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Zechariah 10

1 The vanitie of idolatrie. 3 The Lord promiseth to visit and comfort the house of Israél.
1.Ask you of the aLord rain in the time of the latter rain: so shal the Lord make white clouds, and give you showers of rain, and to every one grass in the field.
2.Surely bthe idoles have spoken vanitie, and the sothsayers have seen a lie, and the dreamers have told a vain thing: they comfort in vain: therefore cthey went away as sheep: they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
3.My wrath was kindled against the shepherds, and I did visit the dgoats: but the Lord of hostes will visit his flock the house of Judáh, and will make them as ehis beautiful horse in the battle.
4.Out fof him shal the corner come forth: out of him the nail, out of him the bow of battle, and out of him every gappointer of tribute also.
5.And they shalbe as the mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the myre of the streets in the battle, and they shal fight, because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shalbe confounded.
6.And I will strengthen the house of Judáh, and I will preserve the house hof Joséph, and I will bring them again, for I pity them: and they shalbe as though I had not cast them off: for I am the Lord their God, and will hear them.
7.And they of Ephráim shalbe as a giant, and their heart shal rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shal see it, and be glad: and their heart shal rejoyce in the Lord.
8.I wil ihiss for them, and gather them: for I have redeemed them: and they shal encrease, as they have encreased.
9.And I will ksow them among the people, and they shal remember me in far countries: and they shal live with their children and lturn again.
10.I wil bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Asshúr: and I wil bring them into the land of Gileád, and Lebanón, and place shal not be found for them.
11.And he mshal go into the sea with affliction, and shal smite the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the river shal dry up: and the pride of Asshúr shalbe cast down, and the scepter of Egypt shal depart away.
12.And I will strengthen them in the Lord, and they shal walk in his Name, saith, the Lord.

Notes

1-a.
The Prophet reproves the Jews because by their own infidelity they put back God’s graces promised, and so famine came by God’s just judgement: therefore to avoid this plague he wills them to turn to God, and to pray in faith to him, and so he will give them abundance.
2-b.
He calls to remembrance God’s punishments in times past because they trusted not in him, but in their idols and sorcerers who ever deceived them.
2-c.
That is, the Jews went into captivity.
3-d.
Meaning, the cruel governors which did oppress the poor sheep, Ezek. 34.17.
3-e.
He will be merciful to his Church and cherish them as a King or Prince does his best horse which shall be for his own use in the war.
4-f.
Out of Judah shall the chief governor proceed, who shall be as a corner to uphold the building and as a nail to fasten it together.
4-g.
Over their enemies.
6-h.
That is, the ten tribes, which should be gathered under Christ to the rest of the Church.
8-I.
Whereby he declares the power of God who needs no great preparation when he will deliver his: for with a beck or hiss he can call them from all places suddenly.
9-k.
Though they shall yet be scattered and seem to be lost, yet it shall be profitable unto them: for there they shall come to the knowledge of my Name, which was accomplished under the Gospel, among whom it was first preached.
9-l.
Not that they should return into their country, but be gathered and joined in one faith by the doctrine of the Gospel.
11-m.
He alludes to the deliverance of the people out of Egypt where as the Angel smote the floods and rivers.