OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 13

Zechariah 9:13

For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me.

I have loaded the bow with Ephraim.

I will stir up your sons, Zion,

against your sons, Greece,

and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Zechariah 9:13 in context

Zechariah 9:10–16

I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim

and the horse from Jerusalem.

The battle bow will be cut off;

and he will speak peace to the nations.

His dominion will be from sea to sea,

and from the River to the ends of the earth.

As for you also,

because of the blood of your covenant,

I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope!

Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

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For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me.

I have loaded the bow with Ephraim.

I will stir up your sons, Zion,

against your sons, Greece,

and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.

The LORD will be seen over them.

His arrow will flash like lightning.

The Lord GOD will blow the trumpet,

and will go with whirlwinds of the south.

The LORD of Armies will defend them.

They will destroy and overcome with sling stones.

They will drink, and roar as through wine.

They will be filled like bowls,

like the corners of the altar.

The LORD their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people;

for they are like the jewels of a crown,

lifted on high over his land.

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