Zechariah 1:17
Cry yet again, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts: My cities shall yet overflow with prosperity, and LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
18And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, four horns.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 6:6But I have chosen Jerusalem that my name might be there. And have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
Nehemiah 11:20And the rest of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, everyone in his inheritance.
Psalms 132:13For LORD has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
Isaiah 40:1Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, says your God.
Isaiah 44:26who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited, and of the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places of it,
Isaiah 51:3For LORD has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of LORD. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 1:8-18
The Vision of the Horse and Myrtles; Intercession for Jerusalem. ( b. c. 520.) 7 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, 8 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white. 9 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And… Read the whole commentary →