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 by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood beween the myrtles which were in shady place; and after him red horses, bay, and white.

Behold, I send a messenger before thee to guard thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place which I prepared.

In all their straits not an adversary, and: a messenger of his face saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he will take them up and bear them all the days forever.

Wherefore he is able to save entirely those coming to God by him, always living to supplicate for them.

How

How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? Shall the enemy despise thy name forever?

O God, thou knewest for my folly, and my faults were not hid from thee.

Thou wilt arise, thou wilt compassionate Zion: for the time to compassionate her for the appointment came.

Thou wilt not be angry, O Jehovah, even greatly, and not forever wilt thou remember iniquity: behold, look now, Ye are all thy people.

And they cried with a great voice, saying, Till when, Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood of them dwelling upon earth

Thou hast

Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh, and this seventy years, fasting, fasted ye to me, me?

To fill up the word of Jehovah in the mouth of Jeremiah, till the land delighted in her Sabbaths: all the days she was laid waste she rested, to complete seventy years.

All this land was for a waste, for a desolation, and these nations served the king of Babel seventy years.

For thus said Jehovah, That according to the filling up to Babel of seventy years I will review you and lift up to you my good word to turn you back to this place.

In one year to the kingdom, I Daniel understood by books the number of years which the word of Jehovah was to Jeremiah the prophet, to fill up for the desolations of Jerusalem seventy years.

General references

For these wilt thou refrain thyself, O Jehovah? wilt thou be silent, and wilt thou humble us even greatly?