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Zechariah 9:12

Return to a stronghold, || You prisoners of the hope, || Even today a second announcer I restore to you.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;

In Context

11Also You—by the blood of Your covenant, || I have sent Your prisoners out of the pit, || There is no water in it.

13For I have trodden for Myself with Judah, || I have filled a bow [with] Ephraim, || And I have stirred up your sons, O Zion, || Against your sons, O Javan, || And I have set you as the sword of a hero.”

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Cross References

Job 42:10And YHWH has turned [to] the captivity of Job in his praying for his friends, and YHWH adds [to] all that Job has—to double.

Isaiah 40:2Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, || That her warfare has been completed, || That her punishment has been accepted, || That she has received from the hand of YHWH || Double for all her sins.

Isaiah 52:2Shake yourself from dust, arise, sit, O Jerusalem, || Bands of your neck have loosed themselves, || O captive daughter of Zion.

Jeremiah 31:6For there is a day, || Watchmen have cried on Mount Ephraim, || Rise, and we go up to Zion, to our God YHWH”;

Jeremiah 50:4In those days, and at that time,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “Sons of Israel come in, || They and sons of Judah together, || Going on and weeping they go, || And they seek their God YHWH.

Jeremiah 51:10YHWH has brought forth our righteousnesses, || Come, and we recount in Zion the work of our God YHWH.

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 9:10-12

Predictions Relating to Messiah. ( b. c. 510.) 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is 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 shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth. 11 As for… Read the whole commentary →

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