Behold, thy king cometh unto thee.
He is just, and having salvation, lowly, and riding upon an ass,
and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.
And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem,
and the battle-bow shall be cut off.
And he shall speak peace unto the heathen, and his dominion shall be from sea even to
sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners
out of the pit wherein is no water.
Turn ye to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope.
Even today do I declare that I will render 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 whirlwinds of
the south.
The Lord of hosts shall defend them, and they shall devour and subdue with
slingstones, 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 save them in that day as the flock of his people,
for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign 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.