1Ask you^2f of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) rain in the time of the latter rain; [so] the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to everyone grass in the field.

2For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because [there was] no shepherd.

3Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] has visited his flock the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and has made them as his goodly horse in the battle.

4Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.

5And they shall be as mighty [men], which trample down [their enemies] in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

6And I will strengthen the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and I will save the house of Yosef [(God) He Shall Add], and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I [am] the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and will hear them.

7And [they of] Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] shall be like a mighty [man], and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yes, their children shall see [it], and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

8I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.

9And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.

10I will bring them again also out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and gather them out of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))); and I will bring them into the land of Gil’ad [Rocky Region] and L’vanon [Whiteness]; and [place] shall not be found for them.

11And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall strike the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) shall be brought down, and the scepter of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] shall depart away.

12And I will strengthen them in the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and they shall walk up and down in his name, says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).