Zechariah 1:17
And the angel that spoke with me said to me, Cry yet, and say, Thus says the Lord Almighty; Yet shall cities be spread abroad through prosperity; and the Lord shall yet have mercy upon Sion, and shall choose Jerusalem.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
18And I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold four horns.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 6:6But I chose Jerusalem that my name should be there; and I chose David to be over my people Israel.
Isaiah 40:1Comfort you⌃, comfort you⌃ my people, says God.
Isaiah 44:26and confirming the word of his servant, and verifying the counsel of his messengers: who says to Jerusalem, You shall be inhabited; and to the cities of Idumea, You⌃ shall be built, and her desert places shall spring forth.
Isaiah 51:3And now I will comfort you, O Sion: and I have comforted all her desert places; and I will make her desert places as a garden, and her + 51:3 Heb. שוב ambiguous. western places as the garden of the Lord; they shall find in her gladness and exultation, thanksgiving and the voice of praise.
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 →