< Zechariah 10 >
1 to ask from LORD rain in/on/with time spring rain LORD to make lightning and rain rain to give: give to/for them to/for man: anyone vegetation in/on/with land: country
They asked of YHWH rain In a time of spring rain, YHWH is making lightnings, And He gives to them rain [in] showers. To each—the herb in the field.
2 for [the] teraphim to speak: speak evil: wickedness and [the] to divine to see deception and dream [the] vanity: false to speak: speak vanity to be sorry: comfort [emph?] upon so to set out like flock to afflict for nothing to pasture
Because the teraphim spoke iniquity, And the diviners have seen a falsehood, And dreams of the vanity they speak, [With] vanity they give comfort, Therefore they have journeyed as a flock, They are afflicted, for there is no shepherd.
3 upon [the] to pasture to be incensed face: anger my and upon [the] goat to reckon: visit for to reckon: visit LORD Hosts [obj] flock his [obj] house: household Judah and to set: make [obj] them like/as horse splendor his in/on/with battle
“My anger burned against the shepherds, And I lay a charge against the male goats, For YHWH of Hosts has inspected His flock, the house of Judah, And set them as His splendid horse in battle.
4 from him corner from him peg from him bow battle from him to come out: produce all to oppress together
From him [is] a cornerstone, From him a nail, from him a battle-bow, From him goes forth every exactor together.
5 and to be like/as mighty man to trample in/on/with mud outside in/on/with battle and to fight for LORD with them and be ashamed to ride horse
And they have been as heroes, Treading in mire of out-places in battle, And they have fought, for YHWH [is] with them, And have put to shame riders of horses.
6 and to prevail [obj] house: household Judah and [obj] house: household Joseph to save and to return: return them for to have compassion them and to be like/as as which not to reject them for I LORD God their and to answer them
And I have made the house of Judah mighty, And I save the house of Joseph, And I have caused them to dwell, for I have loved them, And they have been as [if] I had not cast them off, For I [am] their God YHWH, And I answer them.
7 and to be like/as mighty man Ephraim and to rejoice heart their like wine and son: child their to see: see and to rejoice to rejoice heart their in/on/with LORD
And Ephraim has been as a hero, And their heart has rejoiced as wine, And their sons see, and they have rejoiced, Their heart rejoices in YHWH.
8 to whistle to/for them and to gather them for to ransom them and to multiply like to multiply
I hiss for them, and I gather them, For I have redeemed them, And they have multiplied as they multiplied.
9 and to sow them in/on/with people and in/on/with distance to remember me and to live with son: child their and to return: return
And I sow them among peoples, And in far-off places they remember Me, And they have lived with their sons, And they have turned back.
10 and to return: return them from land: country/planet Egypt and from Assyria to gather them and to(wards) land: country/planet Gilead and Lebanon to come (in): bring them and not to find to/for them
And I have brought them back from the land of Egypt, And I gather them from Asshur, And I bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, And [space] is not found for them there.
11 and to pass in/on/with sea distress and to smite in/on/with sea heap: wave and to wither all depth Nile and to go down pride Assyria and tribe: staff Egypt to turn aside: depart
And He has passed over through the sea, And has pressed and struck billows in the sea, And all depths of a flood have been dried up, And the excellence of Asshur has been brought down, And the rod of Egypt turns aside.
12 and to prevail them in/on/with LORD and in/on/with name his to go: walk utterance LORD
And I have made them mighty in YHWH, And in His Name they walk up and down,” A declaration of YHWH!