the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Zechariah 9:11
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Jerusalem, we used blood to seal your agreement, so I am setting your people free from that empty hole in the ground.
As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you, I have set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
As for you, because of the blood of the agreement with you I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant I have set free your prisoners from the pit wherein is no water.
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit in which [is] no water.
As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you [My chosen people, the covenant that was sealed with blood] I have freed your prisoners from the waterless pit.
As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
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.
And thou in blood of thi testament sentist out thi boundun men fro lake, in which is not water.
As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
When I made a sacred agreement with you, my people, we sealed it with blood. Now some of you are captives in waterless pits, but I will come to your rescue
As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit wherein is no water.
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.
"Also you, by the blood of your covenant, I release your prisoners from [the dungeon,] the cistern that has no water in it.
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant, I will send forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I send forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
As for thee also, by the blood of thy Couenant, I haue sent foorth thy prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water.
Because of the covenant I made with you, sealed with blood, I will free your prisoners from death in a waterless dungeon.
As for you, because of the blood of My agreement with you, I have set your people free from the deep hole that has no water.
As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
Thou also shalt be saued through the blood of thy couenant. I haue loosed thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
As for you also, by the blood of your covenant you have set free the captives out of the pit wherein is no water.
As for thee also, - By the blood of thy covenant, have I sent forth thy prisoners out of a pit, wherein is no water.
Thou also by the blood of thy testament hast sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water.
As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your captives free from the waterless pit.
Thou also [shalt be saued] through the blood of thy couenaunt: I haue loosed thy prisoners out of the pit wherin is no water.
And thou by the blood of thy covenant has sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit that has no water.
The Lord says, "Because of my covenant with you that was sealed by the blood of sacrifices, I will set your people free— free from the waterless pit of exile.
As for you,because of the blood of your covenant,I will release your prisonersfrom the waterless cistern.
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
Also you, by the blood of your covenant I have sent out your prisoners from the pit; no water is in it.
Also thou -- by the blood of thy covenant, I have sent thy prisoners out of the pit, There is no water in it.
Thou also thorow the bloude of thy couenaunt: shalt let thy presoners out of the pytte, wherin is no water.
"And you, because of my blood covenant with you, I'll release your prisoners from their hopeless cells. Come home, hope-filled prisoners! This very day I'm declaring a double bonus— everything you lost returned twice-over! Judah is now my weapon, the bow I'll pull, setting Ephraim as an arrow to the string. I'll wake up your sons, O Zion, to counter your sons, O Greece. From now on people are my swords."
Moreover, as for you, because of our covenant relationship secured with blood, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
"As for you also, Because of the blood of your covenant, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you, I have set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant,I have set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
As: Deuteronomy 5:31, 2 Samuel 13:13, 2 Chronicles 7:17, Daniel 2:29
by the blood of thy covenant: or, whose covenant is by blood, Exodus 24:8, Matthew 26:28, Mark 14:24, Luke 22:20, 1 Corinthians 11:25, Hebrews 9:10-26, Hebrews 10:29, Hebrews 13:20
I have: Psalms 69:33, Psalms 102:19-21, Psalms 107:10-16, Isaiah 42:7, Isaiah 42:22, Isaiah 49:9, Isaiah 51:14, Isaiah 58:12, Isaiah 61:1, Luke 4:18, Acts 26:17, Acts 26:18, Colossians 1:13, Colossians 1:14
out: Psalms 30:3, Psalms 40:2, Jeremiah 38:6, Luke 16:24, Revelation 20:3
Reciprocal: Genesis 8:16 - General Genesis 37:24 - the pit Exodus 12:29 - dungeon Leviticus 25:10 - proclaim Job 33:24 - Deliver Psalms 107:14 - brake Psalms 146:7 - looseth Isaiah 24:22 - shall they Isaiah 49:25 - Even Lamentations 3:34 - all Obadiah 1:21 - saviours Zechariah 10:8 - for John 8:36 - General Acts 16:26 - and every Romans 7:24 - who Ephesians 1:7 - whom Hebrews 9:20 - This 1 John 5:6 - blood
Cross-References
He drank of the wine, and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
Ham, the father of Kana`an, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
Shem and Yefet took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn't see their father's nakedness.
