Parallel Verses
Webster
Turn ye to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render 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.
Julia Smith Translation
Turn back to the fortress, ye captives of hope: also announcing this day I will turn back double to 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!
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 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit in which is no water. 12 Turn ye to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render double to thee; 13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
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Cross References
Isaiah 61:7
For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be to them.
Jeremiah 31:17
And there is hope in thy end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
Hebrews 6:18
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
Job 42:10
And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Isaiah 38:18
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Isaiah 40:2
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received from the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Isaiah 49:9
That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
Isaiah 52:2
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Jeremiah 31:6
For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion to the LORD our God.
Jeremiah 50:4-5
In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping; they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
Jeremiah 50:28
The voice of them that flee and escape from 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 hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
Lamentations 3:21-22
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
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, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Hosea 2:15
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came from the land of Egypt.
Joel 3:16
The LORD also will roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake; but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
Micah 4:8
And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, to thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come, to the daughter of Jerusalem.
Nahum 1:7
The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.