Zakharia 8:6

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Beginilah firman TUHAN semesta alam: Kalau pada waktu itu sisa-sisa bangsa ini menganggap hal itu ajaib, apakah Aku akan menganggapnya ajaib? demikianlah firman TUHAN semesta alam.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Beginilah firman TUHAN semesta alam: Kalau pada waktu itu sisa-sisa bangsa ini menganggap hal itu ajaib, apakah Aku akan menganggapnya ajaib? demikianlah firman TUHAN semesta alam.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Demikianlah firman Tuhan serwa sekalian alam: Sebab ajaiblah perkara itu kepada pemandangan orang yang lagi tinggal dari pada bangsa itu pada hari ini, masakan ia itu ajaib kepada pemandangan-Ku? demikianlah firman Tuhan serwa sekalian alam.

Contextual Overview

¹ So the word of the lord of hoastes came vnto me, saying: ² Thus saith the lorde of hoastes: I was in great ielousie for Sion, yea I haue ben very ielous for her with great wrath. ³ Thus saith the Lord: I wyl returne vnto Sion, & wyll dwell in the middest of Hierusalem: so that Hierusalem shalbe called, A faithful and true citie, the hil of the Lorde of hoastes, an holy hill. ⁴ Thus saith the lord of hoastes: There shal yet olde men & olde women dwel againe in the streetes of Hierusalem: yea, & such as go with staues in their handes for very age. ⁵ The streetes of the citie also shalbe ful of young boyes and damsels playing in the streetes thereof. ⁶ Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes: If the residue of this people thinke it to be vnpossible in [their] eyes in these dayes: shoulde it therfore be vnpossible in my sight, saith the Lorde of hoastes? ⁷ Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes: Beholde, I wyll deliuer my people from the countryes of the east and west, ⁸ And wyl bring them againe, that they may dwel in the middest of Hierusalem: they shalbe my people, and I wyl be their God in trueth and righteousnesse.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

marvellous: or, hard, or difficult

should: Genesis 18:14, Numbers 11:22, Numbers 11:23, 2 Kings 7:2, Jeremiah 32:17, Jeremiah 32:27, Luke 1:20, Luke 1:37, Luke 18:27, Romans 4:20, Romans 4:21, Romans 6:19-21

Reciprocal: Ezra 9:8 - a remnant Ecclesiastes 5:8 - marvel Zechariah 8:12 - the remnant Matthew 19:26 - but Mark 10:27 - With men Luke 9:43 - amazed

Cross-References

Genesis 6:16
A wyndowe shalt thou make in the arke, and in a cubite shalt thou finishe it aboue: but the doore of the arke shalt thou set in the syde therof. With three loftes one aboue another shalt thou make it.

Daniel 6:10
Now when Daniel vnderstoode that he had sealed the writing, he went into his house, and the windowes of his chamber towarde Hierusalem stoode open, there kneeled he downe vpon his knees three times a day, he made his petition, and praysed his God, as he dyd afore time.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord of hosts,.... This is repeated for the same end as before; :-:

If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days; either in the then present days and time; and the sense is, if it should seem wonderful, incredible, and scarcely possible to the small number of the Jews in Judea, that all the great and good things before promised should be fulfilled; or in the times of the Gospel, when the remnant, according to the election of grace, would wonder at the marvellous loving kindness of the Lord, in doing each great things for his church and people:

should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the Lord of hosts; no, not as if it was impossible to be done; it shall be done, as marvellous as it may seem to be. Aben Ezra understands these words, not as spoken by way of interrogation and admiration, but as an affirmation; that God would do that which was marvellous, and such as he had never done the like, even as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If it should be marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those - (not these) days, shall it be marvelous in Mine eyes also? saith the Lord of hosts Man’s anticipations, by reason of his imperfections and the chequered character of earthly things, are always disappointing. God’s doings, by reason of His infinite greatness and goodness, are always beyond our anticipations, past all belief. It is their very greatness which staggers us. It is not then merely that the temporal promises seemed “too good to be true” (in our words) (Jerome), “in the eyes of the people who had come from the captivity, seeing that the city almost desolate, the ruins of the city-walls, the charred houses showed the doings of the Babylonians.” It is in the day of the fulfillment, not of the anticipation, that they would seem marvelous in their eyes, as the Psalmist says, “This is the Lord’s doing: and it is marvelous in our eyes” .

The temporal blessings which God would give were not so incredible. They were but the ordinary gifts of His Providence: they involved no change in their outward relations. His people were still to remain under their Persian masters, until their time too should come. It was matter of gladness and of God’s Providence, that the walls of Jerusalem should be rebuilt: but not so marvelous, when it came to pass. The mysteries of the Gospel are a marvel even to the blessed angels. That fulfillment being yet future, so the people, in whose eyes that fulfillment should be marvelous, were future also. And this was to be a remnant still. It does not say, “this people which is a remnant,” nor “this remnant of the people,” that is, those who remained over out of the people who went into captivity, or this remnant, but “the remnant of this people,” that is, those who should remain over of it, that is, of the people who were returned. It is the remnant of the larger whole, this people (see at Amos 1:8, vol. i. p. 247, n. 28, and on Haggai 1:12, p. 305). It is still “the remnant according to the election of grace;” that election which obtained what all Israel sought, but, seeking wrongly, were blinded Romans 11:5-7.

Shall it be marvelous in Mine eyes also? - It is an indirect question in the way of exclamation . “It be marvelous in Mine eyes also,” rejecting the thought, as alien from the nature of God, to whom “all things are possible, yea, what with men is impossible” Matthew 19:26. As God says to Jeremiah, “Behold, I am, the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?” Jeremiah 32:27. “For with God nothing shall be impossible” Luke 1:37. “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God” Luke 18:27. “For with God all things are possible.” Mark 10:27 Cyril: “For He is the Lord of all powers, fulfilling by His will what exceedingly surpasseth nature, and efecting at once what seemeth Him good. The mystery of the Incarnation passeth all marvel and discourse, and no less the benefits redounding to us. For how is it not next to incredible, that the Word, Begotten of God, should be united with the flesh and be in the form of a servant, and endure the Cross and the insults and outrages of the Jews? Or how should one not admire above measure the issue of the dispensation, whereby sin was destroyed, death abolished, corruption expelled, and man, once a recreant slave, became resplendent with the grace of an adopted son?”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 8:6. If it be marvellous — You may think that this is impossible, considering your present low condition: but suppose it be impossible in your eyes, should it be so in mine! saith the Lord of hosts.