Zechariah 10

God Will Bless Judah and Ephraim

1 Ask for arain from the Lord at the time of the spring rain--

The Lord who bmakes the
Or thunderbolts
storm winds;
And He will give them dshowers of rain, vegetation in the field to each person.
2 For the
Heb teraphim
,
fhousehold idols speak deception,
And the gdiviners see
Lit a lie
an illusion
And tell ideceitful dreams;
They comfort in vain.
Therefore the people
Lit journey
wander like ksheep,
They are wretched because there is no shepherd.
3 “My langer is kindled against the shepherds,
And I will punish the
I.e., leaders
male goats;
For the Lord of armies has nvisited His flock, the house of Judah,
And will make them like His majestic horse in battle.
4 “From
Lit him
them will come the pcornerstone,
From
Lit him
them the tent peg,
From
Lit him
them the bow of sbattle,
From
Lit him
them every tyrant, all of them together.
5 “And they will be like warriors,
uTrampling down the enemy in the mud of the streets in battle;
And they will fight, because the Lord will be with them;
And the vriders on horses will be put to shame.
6 “And I will wstrengthen the house of Judah,
And I will xsave the house of Joseph,
And I will
Another reading is have them dwell
,
zbring them back,
Because I have had aacompassion on them;
And they will be as though I had abnot rejected them,
For I am the Lord their God and I will acanswer them.
7 “Ephraim will be like a warrior,
And their heart will be joyful as if from wine;
Indeed, their adchildren will see it and be joyful,
Or Let their heart rejoice
Their heart will rejoice in the Lord.
8 “I will afwhistle for them and gather them together,
For I have redeemed them;
And they will be as agnumerous as they
Lit were numerous
,
aiwere before.
9 “When I
Lit sow
scatter them among the peoples,
They will akremember Me in distant countries,
And they with their children will live and come back.
10 “I will albring them back from the land of Egypt
And gather them from Assyria;
And I will bring them into the land of amGilead and Lebanon
Lit And
Until aono room can be found for them.
11 “And they will pass through the apsea of distress
And He will strike the waves in the sea,
So that all the depths of the aqNile will dry up;
And the pride of arAssyria will be brought down,
And the scepter of asEgypt will depart.
12 “And I will atstrengthen them in the Lord,
And in His name authey will walk,” declares the Lord.
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