Zaccaria 12:2

La Nuova Diodati

"Ecco, io far di Gerusalemme, una coppa di stordimento per tutti i popoli circostanti; verranno pure contro Giuda, quando cingeranno dassedio Gerusalemme.

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
Ecco, io farò di Gerusalemme una coppa di stordimento per tutti i popoli all’intorno; e questo concernerà anche Giuda, quando si cingerà d’assedio Gerusalemme.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Ecco, io farò che Gerusalemme sarà una coppa di stordimento a tutti i popoli d’intorno; eziandio, quando avran posto l’assedio a Gerusalemme, facendo guerra contro a Giuda.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a cup: Psalms 75:8, Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 51:22, Isaiah 51:23, Jeremiah 25:15, Jeremiah 25:17, Jeremiah 49:12, Jeremiah 51:7, Habakkuk 2:16, Revelation 14:10, Revelation 16:19, Revelation 18:6

trembling: or, slumber, Jeremiah 51:57, or, poison, Jeremiah 8:14

when they: etc. or, and also against Judah shall he be, which shall be in siege against Jerusalem, Zechariah 14:14

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:21 - a mighty God Deuteronomy 28:52 - General Ezra 6:12 - destroy Esther 6:13 - If Mordecai Isaiah 60:12 - General Jeremiah 2:3 - all that Jeremiah 12:14 - that Jeremiah 30:16 - General Jeremiah 33:9 - fear Jeremiah 50:28 - to declare Jeremiah 51:11 - the vengeance Ezekiel 38:15 - and many Ezekiel 38:17 - whom Daniel 3:22 - slew Habakkuk 2:8 - the violence Haggai 2:22 - overthrow Zechariah 1:20 - four Zechariah 9:13 - bent Zechariah 12:9 - I will Zechariah 14:3 - General Acts 26:14 - hard

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about,.... The Targum renders it,

"a vessel full of inebriating liquor;''

which intoxicates and makes giddy, and causes to tremble, stagger, and fall like a drunken man. The phrase denotes the punishment inflicted by the Lord upon the enemies of his church and people; see

Isaiah 51:22:

when they shall be in the siege both against Judah [and] against Jerusalem; not by Antiochus Epiphanes; nor by Titus Vespasian; nor by Gog and Magog, as Kimchi; but by the antichristian powers, especially the Mahometan nations, the Turks, which shall come against Jerusalem, when the Jews are returned thither, and resettled in their own land; see Ezekiel 38:5. The words should be rendered, "and upon Judah shall it be" y, i.e. the cup of trembling, "in the siege against Jerusalem"; according to the Targum, and the Jewish commentators, the nations of the earth shall bring the men of Judah by force to join with them in the siege of Jerusalem; as, in the times of Antiochus, many of the Jews were drawn in to fight against their brethren; but the meaning is, that not only the wrath of God will come upon the Mahometan nations that shall besiege Jerusalem; but also on those who bear the Christian name, who are Jews outwardly, but not inwardly; and shall join with the Turks in distressing the people of the Jews upon their return to their own land: to besiege Judah, or a country, is not proper and pertinent: Jerusalem, when again in the hands of the Jews, according to this prophecy, only is to be besieged, as it will, by the Turks; and it should be observed, that it never was besieged by Antiochus, and therefore the prophecy can not be applied to his times, as it is by many.

y וגם על יהודה יהיה "et etiam super Jehudah erit", Pagninus, Montanus, Burkius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling - For encouragement, He promises the victory, and at first mentions the attack incidentally. Jerusalem is as a cup or basin, which its enemies take into their hands; a stone, which they put forth their strength to lift; but they themselves reel with the draught of God’s judgments which they would give to others, they are torn by the stone which they would lift to fling. The image of the “cup” is mostly of God’s displeasure, which is given to His own people, and then, His judgment of chastisement being exceeded, given in turn to those who had been the instruments of giving it . Thus, Isaiah speaks of “the cup of trembling.” Thou, “Jerusalem, hast drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling, hast wrung them out. Therefore hear thou this, thou afflicted and drunken but not with wine. Thus saith thy Lord, the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of His people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, the dregs of the cup of My fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: but I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee” Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 51:21-23. Jeremiah speaks of “the cup of God’s anger,” as given by God first to Jerusalem, then to all whom Nebuchadnezzar should subdue, then to Babylon itself Jeremiah 25:15-26; and as “passing through” to Edom also Lamentations 4:21; Jeremiah 49:12; Ezekiel, of “Aholibah” Ezekiel 23:31-33 (Jerusalem) “drinking the cup of Samaria.” In Jeremiah alone, Babylon is herself the cup. “Babylon” is “a golden cup in the Lord’s hand, that made all the nations drunken; the nations have drunken of the wine; therefore the nations are mad” Jeremiah 51:7. Now Jerusalem is to be, not an ordinary cup, but a large “basin” or vessel, from which all nations may drink what will make them reel.

“And also upon Judah will it be in the siege against Jerusalem, that is, the burden of the word of the Lord which was on Israel” should be “upon Judah,” that is, upon all, great and small.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 12:2. Jerusalem a cup of trembling — The Babylonians, who captivated and ruined the Jews, shall in their turn be ruined.

I incline to think that what is spoken in this chapter about the Jews and Jerusalem, belongs to the "glory of the latter times."

Shall be in the siege — This may refer to some war against the Church of Christ, such as that mentioned Revelation 20:9.