daily reading 27.3 (Zechariah 9:9

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Our opening prayer for this week:

All people that on earth do dwell,

Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice.

Him serve with fear, his praise forth tell;

Come ye before gim and rejoice.

The Lord, ye know, is God indeed;

Without our aid he did us make;

We are his folk, he doth us feed,

And for his sheep he doth us take.

O enter then his gates with praise;

Approach with joy his courts unto;

Praise, laud, and bless his name always,

For it is seemly so to do.

For why? the Lord our God is good;

His mercy is for ever sure;

His truth at all times firmly stood,

And shall from age to age endure.

To Father, Son and Holy Ghost,

The God whom heaven and earth adore,

From men and from the angel host

Be praise and glory evermore.

Zechariah 9:9–13

Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout in triumph, Daughter Jerusalem! Look, your King is coming to you; he is righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem. The bow of war will be removed, and he will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.
11 As for you, because of the blood of your covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless cistern.
12 Return to a stronghold, you prisoners who have hope; today I declare that I will restore double to you. 13 For I will bend Judah as my bow; I will fill that bow with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece. I will make you like a warrior's sword.

Helpful notes on Zechariah 9:9–13

That for Jesus's sake God gives your country peace through just, selfless leadership