Zechariah 10:6

10:6 “I (says the Lord) will strengthen the kingdom ¹  of Judah and deliver the people of Joseph ²  and will bring them back ³  because of my compassion for them. They will be as though I had never rejected them, for I am the Lord their God and therefore I will hear them.

Zechariah 10:9

10:9 Though I scatter ⁴  them among the nations, they will remember in far-off places – they and their children will sprout forth and return.

¹ tn Heb “the house.”

² tn Or “the kingdom of Israel”; Heb “the house of Joseph.”

³ tc The anomalous MT reading וְחוֹשְׁבוֹתִים (vÿkhoshÿvotim) should probably be וַהֲשִׁי בוֹתִם (vahashi votim), the Hiphil perfect consecutive of שׁוּב (shuv), “return” (cf. Jer 12:15).

⁴ tn Or “sow” (so KJV, ASV). The imagery is taken from the sowing of seed by hand.