Zechariah 10

¹Ask of the LORD rain in the spring time,

The LORD who makes storm clouds,

and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.

²For the teraphim have spoken vanity,

and the diviners have seen a lie;

and they have told false dreams.

They comfort in vain.

Therefore they go their way like sheep.

They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.

³My anger is kindled against the shepherds,

and I will punish the male goats,

for the LORD of Hosts has visited his flock, the house of Judah,

and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle.

⁴From him will come the cornerstone,

from him the tent peg,

from him the battle bow,

from him every ruler together.

⁵They will be as mighty men,

treading down muddy streets in the battle.

They will fight, because the LORD is with them.

The riders on horses will be confounded.

⁶“I will strengthen the house of Judah,

and I will save the house of Joseph.

I will bring them back,

for I have mercy on them.

They will be as though I had not cast them off,

for I am the LORD their God, and I will hear them.

⁷Ephraim will be like a mighty man,

and their heart will rejoice as through wine.

Yes, their children will see it and rejoice.

Their heart will be glad in the LORD.

⁸I will signal for them and gather them,

for I have redeemed them.

They will increase as they were before.

⁹I will sow them among the peoples.

They will remember me in far countries.

They will live with their children and will return.

¹⁰I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt,

and gather them out of Assyria.

I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon;

and there won’t be room enough for them.

¹¹He will pass through the sea of affliction,

and will strike the waves in the sea,

and all the depths of the Nile will dry up;

and the pride of Assyria will be brought down,

and the scepter of Egypt will depart.

¹²I will strengthen them in the LORD.

They will walk up and down in his name,” says the LORD.