Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Turn back to the fortress, ye captives of hope: also announcing this day I will turn back double to thee;
New American Standard Bible
This very day I am declaring that I will restore
King James Version
Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
Holman Bible
you prisoners who have hope;
today I declare that I will restore double to you.
International Standard Version
Return to your fortress, you prisoners who have hope. Even today I am telling you: In return I will repay you double.
A Conservative Version
Turn you back to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will render double to thee.
American Standard Version
Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee.
Amplified
Return to the stronghold [of security and prosperity], O prisoners who have the hope;
Even today I am declaring that I will restore double [your former prosperity] to you [as firstborn among nations].
Bible in Basic English
And they will come back to you, O daughter of Zion, as prisoners of hope: today I say to you that I will give you back twice as much;
Darby Translation
Turn again to the stronghold, prisoners of hope! even to-day do I declare I will render double unto thee.
King James 2000
Turn you to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope: even today do I declare that I will restore double unto you;
Lexham Expanded Bible
Return to [the] fortress, O prisoners of hope; today [I am] declaring [that] I will repay you double.
Modern King James verseion
Turn to the stronghold, prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will return to you double.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Turn you now to the stronghold, ye that be in prison, and long sore to be delivered: And this day I bring the word, that I will reward thee double again.
NET Bible
Return to the stronghold, you prisoners, with hope; today I declare that I will return double what was taken from you.
New Heart English Bible
Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
The Emphasized Bible
Return to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope, - Even to-day, do I declare - Double, will I return to thee!
Webster
Turn ye to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render double to thee;
World English Bible
Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
Youngs Literal Translation
Turn back to a fenced place, Ye prisoners of the hope, Even to-day a second announcer I restore to thee.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Zechariah 9:12
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Context Readings
The Coming Of Zion's King
11 Also thou by the blood of thy covenant I sent forth thy bound ones from the pit no water in it 12 Turn back to the fortress, ye captives of hope: also announcing this day I will turn back double to thee; 13 For I tread out Judah to me, I filled the bow with Ephraim, and I raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and I set thee as the sword of the strong one.
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Cross References
Isaiah 61:7
For your shame the second place; and they shall rejoice in reproach, their portion: for this in their land they shall inherit the second place; eternal joy shall be to them.
Jeremiah 31:17
And there is hope to thy latter state, says Jehovah, and thy sons turned back to their bound.
Hebrews 6:18
That by two unalterable deeds, in which it is impossible for God to deceive we might have a strong consolation, taking refuge in holding firmly the hope set before:
Job 42:10
And Jehovah turned back the captivity of Job in his praying for his friends: and Jehovah added all which was to Job, to the double.
Isaiah 38:18
For not hades shall praise thee, death celebrate: they going down to the pit shall not hope for thy truth.
Isaiah 40:2
Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her that her war was filled up, her iniquity was paid off: that she received from the hand of Jehovah double for all her sins.
Isaiah 49:9
To say to the bound, Go forth; to those in darkness, Uncover yourselves. They shall feed upon the ways, and in all naked hills their pastures.
Isaiah 52:2
Shake thyself from dust: arise, sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bonds of thy neck, thou captive daughter of Zion.
Jeremiah 31:6
For there is a day they watching upon mount Ephraim called, Arise ye, and we will go up to Zion to Jehovah our God.
Jeremiah 50:4-5
In those days and in that time, says Jehovah, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together, going, and they wept: they shall go and shall seek Jehovah their God.
Jeremiah 50:28
The voice of those fleeing and escaping out of the land of Babel, to announce in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance of his temple.
Jeremiah 51:10
Jehovah brought forth our justice: come ye, and we will recount in Zion the work of Jehovah our God.
Lamentations 3:21-22
I will turn this back to my heart; for this I shall hope.
Ezekiel 37:11
And he will say to me, Son of man, these bones all the house of Israel: behold them saying, Our bones were dried up, and our hope perished, and we were cut off to us.
Hosea 2:15
And I gave to her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she was humbled there as the days of her youth and as the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt
Joel 3:16
And Jehovah shall cry out from Zion, and from Jerusalem he shall give his voice; and the heavens and the earth trembled: and Jehovah the refuge to his people, and the fortress to the sons of Israel.
Micah 4:8
And thou, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, even to thee shall it come, and the first dominion: came the kingdom to the daughter of Jerusalem.
Nahum 1:7
Jehovah is good for a fortress in the day of straits; and he knew those trusting in him.