Zechariah 9:12

Modern English Version

Return to your stronghold, prisoners who now have hope. Today I declare that I will return to you a double portion.

Cross References

Job 42:10

And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Isaiah 24:22

They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the dungeon, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days they shall be punished.

Isaiah 38:18

For Sheol cannot thank You, death cannot praise You; those who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

Isaiah 40:2

Speak kindly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare has ended, that her iniquity has been pardoned, that she has received of the hand of the Lord double for all her sins.

Isaiah 49:9

saying to the prisoners, “Go forth,” to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves.” They shall feed along the paths, and their pastures shall be in all desolate heights;

Isaiah 52:2

Shake yourself from the dust; arise, O captive Jerusalem. Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

Isaiah 61:7

Instead of your shame you shall have double honor, and instead of humiliation they shall rejoice over their portion. Therefore, in their land they shall possess a double portion; everlasting joy shall be theirs.

Jeremiah 14:8

O the Hope of Israel, its Savior in time of trouble, why should You be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to pitch his tent for a night?

Jeremiah 16:19

O  Lord, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to You from the remote parts of the earth, and will say: Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.

Jeremiah 17:13

O  Lord, the Hope of Israel, all who forsake You will be ashamed. “Those who forsake Me will be written in the dust, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.”

Jeremiah 31:17

There is hope for your future, says the Lord, that your children will come back to their own border.

Jeremiah 31:6

For there will be a day when the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim will proclaim, “Arise, and let us go up to Zion, to the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 50:28

There is the sound of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of His temple.

Jeremiah 51:10

The Lord has brought forth our righteousness. Come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God.

Ezekiel 37:11

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are cut off completely.’

Hosea 2:15

From there, I will give her vineyards to her, and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope. She will respond there as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Joel 3:16

The Lord roars from Zion, and sounds His voice from Jerusalem, and heaven and earth quake. But the Lord is a refuge for His people, and a stronghold for the Israelites.

Micah 4:8

As for you, watchtower of the flock, citadel of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, the former dominion will come, kingship for the daughter of Jerusalem.

Nahum 1:7

The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; and He knows those who take refuge in Him.

Hebrews 6:18

So that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

Hebrews 6:19

We have this hope as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, which enters the inner sanctuary behind the veil.