Zakharia 8:13

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Dan kalau dahulu kamu telah menjadi kutuk di antara bangsa-bangsa, hai kaum Yehuda dan kaum Israel, maka sekarang Aku akan menyelamatkan kamu, sehingga kamu menjadi berkat. Janganlah takut, kuatkanlah hatimu!"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dan kalau dahulu kamu telah menjadi kutuk di antara bangsa-bangsa, hai kaum Yehuda dan kaum Israel, maka sekarang Aku akan menyelamatkan kamu, sehingga kamu menjadi berkat. Janganlah takut, kuatkanlah hatimu!"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka akan jadi, sebagaimana kamu telah menjadi suatu kutuk di antara segala bangsa kafir, hai bangsa Yehuda, dan hai bangsa Israel, demikianpun Aku akan memberikan selamat kepadamu, supaya kamu menjadi berkat; janganlah kamu takut, melainkan kuatkanlah tanganmu.

Contextual Overview

⁹ Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes: Let your hands be strong ye that now heare these wordes by the mouth of the prophetes which are in these dayes, that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hoastes is layde, that the temple may be builded. ¹⁰ For before these dayes neither men nor cattaile could winne any thing, neither might any man come in and out in reste for trouble: but I let euery man go against his neighbour. ¹¹ Neuerthelesse, I wyl now intreate the residue of this people no more as afore time, saith the Lorde of Hoastes. ¹² For the seede shal prosper, the vine shal geue her fruite, the grounde shall geue her encrease, and the heauens shal geue their deawe, and I shall cause the remnaunt of this people to haue all these in possession. ¹³ And it shal come to passe, that like as ye were a curse among the heathen O ye house of Iuda and ye house of Israel, euen so wyll I deliuer you, that ye shal be a blessing: feare not, but let your handes be strong: ¹⁴ For thus saith the Lorde of hoastes: Like as I thought to punishe you, what time as your fathers prouoked me vnto wrath, saith the Lorde of hoastes, and spared not: ¹⁵ Euen so am I determined now in these dayes for to do well vnto the house of Iuda & Hierusale: [therfore] feare ye not. ¹⁶ Now the thinges that ye shall do, are these: Speake euery man the trueth vnto his neighbour, execute iudgement truely & peaceably within your portes: ¹⁷ And let none of you imagine euil in his heart against his neighbour, and loue no false othes: for all these are ye thinges that I hate, saith the Lorde.

Bible Verse Review
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a curse: Deuteronomy 28:37, Deuteronomy 29:23-28, 1 Kings 9:7, 1 Kings 9:8, 2 Chronicles 7:20-22, Psalms 44:13, Psalms 44:14, Psalms 44:16, Psalms 79:4, Isaiah 65:15, Isaiah 65:16, Jeremiah 24:9, Jeremiah 25:18, Jeremiah 26:6, Jeremiah 29:18, Jeremiah 42:18, Jeremiah 44:12, Jeremiah 44:22, Lamentations 2:15, Lamentations 2:16, Lamentations 4:15, Ezekiel 5:15, Daniel 9:11

O house: Zechariah 1:19, Zechariah 9:13, Zechariah 10:6, 2 Kings 17:18-20, Isaiah 9:20, Isaiah 9:21, Jeremiah 32:30-32, Jeremiah 33:24, Ezekiel 37:11, Ezekiel 37:16-19

ye shall: The consideration that all nations who now worship the true God, and receive the Sacred Scriptures as His word, have derived the whole of their divine knowledge, under God, from Jewish prophets, apostles, and teachers, and that the Saviour "in whom all nations shall be blessed," sprang from that favoured race, emphatically explains what is meant by "ye shall be a blessing." The full accomplishment of this prediction, however, is probably reserved for the future restoration of the Jews. Zechariah 8:20-23, Zechariah 10:6-9, Genesis 12:2, Genesis 12:3, Genesis 26:4, Ruth 4:11, Ruth 4:12, Psalms 72:17, Isaiah 19:24, Isaiah 19:25, Micah 5:7, Zephaniah 3:20, Galatians 3:14, Galatians 3:28, Galatians 3:29, Haggai 2:19

fear not: Zechariah 8:9, Isaiah 35:3, Isaiah 35:4, Isaiah 41:10-16, 1 Corinthians 16:13

