---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Zechariah from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 9
verse_count: 17
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Zechariah, chap. 9, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Zechariah 9

*Jerusalem exhorted to rejoice for the coming of Christ God's promise of defence.*

**1** The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof; when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the Lord.
**2** And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise.
**3** And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the m-ire of the streets.
**4** Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
**5** Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
**6** And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
**7** And I will take away his bloodou: of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth; but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
**8** And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth; and no oppressor shall pass through them any more; for now have I seen with mine eyes.
**9** Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, thy King cometh unto thee; he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
**10** And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim.. and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off; and he shall speak peace unto the heathen; and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
**11** As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
**12** Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope; even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
**13** When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
**14** And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning; and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
**15** The Lord of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling-stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine: and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.
**16** And the Lord their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people; fo-r they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.
**17** For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.