Zechariah 8:14

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁹This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Let your hands be strong, you who now hear these words spoken by the prophets who were present when the foundations were laid to rebuild the temple, the house of the LORD of Hosts. ¹⁰For before those days neither man nor beast received wages, nor was there safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I had turned every man against his neighbor. ¹¹But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as I did in the past," declares the LORD of Hosts. ¹²"For the seed will be prosperous, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will yield its produce, and the skies will give their dew. To the remnant of this people I will give all these things as an inheritance. ¹³As you have been a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid; let your hands be strong." ¹⁴For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Just as I resolved to bring disaster upon you when your fathers provoked Me to anger, and I did not relent," says the LORD of Hosts,¹⁵"so now I have resolved to do good again to Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid. ¹⁶These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound decisions in your gates, ¹⁷do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love perjury, for I hate all these things," declares the LORD.

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As: Zechariah 1:6, Psalms 33:11, Isaiah 14:24, Jeremiah 31:28

I repented: 2 Chronicles 36:16, Jeremiah 4:28, Jeremiah 15:1-6, Jeremiah 20:16, Ezekiel 24:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:12 - repent Numbers 14:11 - How long will this Jeremiah 23:20 - until Jeremiah 29:11 - I know Jeremiah 32:42 - Like Zechariah 1:19 - scattered

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Genesis 8:13
In Noah's six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the water had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

Genesis 8:14
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thus saith the Lord of hosts,.... In order to assure them of the truth of what he promised, he observes the fulfilment of what he had threatened, he being as true and faithful in the one as in the other:

As I thought to punish you: determined to do it, by suffering them to be carried captive:

when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord of hosts; by their immorality, idolatry, and contempt of his prophets:

and I repented not; the Targum adds, "of my word"; of the resolution he had taken up in his heart, and of the declaration of it by his prophets, that he would punish them; this he did not repent of, revoke, change, and alter, but steadily abode by it, and executed it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As I thought to punish you - (Literally, to do evil to you) “and repented not.” In like way God says in Jeremiah, “I have purposed and will not repent.” Jeremiah 4:28.