Zechariah 10:9

Christian Standard Bible ®

Though I sow them among the nations,they will remember me in the distant lands;they and their children will live and return.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
I will sow them among the peoples; And they will remember me in far countries; And they will live with their children, and will return.

King James Version (1611)
And I will sow them among the people, and they shall remember me in farre countries, and they shall liue with their children, and turne againe.

King James Version
And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.

English Standard Version
Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and return.

New American Standard Bible
"When I scatter them among the peoples, They will remember Me in distant countries, And they with their children will live and come back.

New Century Version
I have scattered them among the nations, but in those faraway places, they will remember me. They and their children will live and return.

Amplified Bible
"When I scatter them among the nations, They will remember Me in far countries, And with their children they will live and come back [to Me and the land I gave them].

Geneva Bible (1587)
And I will sowe them among the people, and they shall remember me in farre countreys: and they shall liue with their children and turne againe.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"When I scatter them among the peoples, They will remember Me in far countries, And they with their children will live and come back.

Legacy Standard Bible
And I will sow them among the peoples,And they will remember Me in far countries,And they with their children will live and turn back.

Berean Standard Bible
Though I sow them among the nations, they will remember Me in distant lands; they and their children will live and return.

Contemporary English Version
Although I scattered my people in distant countries, they won't forget me. Once their children are raised, they will return—

Complete Jewish Bible
and I will sow them among the peoples. In distant lands they will remember me; they will rear their children and then return.

Darby Translation
And I will sow them among the peoples, and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children and return.

Easy-to-Read Version
Yes, I have been scattering my people throughout the nations. But in those faraway places, they will remember me. They and their children will survive, and they will come back.

George Lamsa Translation
And I will scatter them among the nations, yet they shall praise me in far countries; and they shall rear their children and return again.

Good News Translation
Though I have scattered them among the nations, yet in far-off places they will remember me. They and their children will survive and return home together.

Lexham English Bible
Though I sow them among the nations, in the distant places they will remember me, and they will stay alive with their children, and they will return.

Literal Translation
And I will sow them among the peoples, and they shall remember Me in far countries, and they shall live with their sons and return.

American Standard Version
And I will sow them among the peoples; and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and shall return.

Bible in Basic English
Though I had them planted among the peoples, they will keep me in mind in far countries: and they will take care of their children and will come back.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I will sow them among the peoples, and they shall remember Me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and shall return.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyll sowe them among the people, that they may thincke vpon me in farre countryes, they shal liue with their children, and turne againe.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will sow them among the people; and they that are afar off shall remember me: they shall nourish their children, and they shall return.

English Revised Version
And I will sow them among the peoples; and they shall remember me in far countries: and they shall live with their children, and shall return.

World English Bible
I will sow them among the peoples; And they will remember me in far countries; And they will live with their children, and will return.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal sowe hem in puplis, and fro fer thei schulen bithenke of me; and thei schulen lyue with her sones, and schulen turne ayen.

Update Bible Version
And I will sow them among the peoples; and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall raise their sons, and shall return.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in remote countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.

New English Translation
Though I scatter them among the nations, they will remember in far-off places—they and their children will sprout forth and return.

New King James Version
"I will sow them among the peoples, And they shall remember Me in far countries; They shall live, together with their children, And they shall return.

New Living Translation
Though I have scattered them like seeds among the nations, they will still remember me in distant lands. They and their children will survive and return again to Israel.

New Life Bible
Even when I send them everywhere among the nations, they will remember Me in far countries. They and their children will live and return.

New Revised Standard
Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and they shall rear their children and return.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Though I scatter them among the peoples, yet, in places far away, shall they remember me, - and they shall live with their children, and shall return;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will sow them among peoples: and from afar they shall remember me: and they shall live with their children, and shall return.

Revised Standard Version
Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and return.

Young's Literal Translation
And I sow them among peoples, And in far-off places they remember Me, And they have lived with their sons, And they have turned back.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wil sowe the amonge the people, yt they maye thinke vpo me in farre countrees: they shal lyue wt their childre, and turne agayne.

Contextual Overview

⁵ they will be like warriors in battle trampling down the mud of the streets. They will fight because the Lord is with them, and they will put horsemen to shame. ⁶I will strengthen the house of Judahand deliver the house of Joseph.I will restore thembecause I have compassion on them,and they will beas though I had never rejected them.For I am the Lord their God,and I will answer them. ⁷Ephraim will be like a warrior,and their hearts will be glad as if with wine.Their children will see it and be glad;their hearts will rejoice in the Lord. ⁸I will whistle and gather thembecause I have redeemed them;they will be as numerous as they once were. ⁹Though I sow them among the nations,they will remember me in the distant lands;they and their children will live and return.¹⁰I will bring them back from the land of Egyptand gather them from Assyria.I will bring them to the land of Gileadand to Lebanon,but it will not be enough for them. ¹¹The Lord will pass through the sea of distressand strike the waves of the sea;all the depths of the Nile will dry up.The pride of Assyria will be brought down,and the scepter of Egypt will come to an end. ¹²I will strengthen them in the Lord,and they will march in his name—

