Zechariah 13:9
And I have brought the third into fire, || And refined them like a refining of silver, || And have tried them like a trying of gold, || It calls in My Name, and I answer it, || I have said, It [is] My people, || And it says, YHWH [is] my God!”
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Leviticus 26:12and I have habitually walked in your midst, and have become your God, and you become My people;
Deuteronomy 26:17Today you have proclaimed YHWH to be to you for God, that [you are] to walk in His ways, and to keep His statutes, and His commands, and His judgments, and to listen to His voice.
Job 23:10For He has known the way with me, || He has tried me—I go forth as gold.
Psalms 34:15The eyes of YHWH [are] to the righteous, || And His ears to their cry.
Psalms 50:15And call Me in a day of adversity, || I deliver you, and you honor Me.
Psalms 91:15He calls Me, and I answer him, || I [am] with him in distress, || I deliver him, and honor him.
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 13:8-9
Sufferings of Christ Predicted. ( b. c. 500.) 7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. 8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord , two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as… Read the whole commentary →