Zechariah speaks Messianically: Messiah shall come, having salvation, lowly, and riding upon an ass—He shall free the prisoners from the pit—Judah and Ephraim are instruments of the Lord.

 THE burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.

 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise.

 And ^aTyrus^• did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

 Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

 ^aAshkelon^• shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

 And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a ^aJebusite^•.

 And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes.

 ¶ Rejoice greatly, O ^adaughter^• of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy ^bKing^• cometh unto thee: he is ^cjust, and having salvation; lowly, and ^driding upon an ^eass^•, and upon a ^fcolt^• the foal of an ass.

 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the ^ahorse^• from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the ^bheathen: and his ^cdominion^• shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.

 As for thee also, by the ^ablood of thy ^bcovenant I have sent forth thy ^cprisoners out of the ^dpit^• wherein is no water.

 ¶ Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of ^ahope^•: even to day do I declare that I will ^brender^{• c}double^• unto thee;

 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.

 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with ^awhirlwinds^• of the south.

 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.

 And the LORD their God shall ^asave^• them in that ^bday^• as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the ^cstones^• of a ^dcrown^•, lifted up as an ^eensign upon his land.

 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.