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Brenton's Septuagint

Zechariah 2:9

For, behold, I bring my hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to them that serve them: and ye shall know that the Lord Almighty has sent me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Babylon;   Miracles;   Prophets;   Scofield Reference Index - Christ;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Sending and Those Sent;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions of the Wicked, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Esther;   Zechariah, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Zechariah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Apocalyptic Literature;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gareb;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Salt;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hand;   Zechariah, Book of;   Zephaniah, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For look, I am raising my hand against them, and they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the Lord of Armies has sent me.
Hebrew Names Version
For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a spoil to those who served them; and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent me.
King James Version (1611)
For behold, I will shake mine hand vpon them, and they shall bee a spoile to their seruants: and yee shall know that the Lord of hostes hath sent me.
King James Version
For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me.
English Standard Version
"Behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me.
New American Standard Bible
"For behold, I am going to wave My hand over them so that they will be plunder for their slaves. Then you will know that the LORD of armies has sent Me.
New Century Version
I will shake my hand against them so that their slaves will rob them." Then you will know that the Lord All-Powerful sent me.
Amplified Bible
"Behold, I will wave my hand over them and they shall become plunder for their own slaves. Then you shall know (recognize, understand fully) that the LORD of hosts has sent Me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For beholde, I will lift vp mine hand vpon them: and they shalbe a spoyle to those that serued them, and ye shall knowe, that the Lord of hostes hath sent me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For behold, I will wave My hand over them so that they will be plunder for their slaves. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me.
Legacy Standard Bible
For behold, I will wave My hand over them so that they will be spoil for their slaves. Then you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent Me.
Berean Standard Bible
I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me."
Contemporary English Version
And so, he will put you in the power of your slaves, and they will raid and rob you. Then you will know that I am a prophet of the Lord All-Powerful.
Complete Jewish Bible
"for," says Adonai , "I will be for her a wall of fire surrounding her; and I will be the glory within her.
Darby Translation
For behold, I will shake my hand upon them, and they shall become a spoil to those that served them: and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me.
Easy-to-Read Version
Watch and see how I will punish them: Their own slaves will become their masters and take all their wealth." Then you will know it was the Lord All-Powerful who sent me to tell you these things.
George Lamsa Translation
For, behold, I will stretch out my hand against them, and their works shall become plunder; and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.
Good News Translation
"The Lord himself will fight against you, and you will be plundered by the people who were once your servants." When this happens, everyone will know that the Lord Almighty sent me.
Lexham English Bible
"Yes, look! I am going to wave my hand against them, and they will become plunder for their servants, and you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me.
Literal Translation
For, behold, I will shake My hand over them, and they shall be a prize for their servants. And you shall know that Jehovah has sent Me.
American Standard Version
For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall be a spoil to those that served them; and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me.
Bible in Basic English
For at the shaking of my hand over them, their goods will be taken by those who were their servants: and you will see that the Lord of armies has sent me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beholde, I wyll lyft vp myne hande ouer them, so that they shall be spoyled of those which afore serued them: and ye shall knowe that the Lorde of hoastes hath sent me.
English Revised Version
For, behold, I will shake mine hand over them, and they shall be a spoil to those that served them: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me.
World English Bible
For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a spoil to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Hosts has sent me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For lo! Y reise myn hond on hem, and thei schulen be preyes to these that seruyden hem; and ye schulen knowe, that the Lord of oostis sente me.
Update Bible Version
For, look, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall be a spoil to their slaves; and you shall know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me.
Webster's Bible Translation
For behold, I will shake my hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me.
New English Translation
"I am about to punish them in such a way," he says, "that they will be looted by their own slaves." Then you will know that the Lord who rules over all has sent me.
New King James Version
For surely I will shake My hand against them, and they shall become spoil for their servants. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me.
New Living Translation
I will raise my fist to crush them, and their own slaves will plunder them." Then you will know that the Lord of Heaven's Armies has sent me.
New Life Bible
I will wave My hand over them, and they will be taken by those who were made to serve them. Then you will know that the Lord of All has sent Me.
New Revised Standard
See now, I am going to raise my hand against them, and they shall become plunder for their own slaves. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For behold me! brandishing my hand over them, and they shall become a spoil unto their own slaves, - and ye shall know that, Yahweh of hosts, hath sent me.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For behold, I lift up my hand upon them, and they shall be a prey to those that served them: and you shall know that the Lord of hosts sent me.
Revised Standard Version
"Behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.
Young's Literal Translation
For lo, I am waving my hand against them, And they have been a spoil to their servants. And ye have known that Jehovah of Hosts hath sent me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beholde, I will lift vp myne honde ouer them: so that they shal be spoyled of those, which afore serued them: & ye shal knowe, that the LORDE of hoostes hath sent me.

