As you have been a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid; let your hands be strong.”
Chapter 8 Lecture One Hundred and forty-eighth Zechariah 8:1, 2 1. Again the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, 1. Et fuit sermo Jehovae exercituum, dicendo, — 2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury. 2.
Commenting on Zechariah 8:1-23
God, by the prophet, here gives further assurances of the mercy he had in store for Judah and Jerusalem. Here is line upon line for their comfort, as before there was for their conviction. These verses contain strong encouragements with reference to the difficulties they now laboured under. And we may observe, I.
Commenting on Zechariah 8:9-17
For thus saith the Lord of hosts,.... In order to assure them of the truth of what he promised, he observes the fulfilment of what he had threatened, he being as true and faithful in the one as in the other: As I thought to punish you: determined to do it, by suffering them to be carried captive: when your fathers provoked me to wrath...