Zechariah 9:9 (YLT)

Passage

Rejoice exceedingly, O daughter of Zion, Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, Lo, thy King doth come to thee, Righteous--and saved is He, Afflicted--and riding on an ass, And on a colt--a son of she-asses.

Nearby Context

Zechariah 9:7 And turned aside his blood from his mouth, His abominations from between his teeth, And he hath remained, even he, to our God, And he hath been as a leader in Judah, And Ekron as a Jebusite.

Zechariah 9:8 And I have pitched for My house a camp, Because of the passer through, and of the returner, And pass not through against them again doth an exactor, For, now, I have seen with My eyes.

Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice exceedingly, O daughter of Zion, Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, Lo, thy King doth come to thee, Righteous--and saved is He, Afflicted--and riding on an ass, And on a colt--a son of she-asses.

Zechariah 9:10 And I have cut off the chariot from Ephraim, And the horse from Jerusalem, Yea, cut off hath been the bow of battle, And he hath spoken peace to nations, And his rule <FI>is<Fi> from sea unto sea, And from the river unto the ends of earth.

Zechariah 9:11 Also thou--by the blood of thy covenant, I have sent thy prisoners out of the pit, There is no water in it.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "saved", "rejoice", "exceedingly", "daughter", "zion", "shout", "jerusalem", and "king". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "saved" and "rejoice", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 8's "And I have pitched for My house..." into verse 10's "And I have cut off the chariot...", so "saved" and "rejoice" belong inside that flow. In Zechariah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "saved" and "rejoice" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.