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sow: Esther 8:17, Jeremiah 31:27, Daniel 3:1 - Daniel 6:28, Hosea 2:23, Amos 9:9, Micah 5:7, Acts 8:1, Acts 8:4, Acts 11:19-21, Acts 13:1-38, Acts 14:1 - Acts 21:16, Romans 11:11-15

remember: Deuteronomy 30:1-4, 1 Kings 8:47, 1 Kings 8:48, Nehemiah 1:9, Jeremiah 51:50, Ezekiel 6:9

live: Isaiah 65:9, Isaiah 65:23, Acts 2:38, Acts 2:39, Acts 3:25, Acts 3:26, Acts 13:32, Acts 13:33, Romans 11:16, Romans 11:17, Romans 11:24

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:39 - shall pine Isaiah 24:15 - isles Isaiah 27:6 - General Isaiah 52:6 - my people Jeremiah 31:21 - O Ezekiel 36:37 - I will yet Matthew 13:38 - the good 2 Corinthians 5:15 - that they

Cross-References

Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth both in those days and afterward, when the sons of God came to the daughters of mankind, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.

Genesis 6:11
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness.

Genesis 13:13
(Now the men of Sodom were evil, sinning immensely against the Lord.)

Genesis 25:27
When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.

Genesis 27:30
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau arrived from his hunting.

2 Chronicles 28:22
At the time of his distress, King Ahaz himself became more unfaithful to the Lord.

Psalms 52:7
“Here is the manwho would not make God his refuge,but trusted in the abundance of his riches,taking refuge in his destructive behavior.”

Jeremiah 16:16
“I am about to send for many fishermen”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks,

Ezekiel 13:18
Say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Woe to the women who sew magic bands on the wrist of every hand and who make veils for the heads of people of every size in order to ensnare lives. Will you ensnare the lives of my people but preserve your own?

Micah 7:2
Faithful people have vanished from the land;there is no one upright among the people.All of them wait in ambush to shed blood;they hunt each other with a net.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will sow them among the people, The people of God in the Gentile world: this is to be understood of the conversion of the Jews, when they will become the good seed that hear the word, and understand it, and bring forth fruit; and of their being known, acknowledged, and reckoned among the people of God, who now are not; and of their being planted in Gospel churches, where the word is truly preached; the ordinances are faithfully administered; the Lord grants his presence, and saints have communion one with another; to be in such a fruitful soil, and in such sacred enclosures, fenced by the power and grace of God, is a great happiness:

and they shall remember me in far countries; they shall call to mind what their ancestors did to Christ, and mourn on account of a pierced Saviour; they shall remember him in the ordinance of the supper, being in a Gospel church state; they shall remember what he did and suffered for them, and his love to them in all, and that with faith, affection, and thankfulness:

and they shall live with their children; a very happy, comfortable, temporal life; and they shall live a spiritual life; a life of faith on Christ; of communion with him, and of holiness from him, and to his glory: and their children also shall live the same life, being regenerated and quickened by the same grace; these are the church's children:

and turn again; that is, when they shall turn again, either to the Lord, shall be converted unto him; or return to their own land.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I will sow them among the nations - Such had been the prophecy of Hosea; “I will sow her unto Me in the earth,” as the prelude of spiritual mercies, “and I will have mercy on her that had not obtained mercy, and I will say to not-my-people, Thou art My people, and they shall say, my God” . Hosea’s saying, “I will sow her in the earth” that is, the whole earth and that “to Me,” corresponds to, and explains Zechariah’s brief saying, “I will sow them among the nations.” The sowing, which was future to Hosea, had begun; but the purpose of the sowing, the harvest, was wholly to come; when it should be seen, that they were indeed sown by God, that “great” should “be the day of Jezreel” (Hosea 1:11. See vol. i. p. 25). And Jeremiah said, “Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah, with the seed of man and with the seed of beast” Jeremiah 31:27. The word is used of sowing to multiply, never of mere scattering .

And they shall remember Me in far countries - So Ezekiel had said, “And they that escape of you shall remember Me among the nations, whither they shall be carried captive - and they shall loath themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations, and they shall know that I am the Lord” Ezekiel 6:9.

And shall live - As Ezekiel again says, “Ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and bring you up out of your graves, O My people, and shall put My Spirit in you, and ye shall live” Ezekiel 37:13-14. “With their children.” A continuous gift, as Ezekiel, “they and their children, and their children’s children forever: and My servant David shall be their prince forever.” Ezekiel 37:25.

And turn again - To God, being converted, as Jeremiah had been bidden to exhort them; “Go and proclaim these words toward the north” Jeremiah 3:12, the cities of the Medes whither they were carried captive, “and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, and I will not cause Mine anger to fall upon you;” “Turn, O backsliding children - and I with take you, one of a city, and two of a family, and will bring you to Zion, and I will give you pastors according to Mine heart” Jeremiah 3:14-15. “Return, ye backsliding children; I will heal your backslidings.” And they answer, “Behold, we come unto Thee; for Thou art the Lord our God” Jeremiah 3:22. So Isaiah had said, “A remnant shall return, the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God” . Dionysius: “They shall return by recollection of mind and adunation and simplification of the affections toward God so as ultimately to intend that one thing, which alone is necessary.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 10:9. I will sow them among the people — Wherever they have been dispersed, my voice in the preaching of the Gospel shall reach them. And they shall remember me, and they and their children shall turn again to the Lord, through Messiah their King.