Zechariah 3:8

Contemporary English Version 1995

Listen carefully, High Priest Joshua and all of you other priests. You are a sign of things to come, because I am going to bring my servant, the Chosen King.

Cross References

Jeremiah 23:5

Someday I will appoint an honest king from the family of David, a king who will be wise and rule with justice.

Isaiah 11:1

Like a branch that sprouts from a stump, someone from David's family will someday be king.

Zechariah 6:12

Tell him that I, the Lord All-Powerful, say, “Someone will reach out from here like a branch and build a temple for me. I will name him ‘Branch,’ and he will rule with royal honors. A priest will stand beside his throne, and the two of them will be good friends.

Jeremiah 33:15

I promise that the time will come when I will appoint a king from the family of David, a king who will be honest and rule with justice.

Isaiah 53:2

Like a young plant or a root that sprouts in dry ground, the servant grew up obeying the Lord. He wasn't some handsome king. Nothing about the way he looked made him attractive to us.

Isaiah 42:1

Here is my servant! I have made him strong. He is my chosen one; I am pleased with him. I have given him my Spirit, and he will bring justice to the nations.

Isaiah 20:3

for three years. Then the Lord said: What Isaiah has done is a warning to Egypt and Ethiopia.

Isaiah 4:2

The time is coming when the Lord will make his land fruitful and glorious again, and the people of Israel who survive will take great pride in what the land produces.

Ezekiel 12:11

I have done these things to show them what will happen when they are taken away as prisoners.

Isaiah 53:11

By suffering, the servant will learn the true meaning of obeying the Lord. Although he is innocent, he will take the punishment for the sins of others, so that many of them will no longer be guilty.

Isaiah 52:13

The Lord says: My servant will succeed! He will be given great praise and the highest honors.

Isaiah 49:5

Even before I was born, the Lord God chose me to serve him and to lead back the people of Israel. So the Lord has honored me and made me strong.

Isaiah 8:18

My children and I are warning signs to Israel from the Lord All-Powerful, who lives on Mount Zion.

Luke 1:78

God's love and kindness will shine upon us like the sun that rises in the sky.

Ezekiel 37:24

Their king will always come from the family of my servant King David and will care for them like a shepherd. The people of Israel will faithfully obey my laws. They and their descendants will live in the land I gave my servant Jacob, just as their ancestors did.

Ezekiel 34:29

I will make their fields produce large amounts of crops, so they will never again go hungry or be laughed at by foreigners.

Ezekiel 24:24

I am a warning sign—everything I have done, you will also do. And then you will know the Lord God has made these things happen.

Isaiah 49:3

The Lord said to me, “Israel, you are my servant; and because of you I will be highly honored.”

Psalm 71:7

Many people think of me as something evil. But you are my mighty protector,

Ezekiel 12:6

Lift the bag to your shoulders, and with your face covered, take it into the darkness, so that you cannot see the land you are leaving. All this will be a warning for the people of Israel.