Zechariah 1:17
Cry further, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: My cities shall yet overflow with prosperity, and Jehovah shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
18And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 6:6but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
Nehemiah 11:20And the residue of Israel, the priests, [and] the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.
Psalms 132:13For Jehovah hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his dwelling:
Isaiah 40:1Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Isaiah 44:26that confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built up, and I will raise up their ruins;
Isaiah 51:3For Jehovah shall comfort Zion, he shall comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah: gladness and joy shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of song.
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 →