Zechariah 10:8-10
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
8 I will whistle for them and gather them in;
for I will redeem them
and they will be as numerous as before.[a]
9 I sowed them among the nations,
yet in distant lands they will remember me;
they will bear their children and return.(A)
10 I will bring them back from the land of Egypt,
and gather them from Assyria.
To the land of Gilead and to Lebanon I will bring them,
until no room is found for them.
Footnotes
- 10:8 Gather them in…be as numerous as before: God’s intention is to bring back the exiles and redeem them as at the time of the exodus. This image, resumed in vv. 10–11, anticipates an expanded population, echoes the ancestral promise (Gn 1:22, 28; 9:1, 7; 35:11), and also suggests an awareness of the acute demographic decline of Jews in Palestine in the Persian period.
Zechariah 10:8-10
New International Version
8 I will signal(A) for them
and gather them in.
Surely I will redeem them;
they will be as numerous(B) as before.
9 Though I scatter them among the peoples,
yet in distant lands they will remember me.(C)
They and their children will survive,
and they will return.
10 I will bring them back from Egypt
and gather them from Assyria.(D)
I will bring them to Gilead(E) and Lebanon,
and there will not be room(F) enough for them.
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