Zechariah 1:17
Again, proclaim, saying: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
18(2-1) And 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 have chosen David to be over My people Israel.
Nehemiah 11:20And the residue of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.
Psalms 132:13For the LORD hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for His habitation:
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 of Jerusalem: 'She shall be inhabited'; and of the cities of Judah: 'They shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places thereof';
Isaiah 51:3For the LORD hath comforted Zion; He hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the 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 →