9  ^yRejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!

Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!

^zBehold, ^ayour king is coming to you;

righteous and having salvation is he,

^bhumble and mounted on a donkey,

on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

10  ^cI will cut off the chariot from Ephraim

and ^dthe war horse from Jerusalem;

and the battle bow shall be cut off,

and ^ehe shall speak peace to the nations;

^fhis rule shall be from sea to sea,

and from ^gthe River¹ to the ends of the earth.

11  As for you also, because of ^hthe blood of my covenant with you,

ⁱI will set your prisoners free from ^jthe waterless pit.

12  Return to your stronghold, O ^kprisoners of hope;

today I declare that ^lI will restore to you double.

13  For ^mI have bent Judah as my bow;

I have made Ephraim its arrow.

I will stir up your sons, O Zion,

against your sons, ⁿO Greece,

and wield you like a warrior’s sword.

14  Then the Lord will appear over them,

and ^ohis arrow will go forth like lightning;

^pthe Lord God will sound the trumpet

and will march forth in ^qthe whirlwinds ^rof the south.

15  The Lord of hosts ^swill protect them,

and ^tthey shall devour, ^uand tread down the sling stones,

and ^vthey shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine,

and be full like a bowl,

drenched ^wlike the corners of the altar.

16  On that day the Lord their God will save them,

as ^xthe flock of his people;

for ^ylike the jewels of a crown

they shall shine on his land.

17  ^zFor how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty!

^aGrain shall make the young men flourish,

and new wine the young women.