Zechariah
The Book Added to Zecariah
(The chapters are numbered as part of the chapters of Zecariah)
9* The boding of Jehovah’s word in Hadrac, its resting-place Damascus; for Jehovah’s are the eyes of mankind, and all the tribes of Israel; 2 Hamath too, bordering on it; Tyre and Sidon, very wise as they are. 3 And Tyre built itself siege-works and piled up silver like earth and hard gold like street mud. 4 Here Jehovah will dispossess her and knock her wealth into the sea, and she will be consumed by fire. 5* Ashkelon will see and be afraid; Ghaza, and be utterly unmanned; and ʽEkron, because her cynosure has come to grief and king is lost to Ghaza; and Ashkelon will be uninhabited. 6 And a mongrel rabble will live in Ashdod, and I will abolish the Philistines’ pride; 7 and I will take out its blood from its mouth and its carrion from between its teeth, and it too will be left belonging to our God, and be like a privileged guest in Judah, and ʽEkron like a Jebusite. 8*** And I will camp as garrison for my house against comer and goer, and never again shall a coercer pass through them; for now I have seen with my own eyes.
9 Jubilate most gayly, daughter of Sion; cheer, daughter of Jerusalem; here you shall have your kind come in; just and victorious is he, poor and mounted on a donkey, on a young beast born of donkeys. 10* And he will abolish chariots from Ephraim and ponies from Jerusalem, and war-bows will be abolished, and he will pronounce peace to the nations; and his rule will be from sea to sea and from River to ends of earth.
11 Your prisoners too for your covenant blood I have let go out of the dry cistern. 12** The prisoners of hope shall come back to you, Sion, today too; double dower I will bring back to you. 13 For I have bent Judah for my bow, put Ephraim in for arrow; and I will rouse your sons, Sion, against the sons of Greece, and make you like a champion’s sword. 14 And Jehovah will appear over them, and his arrow will go out like the lightning; and the Lord Jehovah will blow the ram-horn and go with southern tempests. 15*** Jehovah of Armies will shield them, and they will eat up and stamp down slingstones and drink their blood like wine, and be filled like a sacrificer’s bowl, like the corners of an altar, 16* and their God Jehovah will give them the victory. On that day his people’s sheep will be like sparkling diadem-stones over his soil. 17 For how good and what a beauty-giver is he! grain will ripen young men, grape-juice maidens.