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Revised
Standard Version of the Holy Bible
Zechariah
Chapter 10 (Revised Standard Version)
Zechariah 10
1 Ask rain from the LORD in the season of the spring rain, from the
LORD who makes the storm clouds, who gives men showers of rain, to every
one the vegetation in the field.
2 For the teraphim utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; the
dreamers tell false dreams, and give empty consolation. Therefore the
people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for want of a shepherd.
3 "My anger is hot against the shepherds, and I will punish the
leaders; for the LORD of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah,
and will make them like his proud steed in battle.
4 Out of them shall come the cornerstone, out of them the tent peg,
out of them the battle bow, out of them every ruler.
5 Together they shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe
in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because the LORD is with them,
and they shall confound the riders on horses.
6 "I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the
house of Joseph. I will bring them back because I have compassion on them,
and they shall be as though I had not rejected them; for I am the LORD
their God and I will answer them.
7 Then E'phraim shall become like a mighty warrior, and their hearts
shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and rejoice, their
hearts shall exult in the LORD.
8 "I will signal for them and gather them in, for I have
redeemed them, and they shall be as many as of old.
9 Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries
they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and
return.
10 I will bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them
from Assyria; and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon,
till there is no room for them.
11 They shall pass through the sea of Egypt, and the waves of the sea
shall be smitten, and all the depths of the Nile dried up. The pride of
Assyria shall be laid low, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart.
12 I will make them strong in the LORD and they shall glory in his
name," says the LORD.
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