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Book of Zechariah, Chapter 9

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Chapter 9 of Zechariah—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ A pronouncement:1
    ¶ “The word of Jehovah[a] is against the land of Haʹdrach, and Damascus2 is where it rests; for Jehovah[b] has an eye on earthling man3 and on all the tribes of Israel.
  2. And Haʹmath4 itself will also border upon her; Tyre5 and Siʹdon,6 for she is very wise.7
  3. And Tyre proceeded to build a rampart for herself, and to pile up silver like dust and gold[c] like the mire of [the] streets.8
  4. Look! Jehovah[d] himself will dispossess her, and into the sea he will certainly strike down her military force;9 and in the fire she herself will be devoured.10
  5. Ashʹke·lon will see and get afraid; and as for Gaʹza, she will also feel very severe pains; Ekʹron11 also, because her looked-for hope12 will have to experience shame. And a king will certainly perish from Gaʹza, and Ashʹke·lon herself will not be inhabited.13
  6. And an illegitimate14 son will actually seat himself in Ashʹdod,15 and I shall certainly cut off the pride of the Phi·lisʹtine.16
  7. And I will remove his bloodstained things from his mouth and his disgusting things from between his teeth,17 and he himself also will certainly be left remaining for our God;[e] and he must become like a sheik[f]18 in Judah,19 and Ekʹron like the Jebʹu·site.20
  8. And I will encamp as an outpost for my house,21 so that there will be no one passing through and no one returning; and there will no more pass through them a taskmaster,22 for now I have seen [it] with my eyes.23
  9. ¶ “Be very joyful, O daughter of Zion.24 Shout in triumph,25 O daughter of Jerusalem. Look! Your king26 himself comes to you.27 He is righteous, yes, saved;[g]28 humble,[h]29 and riding upon an ass, even upon a full-grown animal the son of a she-ass.[i]30
  10. And I shall certainly cut off[j] [the] war chariot from Eʹphra·im and [the] horse from Jerusalem.31 And the battle bow32 must be cut off. And he will actually speak peace to the nations;33 and his rulership will be from sea to sea and from the River[k] to the ends[l] of [the] earth.34
  11. ¶ “Also, you, [O woman,][m] by the blood of your[n] covenant35 I will send your prisoners36 out of the pit in which there is no water.
  12. ¶ “Return to the stronghold,[o]37 YOU prisoners of the hope.38
    ¶ “Also, today [I am] telling [you], ‘I shall repay to you, [O woman,][p] a double portion.[q]39
  13. For I will tread as my [bow][r] Judah. The bow I will fill with Eʹphra·im, and I will awaken[s] your sons,40 O Zion, against your sons, O Greece,[t]41 and I will make you[u] as the sword of a mighty man.’[v]42
  14. And over them Jehovah himself will be seen,43 and his arrow will certainly go forth just like lightning.44 And on the horn[w] the Sovereign Lord Jehovah himself will blow,45 and he will certainly go with the windstorms of the south.[x]46
  15. Jehovah of armies himself will defend them, and they will actually devour47 and subdue the slingstones. And they will certainly drink48—be boisterous—as if there were wine; and they will actually become filled like the bowl, like the corners of [the] altar.49
  16. ¶ “And Jehovah their God[y] will certainly save them50 in that day like the flock of his people;51 for they will be as the stones of a diadem glittering over his[z] soil.52
  17. For O how [great] his goodness is,53 and how [great] his handsomeness is!54 Grain is what will make the young men thrive, and new wine the virgins.”55

