{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/zechariah/9","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-29T17:39:59.564Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Zechariah","bookSlug":"zechariah","chapter":9,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":8,"nextChapter":10,"totalChapters":14,"totalVerses":17},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach, and of Damascus the rest thereof: for the eye of man, and of all the tribes of Israel is the Lord's. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Emath also in the borders thereof, and Tyre, and Sidon: for they have taken to themselves to be exceeding wise. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Behold the Lord shall possess her, and shall strike her strength in the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Ascalon shall see, and shall fear, and Gaza, and shall be very sorrowful: and Accaron, because her hope is confounded : and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ascalon shall not be inhabited. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And the divider shall sit in Azotus, and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: and even he shall be left to our God, and he shall be as a governor in Juda, and Accaron as a Jebusite. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And I will encompass my house with them that serve me in war, going and returning, and the oppressor shall no more pass through them: for now I have seen with my eyes. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And I will destroy the chariot out of Ephraim, and the horse out of Jerusalem, and the bow for war shall be broken: and he shall speak peace to the Gentiles, and his power shall be from sea to sea, and from the rivers even to the end of the earth. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Thou also by the blood of thy testament hast sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Return to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope, I will render thee double at, I declare to day. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Because I have bent Juda for me as a bow, I have filled Ephraim: and I will raise up thy sons, O Sion, above thy sons, O Greece, and I will make thee as the sword of the mighty. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And the Lord God shall be seen over them, and his dart shall go forth as lightning: and the Lord God will sound the trumpet, and go in the whirlwind of the south. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"The Lord of hosts will protect them: and they shall devour, and subdue with the stones of the sling: and drinking they shall be inebriated as it were with wine, and they shall be filled as bowls, and as the horns of the altar. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And the Lord their God will save them in that day, as the dock of his people: for holy stones shall be lifted up over his land. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For what is the good thing of him, and what is his beautiful thing, but the corn of the elect, and wine springing forth virgins? "}],"citation":{"inline":"Zechariah 9 (DRB)","markdown":"[Zechariah 9](https://primebible.com/drb/zechariah/9)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/zechariah/9 (accessed 2026-05-29)."}}