Zechariah 9:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And I will put my forces in position round my house, so that there may be no coming and going: and no cruel master will again go through them: for now I have seen his trouble.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְחָנִ֨יתִי לְבֵיתִ֤י מִצָּבָה֙ מֵעֹבֵ֣ר וּמִשָּׁ֔ב וְלֹֽא־יַעֲבֹ֧ר עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם ע֖וֹד נֹגֵ֑שׂ כִּ֥י עַתָּ֖ה רָאִ֥יתִי בְעֵינָֽי׃ ס

Transliteration

wə-ḥānîṯî to-bêṯî miṣṣāḇāh from-ʿōḇēr û-from-šāḇ wə-not-yaʿăḇōr upon-them again nōḡēś for now rāʾîṯî with-ʿênāy.

Grammar Details

• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *ḥānîṯî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular - I will encamp/pitch camp
• *lə*: preposition - for/to
• *bêṯî*: noun, masculine, singular + 1st person singular suffix - my house
• *miṣṣāḇāh*: preposition + noun, feminine, singular - as a guard/garrison
• *mē*: preposition - from/against
• *ʿōḇēr*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - one passing through
• *û*: conjunction - and
• *mi*: preposition - from
• *šāḇ*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - one returning
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *yaʿăḇōr*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - will pass over
• *ʿălêhem*: preposition + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - upon them
• *ʿôḏ*: adverb - again/anymore
• *nōḡēś*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - oppressor/taskmaster
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *ʿattāh*: adverb - now
• *rāʾîṯî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have seen
• *bə*: preposition - with
• *ʿênāy*: noun, feminine, dual + 1st person singular suffix - my eyes

Word Meanings

• *ḥānîṯî*: I will encamp/I will pitch camp/I will protect
• *miṣṣāḇāh*: as a guard/as a garrison/as a defense
• *ʿōḇēr*: one passing through/one coming against/invader
• *šāḇ*: one returning/one coming back
• *nōḡēś*: oppressor/taskmaster/tyrant
• *rāʾîṯî*: I have seen/I have watched/I have observed

