That we should be saved 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;
- BSB salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us,
- ESV 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
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- Ps 106:10He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
- Deut 33:29You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”
- Zeph 3:15–20Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.
- Jer 23:6In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. This is his name by which he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
- Jer 32:37“Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
- Ezek 34:28They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and no one shall make them afraid.
- Luke 1:74to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,
- Isa 54:7–17“For a small moment I have forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
- Ezek 34:25I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
- Jer 30:9–11but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.
- Isa 14:1–3For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.
- 1 Jn 3:8He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
- Zech 9:9–10Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
- Ezek 28:26They shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those who do them despite all around them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh their God.
- Isa 44:24–26Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;
- Ps 106:47Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!
- Ezek 38:8After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.
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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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