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9 Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem (city of peace)! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious (righteous and endowed with salvation), humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey 10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim (the northern kingdom of Israel) and the horse from Jerusalem (city of peace), and the bow of war will be broken. Then He will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates \the River/ to the ends of the earth. 11 As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit. 12 Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double. 13 For I will bend Judah (praised) as My bow and fit it with Ephraim (doubly fruitful). I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against the sons of Greece \the sons of Javan/. I will make you like the sword of a mighty man. 14 Then the LORD {YHWH} will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord GOD {Adonai YHWH} will sound the ram’s horn and advance in the whirlwinds of the south. 15 The LORD {YHWH} of Hosts will shield them. They will destroy and conquer with slingstones; they will drink and roar as with wine. And they will be filled like sprinkling bowls, drenched like the corners of the altar. 16 On that day the LORD their God {YHWH Elohehem} will save them as the flock of His people; for like jewels in a crown they will sparkle over His land. 17 How lovely they will be, and how beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women. Zechariah 9:9-17, Berean Annotated Bible. Public domain.
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