Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsHo Zion, escape, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
“Get up, O Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the Daughter of Babylon!”
Ho, Zion, be delivered who art dwelling with the daughter of Babylon.
Ho! escape, Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentZechariah — Contemporary of Haggai — but longer, stranger, and more explicitly Messianic. Eight night visions, a royal-priestly crown, Zion's king riding on a donkey, and the pierced one they shall look upon.
- Author
- Zechariah son of Berechiah, son of Iddo (1:1) — priest and prophet of the return
- Date
- Began 520 BC, contemporary with Haggai; later oracles (ch. 9–14) may date to the later 5th c. BC