Reciprocal: Numbers 5:27 - the woman Deuteronomy 31:6 - Be strong 2 Samuel 16:21 - the hands Isaiah 43:28 - and have Isaiah 61:9 - their seed Ezekiel 34:26 - make them Daniel 10:19 - be strong Zephaniah 3:15 - hath taken Haggai 2:5 - fear Zechariah 8:15 - fear Romans 4:20 - but was Ephesians 6:10 - be

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the sixe hundreth yere of Noahs lyfe, in the seconde moneth, the seuenteene day of ye moneth, in the same day were all the fountaynes of the great deepe broken vp, and the wyndowes of heauen were opened.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall come to pass, [that] as ye were a curse among the heathen,.... Reproached, vilified, and called accursed by them; see Jeremiah 24:9 as true Christians, and real believers in Christ, are by the men of this world, 1 Corinthians 4:12:

O house of Judah, and house of Israel; both being carried captive at different times, and were typical of the true and Spiritual Israel of God:

so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing; be blessed in themselves with the above blessings of plenty and prosperity in outward things; see Haggai 2:19 and a blessing to others, and blessed by them; and all those who are saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation are blessed with all spiritual blessings in him:

fear not; neither their enemies, nor the accomplishment of these promises:

[but] let your hands be strong; as in Zechariah 8:9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As ye were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you - The ten tribes bore the name of Israel, in contrast with the two tribes with the name of Judah, not only in the history but in the prophets; as Hosea says, “I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, and on the house of Judah I will have mercy” Hosea 1:6-7. Here he unites both; both, in the time of their captivity, were a curse, were held to be a thing accursed, as it is said, “He that is hanged is the curse of God” Deuteronomy 21:23, that is, a thing accursed by Him; and God foretold of Judah, that they should be “a desolation and a curse” 2 Kings 22:10, and by Jeremiah, “I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for hurt, a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all places whither I shall drive them” ; and in deed, when it was so, “therefore is your land a desolation and an astonishment and a curse without an inhabitant, as at this day” Jeremiah 44:22.

Now the sentence was to be reversed as to both. “As ye were a curse, among the nations, naming each, so I will save you.” There would have been no proportion between the curse and the blessing, unless both had been included under the blessing, as they were under the curse. But Israel had no share in the temporal blessing, not returning from captivity, as Zechariah knew they were not returned hitherto. Therefore the blessings promised must be spiritual. Even a Jewish commentator saw this. “It is possible, that this may have been spoken of the second temple, on condition that they should keep the commandments of the Lord; or, it is still future, referring to the days of the Messiah: and this is proved by the following verse which says, ‘O house of Judah and house of Israel.’ During the second temple the house of Israel did not return.”

And ye shall be a blessing - This is a revival and an application of the original promise to Abraham, “thou shalt be a blessing” Genesis 12:2; which was continued to Jacob, “God give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee and to thy seed with thee” Genesis 28:4. And of the future king, of whom it is said, “Thou gavest him length of days forever and ever,” David says, “Thou hast made him blessings forever” Psalms 21:4, Psalms 21:6, and again, “They shall be blessed in Him” Psalms 72:17). So Isaiah had said of the days of Christ, “In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the land;” Isaiah 19:24; and symbolically of the cluster of grapes, “Destroy it not: for a blessing is in it” Isaiah 65:8; and Ezekiel, “I will make them and the places round about My hill a blessing” Ezekiel 34:26. They were this; for of them, “according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever” Romans 9:5; of them were the Apostles and Evangelists, of them every writer of God’s word, of them those who carried the Gospel throughout the world. Osorius: “Was this fulfilled, when the Jews were under the Persians? or when they paid tribute to the Greeks? or when they trembled, hour by hour, at the mention of the Roman name? Do not all count those who rule much happier than those oppressed by the rule of others? The prediction then was fulfilled, not then, but when Christ, the Sun of Righteousness, shone on the earth, and He chose from the Hebrews lights, through whom to dissipate darkness and illumine the minds of people who were in that darkness. The Jews, when restored from the captivity, seemed born to slavery.” They were reputed to be of slaves the most despised. “But when they had through Christ been put in possession of that most sure liberty, they overthrew, through their empire, the power and tyranny of the evil spirits.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 8:13. As ye were a curse — Instead of being execrated among the people, ye shall be blessed; instead of being reproached, ye shall be commended. Ye shall be a blessing to all the nations round about. All these promises we may expect to be completely fulfilled when the Jews acknowledge their Messiah.

O house of Judah, and house of Israel — The restoration shall be complete, when both Israel and Judah are brought back.