For this is [as] the waters of Noach to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noach shall no more go over the eretz, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
But the heavens that now are, and the eretz, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
Therefore since all these things are thus to be destroyed, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
As for thee also,.... These words are not spoken to Christ, for את, "thee", is of the feminine gender; but the congregation of Israel, as Kimchi observes; or the church of God: nor are they the words of Christ to her; he is the person before spoken of; but of God the Father, who, having given out prophecies concerning the coming of Christ, and the peaceableness and extensiveness of his kingdom, declares to the church the benefits that she and those that belonged to her should receive by the incarnation, sufferings, and death of Christ:
by the blood of thy covenant; not of the covenant of works, nor of circumcision, nor of that that was made at Sinai, as the Jewish writers interpret it; all which were a yoke of bondage; but of the covenant of grace, namely, the blood of Jesus, which is a considerable article in that covenant; that by which it is ratified and confirmed, and through which all the blessings of it come, as redemption, peace, pardon, justification, and admission into heaven: and this covenant is called the church's covenant, because it is made with her in Christ, her covenant Head, in whom she was considered; and it was made on her account, and she has an interest in it, and in all things contained therein. God is her covenant God and Father; Christ her surety, Mediator, Redeemer, and Saviour, and the covenant itself unto her; and all things in it, the blessings of grace and promises of good things, are hers: and though the covenant at Sinai is not the covenant here intended, that being a covenant which gendered to bondage, and under which men were held as convicted and condemned malefactors; and so cannot be that, the blood of which is the cause of a release from prison, and of bringing into a state of liberty; yet the allusion is unto it, which was a typical covenant; and the blood of the sacrifices then sprinkled on the people is called "the blood of the covenant",
Exodus 24:8. It was not unusual with the Heathens, at making covenants, to use blood, even human blood: it was a custom with them to draw it from each other, and drink it, at least lick and taste of it, as particularly with the Medes and Lydians k; and was reckoned by them the most sacred bond of covenants; and such covenants with the Carmeni and Scythians were accounted the chief covenants of friendship, and their mutual blood they used the greatest bond of concord l; and the surest pledge of keeping faith, and that it would abide m: but the blood of Christ shed is a far greater proof, as well as cement, of love, concord, and friendship; and a much firmer bond of the covenant of grace; and a surer pledge of the continuance of it, and of its being faithfully performed; and which, having the nature of a will or testament, becomes of force through the death of him the testator; see Daniel 9:27:
I have sent forth thy prisoners: that is, the church's prisoners; not prisoners to her, or in her; for the church of Christ is no prison; nor are those that have a name and a place in her prisoners; they walk at large, and walk at liberty; are fellow citizens with the saints; are Christ's freemen, and are possessed of many privileges and immunities: but these design such persons as are in a secret relation to her, and yet, being in a state of nature, are prisoners; and so are such as are not members of any visible church; nor as yet converted persons and believers in Christ, who have an open relation to the invisible church; but they are such who secretly belong to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, written in heaven, whose names are in the Lamb's book of life; or are chosen in Christ, and also redeemed by his blood: but, being as yet in a state of unregeneracy, are prisoners to sin; are under the power, dominion, and guilt of it; and, being transgressors of the law, are arraigned by it as guilty persons; are convicted and condemned, and shut up in it, and held under it; and are also the captives of Satan, being led as such by him, at his will; and thus they are prisoners, though there is a secret connection between the church and them: and sooner or later, by virtue of the blood of that covenant, which she and they have an interest in, they are brought
out of the pit wherein [is] no water; which is expressive of the state and condition men are in by sin, and while in unregeneracy; they are in mire and clay, in a most filthy and famishing condition, in a very wretched and uncomfortable one; as in a dark and lonesome dungeon, and where no refreshment can be had; where there are no true peace, joy, and comfort. The allusion is to the custom of the eastern countries, and still continues, who, in the nighttime, put their slaves into a well or pit, and there shut them up till the morning, when they are let out for business: now, from this state of captivity and bondage to sin, Satan, and the law, and from all the miseries of such a state, are the Lord's people, and who belong to Zion, the general assembly and church of the first born, delivered by virtue of the blood of Christ, shed for the redemption of them; in consequence of which it is said to these prisoners of sin, Satan, and the law, go forth; these are made sensible of their wretched condition, and are called and drawn out of it, and delivered from it, and brought into a state of liberty. Ben Melech interprets this pit of the captivity of the Jews.
k Herodot. Clio, sive l. 1. c. 74. l Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 5. c. 3. m Mela de situ Orbis, l. 2. c. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
As for thee also - The prophet turns from the deliverance of the whole world to the former people, the sorrows which they should have in the way, and the protection which God would bestow upon them for the sake of Him, who, according to the flesh, was to be born of them. “Thou too;” he had spoken of the glories of the Church, such as her king, when He should come, should extend it, embracing earth’s remotest bounds: he turns to her, Israel after the flesh, and assures her of the continued protection of God, even in her lowest estate. The deliverance under the Maccabees was, as those under the judges had been, an image of the salvation of Christ and a preparation for it. They were martyrs for the One God and for the faith in the Resurrection, and, whether by doing or by suffering, preserved the sacred line, until Christ should come.
By the blood of thy covenant - Osorius: “Not by the blood of those victims of old, but by the blood of thy covenant, wilt thou be united to the empire of Christ, and so obtain salvation. As the Lord Himself says, This is the blood of covenant, which is shed for you.” “The gifts and calling of God are without repentance” Romans 11:29. That symbolic blood, by which, fore-signifying the New Covenant, He made them His own people, “Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words,” Exodus 24:8, endured still, amid all their unfaithfulness and breaches of it. By virtue of it God would send forth her imprisoned ones “out of the” deep, dry “pit,” “the dungeon” wherein they could be kept securely, because life was not threatened (as in Genesis 37:24). Out of any depth of hopeless misery, in which they seemed to be shut up, God would deliver them; as David says, “He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings” Psalms 40:2; and Jeremiah, “They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. I called upon Thy Name, O Lord; out of the low dungeon Thou hast heard my voice” Lamentations 3:53, Lamentations 3:55-56. Augustine, de Civ. Dei. xviii. 35. 3): “The dry and barren depth of human misery, where are no streams of righteousness, but the mire of iniquity.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Zechariah 9:11. As for thee also (Jerusalem) by the blood of thy covenant — The covenant made with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the Israelites in general, and ratified by the blood of many victims; until the time should come in which the Messiah should shed his blood, as typified by the ancient sacrifices.
I have sent forth thy prisoners — Those who were under the arrest of God's judgments; the human race, fast bound in sin and misery, and who by the pitifulness of his tender mercy were loosed, he dying in their stead.
