# Zechariah 9 [[Zechariah 8|←]] • [[Zechariah 10|→]] --- ### 1 The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, toward the Lord. ### 2 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise. ### 3 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. ### 4 Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire. ### 5 Ashkelon shall see and fear; Gaza also and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited. ### 6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. ### 7 And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite. ### 8 And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor by, shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes. ### 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. ### 10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. ### 11 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein no water. ### 12 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare I will render double unto thee; ### 13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. ### 14 And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. ### 15 The Lord of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, as the corners of the altar. ### 16 And the Lord their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land. ### 17 For how great his goodness, and how great his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.