Zechariah 3:8-10

Contemporary English Version

⁸^(A) Listen carefully, High Priest Joshua and all of you other priests. You are a sign of things to come, because I am going to bring my servant, the Chosen King.^[a]

⁹Joshua, I have placed in front of you a stone with seven sides.^[b] I will engrave something on that stone, and in a single day I will forgive this guilty country. ¹⁰^(B) Then each of you will live at peace and entertain your friends in your own vineyard and under your own fig trees.

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Footnotes

3.8 Chosen King: The Hebrew text has “Sprout” or “Branch,” a term used of royalty (see Isaiah 11.1).
3.9 seven sides: Or “seven eyes.”

Zechariah 3:8-10

New International Version

⁸“‘Listen, High Priest^(A) Joshua, you and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic^(B) of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch.^(C) ⁹See, the stone I have set in front of Joshua!^(D) There are seven eyes^[a]^(E) on that one stone,^(F) and I will engrave an inscription on it,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will remove the sin^(G) of this land in a single day.