Zechariah 13:9
What does Zechariah 13:9 mean?
A plain-English look at Zechariah 13:9 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
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WEB
World English Bible · 2000And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, `My people it <FI>is<Fi> ,' And it saith, `Jehovah <FI> is<Fi> my God!'
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined: and I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: Thou art my people: and they shall say: The Lord is my God.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is myGod.
Context
v.8And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith Jehovah, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
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Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 36:28
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
- Revelation 21:7
He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
- Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
- Leviticus 26:44
And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God;
- Psalms 66:10
For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
- Zechariah 12:10
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look unto me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born.
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