salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us,
Parallel translations
- WEB salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us;
- KJV That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
- NKJV That we should be saved from our enemies And from the hand of all who hate us,
- NASB Salvation from our enemies, And from the hand of all who hate us;
- NLT Now we will be saved from our enemies and from all who hate us.
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Quick answer
Zechariah praises God for the promised salvation that rescues His people from their enemies. It matters because God keeps His covenant promises to deliver.
Overview
Continuing his Spirit-filled prophecy at John's birth, Zechariah celebrates the deliverance God is bringing through the coming Messiah. While Israel longed for rescue from political enemies, the deeper deliverance Christ brings is from sin, death, and Satan. God's saving power is not abstract but concrete and faithful to His ancient promises.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- Ps 106:10He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
- Deut 33:29Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”
- Zeph 3:15–20The LORD has taken away your punishment; He has turned back your enemy. Israel’s King, the LORD, is among you; no longer will you fear any harm.
- Jer 23:6In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
- Jer 32:37I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.
- Ezek 34:28They will no longer be prey for the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not consume them. They will dwell securely, and no one will frighten them.
- Luke 1:74deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,
- Isa 54:7–17“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.
- Ezek 34:25I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.
- Jer 30:9–11Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
- Isa 14:1–3For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
- 1 Jn 3:8The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.
- Zech 9:9–10Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
- Ezek 28:26And there they will dwell securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will dwell securely when I execute judgments against all those around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.’”
- Isa 44:24–26Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,
- Ps 106:47Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.
- Ezek 38:8After a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and all now dwell securely.
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Luke shows Jesus the Savior for all — outsiders, the poor, the nations — the one who, on the Emmaus road, opened all the Scriptures to show they were about himself.
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