The Coming Ruler of God’s People

⁹Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion!
   Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem!
Lo, your king comes to you;
   triumphant and victorious is he,
humble and riding on a donkey,
   on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
¹⁰He^* will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
   and the warhorse from Jerusalem;
and the battle-bow shall be cut off,
   and he shall command peace to the nations;
his dominion shall be from sea to sea,
   and from the River to the ends of the earth.

¹¹As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you,
   I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
¹²Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope;
   today I declare that I will restore to you double.