Zechariah 10 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

God Will Bless Judah and Ephraim

1Ask for rain from the Lord at the time of the spring rain.

It is the Lord who makes the thunder clouds;

And He will give them showers of rain, grass in the field to everyone.

2For the teraphim (household idols) speak wickedness (emptiness, worthlessness),

And the diviners see lying visions

And tell false dreams;

They comfort in vain.

Therefore the people wander like sheep,

They are afflicted and suffer because there is no shepherd.

3“My anger is kindled against the shepherds,

And I shall punish the male goats (leaders);

For the Lord of hosts has visited His flock, the house of Judah (the Southern Kingdom),

And will make them like His beautiful and majestic horse in the battle.

4“From them (Judah) shall come the Cornerstone,

From them the tent peg,

From them the bow of battle,

From them every ruler, all of them together.

5“They will be like mighty men

Trampling down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle;

And they will fight because the Lord is with them,

And the riders on horses will be shamed.

6“I will strengthen the house of Judah,

And I will save the house of Joseph.

I will bring them back,

Because I have had compassion on them.

They will be as though I had not rejected them,

For I am the Lord their God, and I will listen and answer them.

7“Then Ephraim will be like a mighty warrior,

And their heart will rejoice as if from wine;

Yes, their children will see it and rejoice;

Their heart will rejoice and shout triumphantly in the Lord.

8“I will whistle for them and gather them together,

For I have redeemed them;

And they will increase as they have increased before.

9“When I scatter them among the nations,

They will remember Me in far countries,

And with their children they will live and come back.

10“I will bring them (all Israel) back home again from the land of Egypt

And gather them from Assyria,

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

Until no room can be found for them.

11“And they will pass through the sea of distress and anxiety

And He will strike the waves in the sea,

So that all the depths of the Nile will dry up;

And the pride of Assyria will be brought down

And the scepter of Egypt will pass away.

12“And I will strengthen Israel in the Lord,

And they will walk in His name,” declares the Lord.