Zechariah 9:1 Cross References - MLV

¹ The burden of the word of Jehovah upon the land of Hadrach and Damascus its resting-place (for the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Jehovah),

¹⁵ And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants and killed* them and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

¹² O our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. Neither do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon you.

¹⁵ My eyes are ever toward Jehovah, because he will pluck my feet out of the net.

¹⁵ The eyes of all wait for you and you give them their food in due season.

⁸ The Lord sent a word into Jacob and it has lighted upon Israel. ⁹ And all the people will know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart, ¹⁰ The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone, the sycamores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.
¹¹ Therefore Jehovah will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin and will stir up his enemies, ¹² the Syrians in front and the Philistines behind and they will devour Israel with open mouth.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
¹³ Yet the people have not turned to him who killed* them, nor have they sought Jehovah of hosts. ¹⁴ Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day. ¹⁵ The elder and the honorable man, he is the head. And the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail. ¹⁶ For those who lead this people make them go-astray and those who are led by them are destroyed.
¹⁷ Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, nor will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows. For everyone is profane and an evildoer and every mouth does senselessness.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
¹⁸ For wickedness burns as the fire. It devours the briers and thorns. Yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest and they roll upward in a column of smoke. ¹⁹ Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land burnt up and the people are as the fuel of fire; no man spares his brother.
²⁰ And he will snatch on the right hand and be hungry. And he will eat on the left hand and they will not be satisfied. They will eat every man the flesh of his own arm– ²¹ Manasseh, Ephraim and Ephraim, Manasseh and together they will be against Judah.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

¹ The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

¹ The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city and it will be a ruinous heap. ² The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which will lie down and none will make them afraid. ³ And the fortress will cease from Ephraim and the kingdom from Damascus. And the remnant of Syria, they will be as the glory of the sons of Israel, says Jehovah of hosts.

⁷ In that day men will look to their maker and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel. ⁸ And they will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, nor will they have respect for what their fingers have made, either the Asherim or the sun-images.

²⁰ Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, you* that are escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image and pray to a god that cannot save. ²¹ Declare and bring it forth. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from long-ago? Who has declared it long since? Have not I, Jehovah? And there is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is none besides me. ²² Look to me and be you* saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none else.

¹⁰ Jehovah has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

¹⁹ O Jehovah, my strength and my stronghold and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and will say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, even vanity and things in which there is no profit.

³³ And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, will ask you, saying, What is the burden of Jehovah? Then you will say to them, What burden?
I will cast you* off, says Jehovah. ³⁴ And as for the prophet and the priest and the people, who will say, The burden of Jehovah, I will even punish that man and his house.
³⁵ Thus you* will say each one to his neighbor and each one to his brother, What has Jehovah answered? and, What has Jehovah spoken? ³⁶ And the burden of Jehovah you* will mention no more, for every man's own word will be his burden. For you* have perverted the words of the living God, of Jehovah of hosts our God.
³⁷ Thus you will say to the prophet: What has Jehovah answered you? and, What has Jehovah spoken? ³⁸ But if you* say, The burden of Jehovah, therefore Jehovah says thus: Because you* say this word, The burden of Jehovah and I have sent to you*, saying, You* will not say, The burden of Jehovah,

²³ Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded and Arpad, for they have heard evil news. They are melted away. There is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. ²⁴ Damascus has grown feeble. She turns herself to flee and trembling has seized on her. Anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.
²⁵ How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy? ²⁶ Therefore her young men will fall in her streets and all the men of war will be brought to silence in that day, says Jehovah of hosts. ²⁷ And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus and it will devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

³ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron. ⁴ But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael and it will devour the palaces of Ben-hadad. ⁵ And I will break the bar of Damascus and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven and he who holds the scepter from the house of Eden and the people of Syria will go into captivity to Kir, says Jehovah.

¹² Jehovah says thus: As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so will the sons of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria in the corner of a couch and on the silken cushions of a bed.

⁴ I will cause it to go forth, says Jehovah of hosts and it will enter into the house of the thief and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it will abide in the midst of his house and will consume it, with the timber of it and the stones of it.

²¹ And the inhabitants of one city will go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Jehovah and to seek Jehovah of hosts. I will go also. ²² Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of Jehovah.
²³ Jehovah of hosts says thus: In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you*, for we have heard that God is with you*.

¹ The burden of the word of Jehovah to Israel by Malachi.