Zechariah 10:9

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Though I sow them among the nations,they will remember me in the distant lands;they and their children will live and return.

Hebrew Names Version
I will sow them among the peoples; And they will remember me in far countries; And they will live with their children, and will return.

King James Version (1611)
And I will sow them among the people, and they shall remember me in farre countries, and they shall liue with their children, and turne againe.

King James Version
And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.

English Standard Version
Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and return.

New American Standard Bible
"When I scatter them among the peoples, They will remember Me in distant countries, And they with their children will live and come back.

New Century Version
I have scattered them among the nations, but in those faraway places, they will remember me. They and their children will live and return.

Amplified Bible
"When I scatter them among the nations, They will remember Me in far countries, And with their children they will live and come back [to Me and the land I gave them].

Geneva Bible (1587)
And I will sowe them among the people, and they shall remember me in farre countreys: and they shall liue with their children and turne againe.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"When I scatter them among the peoples, They will remember Me in far countries, And they with their children will live and come back.

Legacy Standard Bible
And I will sow them among the peoples,And they will remember Me in far countries,And they with their children will live and turn back.

Berean Standard Bible
Though I sow them among the nations, they will remember Me in distant lands; they and their children will live and return.

Contemporary English Version
Although I scattered my people in distant countries, they won't forget me. Once their children are raised, they will return—

Complete Jewish Bible
and I will sow them among the peoples. In distant lands they will remember me; they will rear their children and then return.

Darby Translation
And I will sow them among the peoples, and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children and return.

Easy-to-Read Version
Yes, I have been scattering my people throughout the nations. But in those faraway places, they will remember me. They and their children will survive, and they will come back.

George Lamsa Translation
And I will scatter them among the nations, yet they shall praise me in far countries; and they shall rear their children and return again.

Good News Translation
Though I have scattered them among the nations, yet in far-off places they will remember me. They and their children will survive and return home together.

Lexham English Bible
Though I sow them among the nations, in the distant places they will remember me, and they will stay alive with their children, and they will return.

Literal Translation
And I will sow them among the peoples, and they shall remember Me in far countries, and they shall live with their sons and return.

American Standard Version
And I will sow them among the peoples; and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and shall return.

Bible in Basic English
Though I had them planted among the peoples, they will keep me in mind in far countries: and they will take care of their children and will come back.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I will sow them among the peoples, and they shall remember Me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and shall return.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyll sowe them among the people, that they may thincke vpon me in farre countryes, they shal liue with their children, and turne againe.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will sow them among the people; and they that are afar off shall remember me: they shall nourish their children, and they shall return.

English Revised Version
And I will sow them among the peoples; and they shall remember me in far countries: and they shall live with their children, and shall return.

World English Bible
I will sow them among the peoples; And they will remember me in far countries; And they will live with their children, and will return.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal sowe hem in puplis, and fro fer thei schulen bithenke of me; and thei schulen lyue with her sones, and schulen turne ayen.

Update Bible Version
And I will sow them among the peoples; and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall raise their sons, and shall return.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in remote countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.

New English Translation
Though I scatter them among the nations, they will remember in far-off places—they and their children will sprout forth and return.

New King James Version
"I will sow them among the peoples, And they shall remember Me in far countries; They shall live, together with their children, And they shall return.

New Living Translation
Though I have scattered them like seeds among the nations, they will still remember me in distant lands. They and their children will survive and return again to Israel.

New Life Bible
Even when I send them everywhere among the nations, they will remember Me in far countries. They and their children will live and return.

New Revised Standard
Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and they shall rear their children and return.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Though I scatter them among the peoples, yet, in places far away, shall they remember me, - and they shall live with their children, and shall return;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will sow them among peoples: and from afar they shall remember me: and they shall live with their children, and shall return.

Revised Standard Version
Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and return.

Young's Literal Translation
And I sow them among peoples, And in far-off places they remember Me, And they have lived with their sons, And they have turned back.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wil sowe the amonge the people, yt they maye thinke vpo me in farre countrees: they shal lyue wt their childre, and turne agayne.