Contextual Overview

6 Ho, ho, flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I will gather you from the four winds of heaven, saith the Lord, 7 even to Sion: deliver yourselves, ye that dwell with the daughter of Babylon. 8 For thus saith the Lord Almighty; After the glory has he sent me to the nations that spoiled you: for he that touches you is as one that touches the apple of his eye. 9 For, behold, I bring my hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to them that serve them: and ye shall know that the Lord Almighty has sent me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: Isaiah 10:32, Isaiah 11:15, Isaiah 13:2, Isaiah 19:16

and they: Isaiah 14:2, Isaiah 33:1, Isaiah 33:23, Jeremiah 27:7, Ezekiel 39:10, Habakkuk 2:8, Habakkuk 2:17, Zephaniah 2:9

and ye: Zechariah 2:8, Zechariah 4:9, Zechariah 6:15, Jeremiah 28:9, John 13:19, John 16:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 16:10 - the angel Numbers 16:28 - Hereby Jeremiah 50:11 - ye destroyers Zephaniah 3:15 - he hath Zephaniah 3:19 - I will undo Zechariah 2:11 - thou Zechariah 12:3 - in that Zechariah 14:3 - General John 12:15 - Fear Acts 10:20 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
And God planted a garden eastward in Edem, and placed there the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:9
And God made to spring up also out of the earth every tree beautiful to the eye and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of learning the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:17
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—of it ye shall not eat, but in whatsoever day ye eat of it, ye shall surely die.
Genesis 3:3
And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden,
Deuteronomy 6:25
And there shall be mercy to us, if we take heed to keep all these commands before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.
Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to all that lay hold upon her; and she is a secure help to all that stay themselves on her, as on the Lord.
Proverbs 11:30
Out of the fruit of righteousness grows a tree of life; but the souls of transgressors are cut off before their time.
Isaiah 44:25
Who else will frustrate the tokens of those that have divining spirits, and prophecies from the heart of man? turning the wise back, and making their counsel foolishness;
Isaiah 47:10
for thy trusting in wickedness: for thou saidst, I am, and there is not another: know thou, the understanding of these things and thy harlotry shall be thy shame; for thou saidst in thy heart, I am, and there is not another.
Ezekiel 31:16
At the sound of his fall the nations quaked, when I brought him down to Hades with them that go down to the pit: and all the trees of Delight comforted him in the heart, and the choice of plants of Libanus, all that drink water.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them,.... The nations; either the Babylonian, or the antichristian states; meaning, that he would exert his power, and inflict punishment on them, and utterly destroy them; which would be done by the bare shaking of his hand:

and they shall be a spoil to their servants; as the Babylonians were to the Persians; not through Cyrus, which had been done; but through Darius, who took Babylon, after a siege of twenty months, and put great numbers to death; and all became a spoil to the Persians, who had been their servants: or the ten kings, that gave their kingdoms to the beast, and were subject to him; but now shall hate the whore, and eat her flesh; and all her riches and revenues shall be a spoil unto them, and be divided among them, Revelation 17:12:

and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me; either the Prophet Zechariah, that he was a true prophet, and had his mission from the Lord of hosts, as will appear by the accomplishment of these prophecies; or rather Christ, sent by God the Father; and who will be known and owned by the Jews, as well as by the Gentiles, to be the sent of God, when they shall be converted, and antichrist shall be destroyed. Kimchi refers this, and the following verse Zechariah 2:10, to the times of the Messiah.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For behold I will shake My hand against them - As God promised of old against the enemies of His people , and they shall be a spoil to those who served them habitually.

And ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent Me - Theodoret: “He was sent, not as God, but as Man. For as God He is equal to the Father. For He saith, “I am in the Father and the Father in Me, and, The Father who dwelleth in Me He doeth the works” John 14:10, and, “I and My Father are one” John 10:30, and “He who hath seen Me hath seen the Father” John 14:9. But He is sent, as man, fulfilling the dispensation for us, not lessening the divine nature. The prophet then intimated not the duality only, but the equality of the persons.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 2:9. I will shake mine hand upon them — I will threaten first, and then stretch out my hand of judgment against them.

A spoil to their servants — To those whom they had formerly subjected to their sway. As the Babylonians to the Medes and Persians; and so of the rest in the subversion of empires.


 
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