Zechariah 10 - New International Version (NIV)

The Lord Will Care for Judah

10 Ask the Lord for rain in the springtime;
it is the Lord who sends the thunderstorms.
He gives showers of rain(A) to all people,
and plants of the field(B) to everyone.
2 The idols(C) speak deceitfully,
diviners(D) see visions that lie;
they tell dreams(E) that are false,
they give comfort in vain.(F)
Therefore the people wander like sheep
oppressed for lack of a shepherd.(G)

3 “My anger burns against the shepherds,
and I will punish the leaders;(H)
for the Lord Almighty will care
for his flock, the people of Judah,
and make them like a proud horse in battle.(I)
4 From Judah will come the cornerstone,(J)
from him the tent peg,(K)
from him the battle bow,(L)
from him every ruler.
5 Together they[a] will be like warriors in battle
trampling their enemy into the mud of the streets.(M)
They will fight because the Lord is with them,
and they will put the enemy horsemen to shame.(N)

6 “I will strengthen(O) Judah
and save the tribes of Joseph.
I will restore them
because I have compassion(P) on them.(Q)
They will be as though
I had not rejected them,
for I am the Lord their God
and I will answer(R) them.
7 The Ephraimites will become like warriors,
and their hearts will be glad as with wine.(S)
Their children will see it and be joyful;
their hearts will rejoice(T) in the Lord.
8 I will signal(U) for them
and gather them in.
Surely I will redeem them;
they will be as numerous(V) as before.
9 Though I scatter them among the peoples,
yet in distant lands they will remember me.(W)
They and their children will survive,
and they will return.
10 I will bring them back from Egypt
and gather them from Assyria.(X)
I will bring them to Gilead(Y) and Lebanon,
and there will not be room(Z) enough for them.
11 They will pass through the sea of trouble;
the surging sea will be subdued
and all the depths of the Nile will dry up.(AA)
Assyria’s pride(AB) will be brought down
and Egypt’s scepter(AC) will pass away.(AD)
12 I will strengthen(AE) them in the Lord
and in his name they will live securely,(AF)”
declares the Lord.

Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 10:5 Or ruler, all of them together. / 5 They

Cross references

  1. Zechariah 10:1 : S Lev 26:4; S 1Ki 8:36; S Ps 104:13; S 135:7
  2. Zechariah 10:1 : S Job 14:9
  3. Zechariah 10:2 : Eze 21:21
  4. Zechariah 10:2 : S Isa 44:25
  5. Zechariah 10:2 : Jer 23:16
  6. Zechariah 10:2 : S Isa 40:19
  7. Zechariah 10:2 : S Nu 27:17; S Jer 23:1; S Hos 3:4; S Mt 9:36
  8. Zechariah 10:3 : Isa 14:9; S Jer 25:34
  9. Zechariah 10:3 : S Eze 34:8-10
  10. Zechariah 10:4 : S Ps 118:22; S Ac 4:11
  11. Zechariah 10:4 : S Isa 22:23
  12. Zechariah 10:4 : S Zec 9:10
  13. Zechariah 10:5 : S 2Sa 22:43; S Mic 7:10
  14. Zechariah 10:5 : S Am 2:15; S Mic 5:8; Hag 2:22; Zec 12:4
  15. Zechariah 10:6 : S Eze 30:24
  16. Zechariah 10:6 : S Ps 102:13; S Isa 14:1
  17. Zechariah 10:6 : S Eze 36:37; 37:19; S Zec 8:7-8
  18. Zechariah 10:6 : Ps 34:17; Isa 58:9; 65:24; Zec 13:9
  19. Zechariah 10:7 : Zec 9:15
  20. Zechariah 10:7 : S 1Sa 2:1; S Isa 60:5; S Joel 2:23
  21. Zechariah 10:8 : Isa 5:26
  22. Zechariah 10:8 : S Jer 33:22; S Eze 36:11
  23. Zechariah 10:9 : S Isa 44:21; S Eze 6:9
  24. Zechariah 10:10 : S Isa 11:11; S Zec 8:8
  25. Zechariah 10:10 : S Jer 50:19
  26. Zechariah 10:10 : S Isa 49:19
  27. Zechariah 10:11 : Isa 19:5-7; S 51:10
  28. Zechariah 10:11 : Zep 2:13
  29. Zechariah 10:11 : Eze 30:13
  30. Zechariah 10:11 : Eze 29:15
  31. Zechariah 10:12 : S Eze 30:24
  32. Zechariah 10:12 : S Mic 4:5

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