As part of the lead up to Advent readings, we're reading the final prophets before God speaking to Israel appears to have gone dark for several hundred years. We are now in the next to the last prophet before Jesus' birth, Zechariah. The Book of Zechariah was written between 520 and 480 BC.
Check out the video below. Today's readings are part of the video section from mark 5:52 to about 6:13.
The Coming of Zion’s King
9:9
Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion!
Shout in triumph, Daughter Jerusalem!
Look, your King is coming to you;
he is righteous and victorious,[Or and has salvation]
humble and riding on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
10
I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
and the horse from Jerusalem.
The bow of war will be removed,
and he will proclaim peace to the nations.
His dominion will extend from sea to sea,
from the Euphrates River
to the ends of the earth.
11
As for you,
because of the blood of your covenant,
I will release your prisoners
from the waterless cistern.
12
Return to a stronghold,
you prisoners who have hope;
today I declare that I will restore double to you.
13
For I will bend Judah as my bow;
I will fill that bow with Ephraim.
I will rouse your sons, Zion,
against your sons, Greece.[Lit Javan]
I will make you like a warrior’s sword.
14
Then the Lord will appear over them,
and his arrow will fly like lightning.
The Lord God will sound the ram’s horn
and advance with the southern storms.
15
The Lord of Armies will defend them.
They will consume and conquer with slingstones;
they will drink and be rowdy as if with wine.
They will be as full as the sprinkling basin,
like those at the corners of the altar.
16
The Lord their God will save them on that day
as the flock of his people;
for they are like jewels in a crown,
sparkling over his land.
17
How lovely and beautiful!
Grain will make the young men flourish,
and new wine, the young women.
9:9
Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion!
Shout in triumph, Daughter Jerusalem!
Look, your King is coming to you;
he is righteous and victorious,[Or and has salvation]
humble and riding on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
10
I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
and the horse from Jerusalem.
The bow of war will be removed,
and he will proclaim peace to the nations.
His dominion will extend from sea to sea,
from the Euphrates River
to the ends of the earth.
11
As for you,
because of the blood of your covenant,
I will release your prisoners
from the waterless cistern.
12
Return to a stronghold,
you prisoners who have hope;
today I declare that I will restore double to you.
13
For I will bend Judah as my bow;
I will fill that bow with Ephraim.
I will rouse your sons, Zion,
against your sons, Greece.[Lit Javan]
I will make you like a warrior’s sword.
14
Then the Lord will appear over them,
and his arrow will fly like lightning.
The Lord God will sound the ram’s horn
and advance with the southern storms.
15
The Lord of Armies will defend them.
They will consume and conquer with slingstones;
they will drink and be rowdy as if with wine.
They will be as full as the sprinkling basin,
like those at the corners of the altar.
16
The Lord their God will save them on that day
as the flock of his people;
for they are like jewels in a crown,
sparkling over his land.
17
How lovely and beautiful!
Grain will make the young men flourish,
and new wine, the young women.
CSB
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