Zechariah 10
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Chapter overview
The people are told to seek rain from God rather than household idols and false diviners. Failed shepherds face judgment, while Judah becomes strong through divinely supplied leadership. The scattered people are compassionately gathered from distant lands, strengthened, and brought home with their children until there is room no more.
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1They asked of YHWH rain || In a time of spring rain, || YHWH is making lightnings, || And He gives to them rain [in] showers. To each—the herb in the field.
2Because the teraphim spoke iniquity, || And the diviners have seen a falsehood, || And dreams of the vanity they speak, || [With] vanity they give comfort, || Therefore they have journeyed as a flock, || They are afflicted, for there is no shepherd.
3“My anger burned against the shepherds, || And I lay a charge against the male goats, || For YHWH of Hosts has inspected His flock, the house of Judah, || And set them as His splendid horse in battle.
4From him [is] a cornerstone, || From him a nail, from him a battle-bow, || From him goes forth every exactor together.
5And they have been as heroes, || Treading in mire of out-places in battle, || And they have fought, for YHWH [is] with them, || And have put to shame riders of horses.
6And I have made the house of Judah mighty, || And I save the house of Joseph, || And I have caused them to dwell, for I have loved them, || And they have been as [if] I had not cast them off, || For I [am] their God YHWH, || And I answer them.
7And Ephraim has been as a hero, || And their heart has rejoiced as wine, || And their sons see, and they have rejoiced, || Their heart rejoices in YHWH.
8I hiss for them, and I gather them, || For I have redeemed them, || And they have multiplied as they multiplied.
9And I sow them among peoples, || And in far-off places they remember Me, || And they have lived with their sons, || And they have turned back.
10And I have brought them back from the land of Egypt, || And I gather them from Asshur, || And I bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, || And [space] is not found for them there.
11And He has passed over through the sea, || And has pressed and struck billows in the sea, || And all depths of a flood have been dried up, || And the excellence of Asshur has been brought down, || And the rod of Egypt turns aside.
12And I have made them mighty in YHWH, || And in His Name they walk up and down,” || A declaration of YHWH!
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