Contextual Overview

⁵God's Work of Rebuilding Pray to God for rain—it's time for the spring rain— to God , the rainmaker, Spring thunderstorm maker, maker of grain and barley. "Store-bought gods babble gibberish. Religious experts spout rubbish. They pontificate hot air. Their prescriptions are nothing but smoke. And so the people wander like lost sheep, poor lost sheep without a shepherd. I'm furious with the so-called shepherds. They're worse than billy goats, and I'll treat them like goats." God -of-the-Angel-Armies will step in and take care of his flock, the people of Judah. He'll revive their spirits, make them proud to be on God's side. God will use them in his work of rebuilding, use them as foundations and pillars, Use them as tools and instruments, use them to oversee his work. They'll be a workforce to be proud of, working as one, their heads held high, striding through swamps and mud, Courageous and vigorous because God is with them, undeterred by the world's thugs. ⁶"I'll put muscle in the people of Judah; I'll save the people of Joseph. I know their pain and will make them good as new. They'll get a fresh start, as if nothing had ever happened. And why? Because I am their very own God , I'll do what needs to be done for them. The people of Ephraim will be famous, their lives brimming with joy. Their children will get in on it, too— oh, let them feel blessed by God ! I'll whistle and they'll all come running. I've set them free—oh, how they'll flourish! Even though I scattered them to the far corners of earth, they'll remember me in the faraway places. They'll keep the story alive in their children, and they will come back. I'll bring them back from the Egyptian west and round them up from the Assyrian east. I'll bring them back to sweet Gilead, back to leafy Lebanon. Every square foot of land will be marked by homecoming. They'll sail through troubled seas, brush aside brash ocean waves. Roaring rivers will turn to a trickle. Gaudy Assyria will be stripped bare, bully Egypt exposed as a fraud. But my people—oh, I'll make them strong, God -strong! and they'll live my way." God says so!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sow: Esther 8:17, Jeremiah 31:27, Daniel 3:1 - Daniel 6:28, Hosea 2:23, Amos 9:9, Micah 5:7, Acts 8:1, Acts 8:4, Acts 11:19-21, Acts 13:1-38, Acts 14:1 - Acts 21:16, Romans 11:11-15

remember: Deuteronomy 30:1-4, 1 Kings 8:47, 1 Kings 8:48, Nehemiah 1:9, Jeremiah 51:50, Ezekiel 6:9

live: Isaiah 65:9, Isaiah 65:23, Acts 2:38, Acts 2:39, Acts 3:25, Acts 3:26, Acts 13:32, Acts 13:33, Romans 11:16, Romans 11:17, Romans 11:24

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:39 - shall pine Isaiah 24:15 - isles Isaiah 27:6 - General Isaiah 52:6 - my people Jeremiah 31:21 - O Ezekiel 36:37 - I will yet Matthew 13:38 - the good 2 Corinthians 5:15 - that they

Cross-References

Genesis 6:4
This was back in the days (and also later) when there were giants in the land. The giants came from the union of the sons of God and the daughters of men. These were the mighty men of ancient lore, the famous ones.

Genesis 6:11
As far as God was concerned, the Earth had become a sewer; there was violence everywhere. God took one look and saw how bad it was, everyone corrupt and corrupting—life itself corrupt to the core.

Genesis 13:13
The people of Sodom were evil—flagrant sinners against God .

Genesis 25:27
The boys grew up. Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman. Jacob was a quiet man preferring life indoors among the tents. Isaac loved Esau because he loved his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Genesis 27:30
And then right after Isaac had blessed Jacob and Jacob had left, Esau showed up from the hunt. He also had prepared a hearty meal. He came to his father and said, "Let my father get up and eat of his son's game, that he may give me his personal blessing."

2 Chronicles 28:22
But King Ahaz didn't learn his lesson—at the very time that everyone was turning against him, he continued to be against God ! He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus. He had just been defeated by Damascus; he thought, "If I worship the gods who helped Damascus, those gods just might help me, too." But things only went from bad to worse: first Ahaz in ruins and then the country. He cleaned out The Temple of God of everything useful and valuable, boarded up the doors of The Temple, and then went out and set up pagan shrines for his own use all over Jerusalem. And not only in Jerusalem, but all over Judah—neighborhood shrines for worshiping any and every god on sale. And was God ever angry!

