Zechariah 9:11 “As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your p…”

Zechariah 9:11

As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

World English Bible

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

American Standard Version

As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit wherein is no water.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou also shalt be saued through the blood of thy couenant. I haue loosed thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

Darby Translation

As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant, I will send forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

Young's Literal Translation

Also thou — by the blood of thy covenant, I have sent thy prisoners out of the pit, There is no water in it.

Bible in Basic English

And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.

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Cross references

“As”

Deuteronomy 5:31 2 Samuel 13:13 2 Chronicles 7:17 Daniel 2:29

Deuteronomy 5:31 · BSB

But you stand here with Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and statutes and ordinances you are to teach them to follow in the land that I am giving them to possess.”

2 Samuel 13:13 · BSB

Where could I ever take my shame? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel! Please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”

2 Chronicles 7:17 · BSB

And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

Daniel 2:29 · BSB

As you lay on your bed, O king, your thoughts turned to the future, and the Revealer of Mysteries made known to you what will happen.

“by the blood of thy covenant”

Exodus 24:8 Matthew 26:28 1 Corinthians 11:25 Hebrews 10:29 Mark 14:24 Luke 22:20

Exodus 24:8 · BSB

So Moses took the blood, splattered it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

Matthew 26:28 · BSB

This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

1 Corinthians 11:25 · BSB

In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

Hebrews 10:29 · BSB

How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

Mark 14:24 · BSB

He said to them, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.

Luke 22:20 · BSB

In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you.

“I have”

Isaiah 51:14 Psalm 102:19–21 Isaiah 42:7 Isaiah 49:9 Psalm 69:33 Psalm 107:10–16

Isaiah 51:14 · BSB

The captive will soon be freed; he will not die in the dungeon, and his bread will not be lacking.

Psalm 102:19–21 · BSB

For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth

Isaiah 42:7 · BSB

to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

Isaiah 49:9 · BSB

to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.

Psalm 69:33 · BSB

For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.

Psalm 107:10–16 · BSB

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

“out”

Psalm 40:2 Psalm 30:3 Jeremiah 38:6 Revelation 20:3 Luke 16:24

Psalm 40:2 · BSB

He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

Psalm 30:3 · BSB

O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.

Jeremiah 38:6 · BSB

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremia…

Revelation 20:3 · BSB

And he threw him into the Abyss, shut it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations until the thousand years were complete. After that, he must be released for a brief period of time.

Luke 16:24 · BSB

So he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. For I am in agony in this fire.’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be broken. Then He will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.

12Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.

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