9  ^yRejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!

Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!

^zBehold, ^ayour king is coming to you;

righteous and having salvation is he,

^bhumble and mounted on a donkey,

on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

10  ^cI will cut off the chariot from Ephraim

and ^dthe war horse from Jerusalem;

and the battle bow shall be cut off,

and ^ehe shall speak peace to the nations;

^fhis rule shall be from sea to sea,

and from ^gthe River¹ to the ends of the earth.

11  As for you also, because of ^hthe blood of my covenant with you,

ⁱI will set your prisoners free from ^jthe waterless pit.

12  Return to your stronghold, O ^kprisoners of hope;

today I declare that ^lI will restore to you double.

13  For ^mI have bent Judah as my bow;

I have made Ephraim its arrow.

I will stir up your sons, O Zion,

against your sons, ⁿO Greece,

and wield you like a warrior’s sword.

14  Then the Lord will appear over them,

and ^ohis arrow will go forth like lightning;

^pthe Lord God will sound the trumpet

and will march forth in ^qthe whirlwinds ^rof the south.

15  The Lord of hosts ^swill protect them,

and ^tthey shall devour, ^uand tread down the sling stones,

and ^vthey shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine,

and be full like a bowl,

drenched ^wlike the corners of the altar.

16  On that day the Lord their God will save them,

as ^xthe flock of his people;

for ^ylike the jewels of a crown

they shall shine on his land.

17  ^zFor how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty!

^aGrain shall make the young men flourish,

and new wine the young women.

1  Ask rain ^bfrom the Lord

in the season of ^cthe spring rain,

from the Lord ^dwho makes the storm clouds,

and ^ehe will give them showers of rain,

to everyone the vegetation in the field.

2  For ^fthe household gods ^gutter nonsense,

and the diviners see lies;

^hthey tell false dreams

and give empty consolation.

Therefore ⁱthe people wander like sheep;

they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.

3  ^j“My anger is hot against the shepherds,

and ^kI will punish the leaders;¹

for ^lthe Lord of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah,

and will make them like his majestic steed in battle.

4  From him shall come ^mthe cornerstone,

from him ⁿthe tent peg,

from him the battle bow,

from him every ruler—^oall of them together.

5  They shall be like mighty men in battle,

^ptrampling the foe in the mud of the streets;

they shall fight because the Lord is with them,

and they shall put to shame ^qthe riders on horses.

6  ^r“I will strengthen the house of Judah,

and ^sI will save the house of Joseph.

^tI will bring them back ^ubecause I have compassion on them,

and they shall be as though I had not rejected them,

for ^vI am the Lord their God and I will answer them.

7  Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior,

and ^wtheir hearts shall be glad as with wine.

Their children shall see it and be glad;

their hearts shall rejoice in the Lord.

8  ^x“I will whistle for them and ^ygather them in,

for I have redeemed them,

and ^zthey shall be as many as they were before.

9  ^aThough I scattered them among the nations,

yet in far countries ^bthey shall remember me,

and with their children they shall live and return.

10  ^cI will bring them home from the land of Egypt,

and gather them from Assyria,

and ^dI will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon,

^etill there is no room for them.

11  ^fHe shall pass through the sea of troubles

and strike down the waves of the sea,

^gand all the depths of the Nile shall be dried up.

The pride of Assyria shall be laid low,

and ^hthe scepter of Egypt shall depart.

12  ⁱI will make them strong in the Lord,

and ^jthey shall walk in his name,”

declares the Lord.