Zechariah 1:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

The angel

How

Revelation 6:10

Thou hast

Daniel 9:2

General references

Isaiah 64:12

Bible References

The angel

I saw at night, and behold, a man was riding on a red horse, and he was standing among the myrtle trees which were in the ravine, with red, sorrel and white horses behind him.

“Behold, I am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

In all their affliction

He was afflicted,

And the angel of His presence saved them;
In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them,
And He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.

Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

How

How long, O God, will the adversary revile,
And the enemy spurn Your name forever?

O God, it is You who knows my folly,
And my wrongs are not hidden from You.

You will arise and have compassion on Zion;
For it is time to be gracious to her,
For the appointed time has come.

Do not be angry beyond measure, O Lord,

Nor remember iniquity forever;

Behold, look now, all of us are Your people.

and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O

Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

Thou hast

“Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months these seventy years, was it actually for Me that you fasted?

to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath

until seventy years were complete.

This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

“For thus says the Lord, ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place.

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

General references

Will You restrain Yourself at these things, O Lord?
Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?