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ See App 1C §4.
  2. ^ See App 1C §4.
  3. ^ “And gold.” Heb., wecha·rutsʹ.
  4. ^ One of 134 scribal changes from YHWH to ʼAdho·naiʹ. See App 1B and 1C §4.
  5. ^ “For our God.” Heb., lEʼ·lo·hehʹnu; Gr., The·oiʹ; Lat., Deʹo.
  6. ^ See Ge 36:15 ftn.
  7. ^ Or, “yes, experiencing salvation”; or, “yes, having been saved”; or, “and, being victorious.” Heb., wenoh·shaʽʹ, passive, as in De 33:29 and Ps 33:16; LXX, “and saving,” or, “and bringing salvation”; Lat., et sal·vaʹtor, “and savior.”
  8. ^ Or, “afflicted.” Heb., ʽa·niʹ; Lat., pauʹper.
  9. ^ Lit., “she-asses.”
  10. ^ According to MTVg; LXXSy, “he will utterly destroy.”
  11. ^ That is, the Euphrates.
  12. ^ See Jer 16:19 ftn.
  13. ^ “You, [O woman].” Lit., “you.” Heb., ʼat, fem. sing.; that is, Zion, or Jerusalem.
  14. ^ “Your,” fem. sing., referring to the woman, that is, Zion, or Jerusalem.
  15. ^ Or, “to the inaccessible (unapproachable) place.” Heb., levits·tsa·rohnʹ; the only occurrence in M.
  16. ^ “To you, [O woman].” Lit., “to you.” Heb., lakh, fem. sing. Compare vs 11 ftn, “Woman.”
  17. ^ “A double portion.” Heb., mish·nehʹ. Compare Isa 61:7.
  18. ^ “As my [bow].” Lit., “for me.” Heb., li; but it is the bow that is trodden.
  19. ^ Or, “rouse up.”
  20. ^ “Greece,” Vg; LXX, “(children) of the Greeks”; MSy, “Javan.” See Ge 10:2; Da 8:21 ftn.
  21. ^ “You,” fem. sing., referring to “Zion.”
  22. ^ “A mighty man.” Heb., gib·bohrʹ.
  23. ^ Or, “on the shofar.” Heb., bash·shoh·pharʹ.
  24. ^ “South.” Heb., teh·manʹ.
  25. ^ “Their God.” Heb., ʼElo·heh·hemʹ.
  26. ^ Or, “their,” referring to the “people.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Is 13:1
  2. ^ Je 49:27; Am 1:3
  3. ^ 2Ch 16:9; Heb 4:13; 1Pe 3:12
  4. ^ Je 49:23; Am 6:14
  5. ^ Is 23:1; Jl 3:4; Am 1:9
  6. ^ Eze 28:21
  7. ^ Eze 28:3
  8. ^ Eze 27:33
  9. ^ Eze 26:17; 27:26
  10. ^ Eze 28:18
  11. ^ Jos 13:3; 1Sa 5:10
  12. ^ Is 20:5
  13. ^ Zp 2:4
  14. ^ De 23:2; Heb 12:8
  15. ^ Ec 2:18; Am 1:8
  16. ^ Is 2:17; Da 4:37
  17. ^ Ps 58:6; Am 3:12
  18. ^ Ge 36:40
  19. ^ Is 60:14
  20. ^ 2Sa 5:6; 1Ki 9:20; 1Ch 11:4; 21:28
  21. ^ Ps 125:2
  22. ^ Is 54:14
  23. ^ Ex 3:7; 2Sa 16:12
  24. ^ Is 12:6
  25. ^ Is 44:23; Zp 3:14
  26. ^ Ps 2:6; Is 32:1; Je 23:5; Lu 19:38; Jn 1:49
  27. ^ Jn 12:15
  28. ^ Jn 16:33
  29. ^ Mt 11:29; 21:5
  30. ^ 1Ki 1:33; Mt 21:7
  31. ^ Pr 21:31
  32. ^ Zc 10:4
  33. ^ Is 9:7; Eph 2:14
  34. ^ Ex 23:31; Ps 2:8; 72:8
  35. ^ Je 31:31; Mt 26:28; Heb 12:24; 13:20; 1Pe 1:19
  36. ^ Is 49:9
  37. ^ 2Sa 5:7; Je 31:6
  38. ^ Is 61:1; Je 31:17
  39. ^ Jb 42:10; Is 61:7
  40. ^ Mt 13:38
  41. ^ Da 8:21; Jl 3:6
  42. ^ Ps 149:6; Is 41:15
  43. ^ Ex 14:24
  44. ^ Ps 18:14
  45. ^ Jos 6:5; Is 18:3
  46. ^ Is 21:1; 66:15
  47. ^ Mc 5:9; Zc 10:5; 12:6
  48. ^ Is 55:1
  49. ^ Ex 27:2; Le 4:7
  50. ^ Eze 34:22; 37:23
  51. ^ Ps 100:3; Mc 5:4; Zc 11:7; Lu 12:32
  52. ^ Is 62:3; Zp 3:20
  53. ^ Ps 25:8; 31:19; Is 63:7
  54. ^ Ps 50:2; 90:17
  55. ^ Is 62:8; Jl 3:18; Am 9:13

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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