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your King is coming

Zechariah 9:1-17

Zechariah 9:1 A pronouncement: The word of Yahveh is against the land of Hadrach, and Damascus is its resting place – for the eyes of humanity and all the tribes of Israel are on Yahveh –
Zechariah 9:2 and also against Hamath, which borders it, as well as Tyre and Sidon, though they are very shrewd.
Zechariah 9:3 Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust and gold like the dirt of the streets.
Zechariah 9:4 Notice! Yahveh will impoverish her and cast her wealth into the sea; she herself will be consumed by fire.
Zechariah 9:5 Ashkelon will see it and be afraid; Gaza too, and will convulse in great pain, as will Ekron, for her hope will fail. There will cease to be a king in Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be lived in.
Zechariah 9:6 A mongrel people will live in Ashdod, and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.
Zechariah 9:7 I will remove the blood from their mouths and the abhorrent things from between their teeth. Then they too will become a remnant for our God, like a clan in Judah and Ekron like the Jebusites.
Zechariah 9:8 I will encamp at my house as a guard, against those who march back and forth, and no oppressor will march against them again, for now, I have seen with my own eyes.
Zechariah 9:9 Loudly shriek ecstatically, Daughter Zion! Shout in triumph, Daughter Jerusalem! Notice, your King is coming to you; he is righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the donkey’s foal.
Zechariah 9:10 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 land.
Zechariah 9:11 As for you, because of the blood of your covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless cistern.
Zechariah 9:12 Return to a stronghold, you prisoners who have hope; today I declare that I will restore double to you.
Zechariah 9:13 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. I will make you like a warrior’s sword.
Zechariah 9:14 Then Yahveh will appear over them, and his arrow will fly like lightning. Yahveh God will sound the ram’s horn bugle and advance with the southern storms.
Zechariah 9:15 Yahveh of Armies will defend them. They will consume and conquer with sling stones; they will drink and be rowdy as if with wine. They will be as complete as the sprinkling basin, like those at the altar’s corners.
Zechariah 9:16 Yahveh 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.
Zechariah 9:17 How lovely and beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.

your King is coming

Not only will the LORD rescue his flock from the present oppressors, but the next world dominating empire that Daniel predicted (Greece: Daniel 8:21) will be overcome as well. Then, a king will arise who will speak peace to the nations. He will be righteous and have salvation. He will enter humbly, riding on a donkey. He will rule from sea to sea. The prisoners are told to return to their stronghold, because the LORD promises to restore to them double what they lost.

LORD, thank you for the promise of restoration, and the restoring king who entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey.