Zechariah
10
- Ask the LORD for rain in the springtime;
it is the LORD who makes the storm clouds. He gives showers of rain to men,
and plants of the field to everyone.
- The idols speak deceit, diviners see visions
that lie; they tell dreams that are false, they give comfort in vain. Therefore
the people wander like sheep oppressed for lack of a shepherd.
- "My anger burns against the shepherds,
and I will punish the leaders; for the LORD Almighty will care for his flock,
the house of Judah, and make them like a proud horse in battle.
- From Judah will come the cornerstone, from
him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler.
- Together they will be like mighty men trampling
the muddy streets in battle. Because the LORD is with them, they will fight
and overthrow the horsemen.
- "I will strengthen the house of Judah
and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion
on them. They will be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the LORD
their God and I will answer them.
- The Ephraimites will become like mighty
men, and their hearts will be glad as with wine. Their children will see it
and be joyful; their hearts will rejoice in the LORD.
- I will signal for them and gather them in.
Surely I will redeem them; they will be as numerous as before.
- Though I scatter them among the peoples,
yet in distant lands they will remember me. They and their children will survive,
and they will return.
- I will bring them back from Egypt and gather
them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon, and there will
not be room enough for them.
- They will pass through the sea of trouble;
the surging sea will be subdued and all the depths of the Nile will dry up.
Assyria's pride will be brought down and Egypt's scepter will pass away.
- I will strengthen them in the LORD and in
his name they will walk," declares the LORD.
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