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Zechariah 10 :: New International Version (NIV)

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The Lord Will Care for Judah

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:1 - Ask the LORD for rain in the springtime; it is the LORD who sends the thunderstorms. He gives showers of rain to all people, and plants of the field to everyone.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:2 - The idols speak deceitfully, diviners see visions that lie; they tell dreams that are false, they give comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep oppressed for lack of a shepherd.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:3 - “My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the LORD Almighty will care for his flock, the people of Judah, and make them like a proud horse in battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:4 - From Judah will come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:5 - Together they[fn] will be like warriors in battle trampling their enemy into the mud of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the enemy horsemen to shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:6 - “I will strengthen Judah and save the tribes of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them. They will be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the LORD their God and I will answer them.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:7 - The Ephraimites will become like warriors, and their hearts will be glad as with wine. Their children will see it and be joyful; their hearts will rejoice in the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:8 - I will signal for them and gather them in. Surely I will redeem them; they will be as numerous as before.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:9 - Though I scatter them among the peoples, yet in distant lands they will remember me. They and their children will survive, and they will return.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:10 - I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon, and there will not be room enough for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:11 - They will pass through the sea of trouble; the surging sea will be subdued and all the depths of the Nile will dry up. Assyria’s pride will be brought down and Egypt’s scepter will pass away.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:12 - I will strengthen them in the LORD and in his name they will live securely,”

declares the LORD.

NIV Footnotes
Or ruler, all of them together. / 5 They
Or ruler, all of them together. / 5 They
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