Jeremiah 16:16
"Now, watch for what comes next: I'm going to assemble a bunch of fishermen." God 's Decree! "They'll go fishing for my people and pull them in for judgment. Then I'll send out a party of hunters, and they'll hunt them out in all the mountains, hills, and caves. I'm watching their every move. I haven't lost track of a single one of them, neither them nor their sins.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will sow them among the people, The people of God in the Gentile world: this is to be understood of the conversion of the Jews, when they will become the good seed that hear the word, and understand it, and bring forth fruit; and of their being known, acknowledged, and reckoned among the people of God, who now are not; and of their being planted in Gospel churches, where the word is truly preached; the ordinances are faithfully administered; the Lord grants his presence, and saints have communion one with another; to be in such a fruitful soil, and in such sacred enclosures, fenced by the power and grace of God, is a great happiness:

and they shall remember me in far countries; they shall call to mind what their ancestors did to Christ, and mourn on account of a pierced Saviour; they shall remember him in the ordinance of the supper, being in a Gospel church state; they shall remember what he did and suffered for them, and his love to them in all, and that with faith, affection, and thankfulness:

and they shall live with their children; a very happy, comfortable, temporal life; and they shall live a spiritual life; a life of faith on Christ; of communion with him, and of holiness from him, and to his glory: and their children also shall live the same life, being regenerated and quickened by the same grace; these are the church's children:

and turn again; that is, when they shall turn again, either to the Lord, shall be converted unto him; or return to their own land.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I will sow them among the nations - Such had been the prophecy of Hosea; “I will sow her unto Me in the earth,” as the prelude of spiritual mercies, “and I will have mercy on her that had not obtained mercy, and I will say to not-my-people, Thou art My people, and they shall say, my God” . Hosea’s saying, “I will sow her in the earth” that is, the whole earth and that “to Me,” corresponds to, and explains Zechariah’s brief saying, “I will sow them among the nations.” The sowing, which was future to Hosea, had begun; but the purpose of the sowing, the harvest, was wholly to come; when it should be seen, that they were indeed sown by God, that “great” should “be the day of Jezreel” (Hosea 1:11. See vol. i. p. 25). And Jeremiah said, “Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah, with the seed of man and with the seed of beast” Jeremiah 31:27. The word is used of sowing to multiply, never of mere scattering .

And they shall remember Me in far countries - So Ezekiel had said, “And they that escape of you shall remember Me among the nations, whither they shall be carried captive - and they shall loath themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations, and they shall know that I am the Lord” Ezekiel 6:9.

And shall live - As Ezekiel again says, “Ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and bring you up out of your graves, O My people, and shall put My Spirit in you, and ye shall live” Ezekiel 37:13-14. “With their children.” A continuous gift, as Ezekiel, “they and their children, and their children’s children forever: and My servant David shall be their prince forever.” Ezekiel 37:25.

And turn again - To God, being converted, as Jeremiah had been bidden to exhort them; “Go and proclaim these words toward the north” Jeremiah 3:12, the cities of the Medes whither they were carried captive, “and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, and I will not cause Mine anger to fall upon you;” “Turn, O backsliding children - and I with take you, one of a city, and two of a family, and will bring you to Zion, and I will give you pastors according to Mine heart” Jeremiah 3:14-15. “Return, ye backsliding children; I will heal your backslidings.” And they answer, “Behold, we come unto Thee; for Thou art the Lord our God” Jeremiah 3:22. So Isaiah had said, “A remnant shall return, the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God” . Dionysius: “They shall return by recollection of mind and adunation and simplification of the affections toward God so as ultimately to intend that one thing, which alone is necessary.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 10:9. I will sow them among the people — Wherever they have been dispersed, my voice in the preaching of the Gospel shall reach them. And they shall remember me, and they and their children shall turn again to the Lord, through Messiah their King.