Zechariah 9:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Return to your stronghold,O prisoners of hope;even today I declarethat I will restore to you double.”
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“Return to your stronghold,O prisoners of hope;even today I declarethat I will restore to you double.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;”
King James Version · Public Domain“Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Turn back to a fenced place, Ye prisoners of the hope, Even to-day a second announcer I restore to thee.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Zechariah 9:12 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 42:10After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.
- Isaiah 38:18For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
- Isaiah 40:2“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”
- Isaiah 49:9to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.
- Isaiah 52:2Shake off your dust! Rise up and sit on your throne, O Jerusalem. Remove the chains from your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion.
- Isaiah 61:7Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.
- Jeremiah 31:6For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’”
- Jeremiah 31:17So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.
- Jeremiah 50:4“In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.
- Jeremiah 50:28Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.
- Jeremiah 51:10“The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”
- Lamentations 3:21Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
- Ezekiel 37:11Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
- Hosea 2:15There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
- Joel 3:16The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
- Micah 4:8And you, O watchtower of the flock, O stronghold of the Daughter of Zion— the former dominion will be restored to you; sovereignty will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem.”
- Nahum 1:7The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him.
- Hebrews 6:18Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
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