never rejected them,
for I am the Lord their God, who will hear their cries.

 

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Zechariah 10:8 (NIV)

8 When I whistle to them, they will come running,
for I have redeemed them.
From the few who are left,
they will grow as numerous as they were before.

 

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Zechariah 10:9 (NIV)

9 Though I scatter them among the peoples,
yet in distant lands they will remember me.
They and their children will survive,
and they will return.