Zechariah 12:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.

That day

Zechariah 12:3

Isaiah 24:21

I will smite

Ezekiel 39:20

I will open

General references

Isaiah 60:12

Jeremiah 51:21

Zechariah 14:3

Bible References

That day

And it will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a stone of great weight for all the peoples; all those who take it up will be badly wounded; and all the nations of the earth will come together against it.

And in that day the Lord will send punishment on the army of the high ones on high, and on the kings of the earth on the earth.

I will smite

Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.

And the horses and the transport beasts, the camels and the asses and all the beasts in those tents will be attacked by the same disease.

He will make your minds diseased, and your eyes blind, and your hearts wasted with fear:

So he sent there horses and carriages and a great army; and they came by night, circling the town.

Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.

And turning you round, I will put hooks in your mouth and make you come out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them in full war-dress, a great force with breastplate and body-cover, all of them armed with swords:

At my table you will have food in full measure, horses and war-carriages, great men and all the men of war, says the Lord.

I will open

And I will put my forces in position round my house, so that there may be no coming and going: and no cruel master will again go through them: for now I have seen his trouble.

That your eyes may be open to this house night and day, to this place of which you have said, My name will be there; hearing the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.

That your eyes may be open to this house day and night, to this place of which you have said that you would put your name there; to give ear to the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.

Now my eyes will be open and my ears awake to the prayers made in this place.

Let your ear now take note and let your eyes be open, so that you may give ear to the prayer of your servant, which I make before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel, your servants, while I put before you the sins of the children of Israel, which we have done against you: truly, I and my father's people are sinners.

Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord; let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see: take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.

For I will keep my eyes on them for good, and I will take them back again to this land, building them up and not pulling them down, planting them and not uprooting them.

O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies.

Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:

General references

For the nation or kingdom which will not be your servant will come to destruction; such nations will be completely waste.

With you the horse and the horseman will be broken; with you the war-carriage and he who goes in it will be broken;

Then the Lord will go out and make war against those nations, as he did in the day of the fight.