Referenced Verses

• Isa 54:14 : 14 All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you.
• Isa 52:1 : 1 Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.
• Isa 60:18 : 18 Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise.
• Jer 31:12 : 12 So they will come with songs on the high places, flowing together to the good things of the Lord, to the grain and the wine and the oil, to the young ones of the flock and of the herd: their souls will be like a watered garden, and they will have no more sorrow.
• Jer 46:2 : 2 Of Egypt: about the army of Pharaoh-neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah.
• Jer 46:13 : 13 The word which the Lord said to Jeremiah the prophet, of how Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, would come and make war on the land of Egypt.
• Ezek 28:24-25 : 24 And there will no longer be a plant with sharp points wounding the children of Israel, or a thorn troubling them among any who are round about them, who put shame on them; and they will be certain that I am the Lord. 25 This is what the Lord has said: When I have got together the children of Israel from the peoples among whom they are wandering, and have been made holy among them before the eyes of the nations, then they will have rest in the land which is theirs, which I gave to my servant Jacob
• Ezek 39:29 : 29 And my face will no longer be covered from them: for I have sent the out-flowing of my spirit on the children of Israel, says the Lord.
• Dan 11:6-7 : 6 And at the end of years they will be joined together; and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she will not keep the strength of her arm; and his offspring will not keep their place; but she will be uprooted, with those who were the cause of her coming, and her son, and he who took her in those times. 7 But out of a branch from her roots one will come up to take his place, who will come against the army, forcing his way into the strong place of the king of the north, and he will take them in hand and overcome them:
• Dan 11:10-16 : 10 And his son will make war, and will get together an army of great forces, and he will make an attack on him, overflowing and going past: and he will again take the war even to his strong place. 11 And the king of the south will be moved with wrath, and will come out and make war on him, on this same king of the north: and he will get together a great army, but the army will be given into his hand. 12 And the army will be taken away, and his heart will be uplifted: he will be the cause of the downfall of tens of thousands, but he will not be strong. 13 And again the king of the north will get together an army greater than the first; and he will make an attack on him at the end of years, with a great army and much wealth. 14 In those times, a number will take up arms against the king of the south: and the children of the violent among your people will be lifting themselves up to make the vision come true; but it will be their downfall. 15 So the king of the north will come, and put up earthworks and take a well-armed town: and the forces of the king of the south will make an attempt to keep their position, even the best of his army, but they will not have strength to do so. 16 And he who comes against him will do his pleasure, and no one will be able to keep his place before him: he will take up his position in the beautiful land and in his hand there will be destruction.
• Dan 11:27-29 : 27 And as for these two kings, their hearts will be fixed on doing evil and they will say false words at one table; but it will come to nothing: for the end will be at the time fixed. 28 And he will go back to his land with great wealth; and his heart will be against the holy agreement; and he will do his pleasure and go back to his land. 29 At the time fixed he will come back and come into the south; but in the later time it will not be as it was before.
• Dan 11:40-45 : 40 And at the time of the end, the king of the south will make an attack on him: and the king of the north will come against him like a storm-wind, with war-carriages and horsemen and numbers of ships; and he will go through many lands like overflowing waters. 41 And he will come into the beautiful land, and tens of thousands will be overcome: but these will be kept from falling into his hands: Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon. 42 And his hand will be stretched out on the countries: and the land of the south will not be safe from him. 43 But he will have power over the stores of gold and silver, and over all the valued things of the south: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians will be at his steps. 44 But he will be troubled by news from the east and from the north; and he will go out in great wrath, to send destruction on, and put an end to, great numbers. 45 He will put the tents of his great house between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain: but he will come to his end with no helper.
• Joel 3:16-17 : 16 Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord. 17 Let the nations be awake, and come to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there I will be seated as judge of all the nations round about.
• Amos 9:15 : 15 And I will have them planted in their land, and never again will they be uprooted from their land which I have given them, says the Lord your God.
• Zech 2:1-9 : 1 And lifting up my eyes I saw four horns. 2 And I said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these? And he said to me, These are the horns which have sent Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem in flight. 3 And the Lord gave me a vision of four metal-workers. 4 Then I said, What have these come to do? And he said, These are the horns which sent Judah in flight, and kept him from lifting up his head: but these men have come to send fear on them and to put down the nations who are lifting up their horns against the land of Judah to send it in flight. 5 And lifting up my eyes, I saw a man with a measuring-line in his hand. 6 And I said to him, Where are you going? And he said to me, To take the measure of Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is. 7 And the angel who was talking to me went out, and another angel went out, and, meeting him, 8 Said to him, Go quickly and say to this young man, Jerusalem will be an unwalled town, because of the great number of men and cattle in her. 9 For I, says the Lord, will be a wall of fire round about her, and I will be the glory inside her. 10 Ho, ho! go in flight from the land of the north, says the Lord: for I have sent you far and wide to the four winds of heaven, says the Lord. 11 Ho! Zion, go in flight from danger, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon. 12 For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In the way of glory he has sent me to the nations which have taken your goods: for anyone touching you is touching what is most dear to him. 13 For at the shaking of my hand over them, their goods will be taken by those who were their servants: and you will see that the Lord of armies has sent me.
• Zech 12:8 : 8 In that day the Lord will be a cover over the people of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them in that day will be as strong as David, and the family of David will be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.
• Zech 14:11 : 11 And there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will be living without fear of danger.
• Acts 7:34 : 34 Truly, I have seen the sorrows of my people in Egypt, and their cries have come to my ears, and I have come down to make them free: and now, come, I will send you to Egypt.
• Rev 20:1-3 : 1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the great deep and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he took the dragon, the old snake, which is the Evil One and Satan, and put chains on him for a thousand years, 3 And put him into the great deep, and it was shut and locked over him, so that he might put the nations in error no longer, till the thousand years were ended: after this he will be let loose for a little time.
• Rev 20:9 : 9 And they went up over the face of the earth, and made a circle about the tents of the saints, and the well loved town: and fire came down out of heaven for their destruction.
• Isa 52:12 : 12 For you will not go out suddenly, and you will not go in flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will come after you to keep you.
• Gen 32:1-2 : 1 And on his way Jacob came face to face with the angels of God. 2 And when he saw them he said, This is the army of God: so he gave that place the name of Mahanaim.
• Exod 3:7 : 7 And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;
• Exod 3:9 : 9 For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.
• 2 Sam 16:12 : 12 It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.
• 2 Kgs 23:29 : 29 In his days, Pharaoh-necoh, king of Egypt, sent his armies against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went out against him; and he put him to death at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
• 2 Kgs 24:1 : 1 In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years; then he took up arms against him.
• Ps 34:7 : 7 The angel of the Lord is ever watching over those who have fear of him, to keep them safe.
• Ps 46:1-5 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song.> God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble. 2 For this cause we will have no fear, even though the earth is changed, and though the mountains are moved in the heart of the sea; 3 Though its waters are sounding and troubled, and though the mountains are shaking with their violent motion. (Selah.) 4 There is a river whose streams make glad the resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High. 5 God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.
• Ps 72:4 : 4 May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.
• Ps 125:1-2 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever. 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from this time and for ever.
• Isa 4:5 : 5 And over every living-place on Mount Zion, all over all her meetings, the Lord will make a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all, the glory of the Lord will be a cover and a tent;
• Isa 26:1 : 1 In that day will this song be made in the land of Judah: We have a strong town; he will make salvation our walls and towers.
• Isa 31:5 : 5 Like birds with outstretched wings, so will the Lord of armies be a cover to Jerusalem; he will be a cover and salvation for it, going over it he will keep it from danger.
• Isa 33:20-22 : 20 Let your eyes be resting on Zion, the town of our holy feasts: you will see Jerusalem, a quiet resting-place, a tent which will not be moved, whose tent-pins will never be pulled up, and whose cords will never be broken. 21 But there the Lord will be with us in his glory, ... wide rivers and streams; where no boat will go with blades, and no fair ship will be sailing. 22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our law-giver, the Lord is our king; he will be our saviour.