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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Zechariah 12:1 - 12:1
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Zec 12:1-14. Jerusalem the instrument of judgment on her foes hereafter; Her repentance and restoration.
burden - “weighty prophecy”; fraught with destruction to Israel’s foes; the expression may also refer to the distresses of Israel implied as about to precede the deliverance.
for Israel - concerning Israel [Maurer].
stretcheth forth - present; now, not merely “hath stretched forth,” as if God only created and then left the universe to itself (Joh 5:17). To remove all doubts of unbelief as to the possibility of Israel’s deliverance, God prefaces the prediction by reminding us of His creative and sustaining power. Compare a similar preface in Isa 42:5; Isa 43:1; Isa 65:17, Isa 65:18.
formeth ... spirit of man - (Num 16:22; Heb 12:9).