Zechariah 9:1
This is another message that I received from Yahweh. Yahweh said, “I watch [MTY] everyone, especially the tribes of Israel; so I will punish the people in the Hadrach region and in Damascus city because of what they did to the people of Israel.
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2 Chronicles 20:12So, our God, please punish them, because we do not have enough power to resist/defeat this huge army that is coming to attack us. We do not know what to do. But we are pleading for you to help us.”
Psalms 145:15All of the creatures that you made expect that you will provide food for them, and you give them food when they need it.
Isaiah 13:1I, Isaiah, the son of Amoz, received from Yahweh this message about Babylon city:
Isaiah 17:7Then, at that time, you people of Israel will ◄turn for help to/look up to► God, your creator, the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 52:10Yahweh will show all the nations that he is holy and powerful. People in the most remote/distant places on earth will know that he has rescued his people.
Jeremiah 23:33Yahweh said to me, “If one of those prophets or priests or one of the other people asks you, ‘What problem has Yahweh told you about now?’, you must reply, ‘You are the problem! And Yahweh says that he will abandon you!’
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 9:1
At this chapter begins another sermon, which is continued to the end of ch. xi. It is called, "The burden of the word of the Lord," for every word of God has weight in it to those who regard it, and will be a heavy weight upon those who do not, a dead weight. Here is, I. A prophecy against the Jews' unrighteous neighbours—the Syrians, Tyrians, Philistines, and others ( ver. 1-6 ), with an intimation of mercy to some of them, in their conversion ( ver. 7 ), and a promise of mercy to God's people, in their… Read the whole commentary →