Zechariah 2:10
Context2:10 “Sing out and be happy, Zion my daughter! 1 For look, I have come; I will settle in your midst,” says the Lord.
Zechariah 8:7-8
Context8:7 “The Lord who rules over all asserts, ‘I am about to save my people from the lands of the east and the west. 8:8 And I will bring them to settle within Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be their God, 2 in truth and righteousness.’
Zechariah 8:11
Context8:11 But I will be different now to this remnant of my people from the way I was in those days,’ says the Lord who rules over all,
Zechariah 13:5-6
Context13:5 Instead he will say, ‘I am no prophet – indeed, I am a farmer, for a man has made me his indentured servant since my youth.’ 3 13:6 Then someone will ask him, ‘What are these wounds on your chest?’ 4 and he will answer, ‘Some that I received in the house of my friends.’
1 sn This individualizing of Zion as a daughter draws attention to the corporate nature of the covenant community and also to the tenderness with which the
2 sn The affirmation They will be my people, and I will be their God speaks of covenant renewal, a restoration of the unbroken fellowship the
3 tn Or perhaps “for the land has been my possession since my youth” (so NRSV; similar NAB).
4 tn Heb “wounds between your hands.” Cf. NIV “wounds on your body”; KJV makes this more specific: “wounds in thine hands.”
sn These wounds on your chest. Pagan prophets were often self-lacerated (Lev 19:28; Deut 14:1; 1 Kgs 18:28) for reasons not entirely clear, so this false prophet betrays himself as such by these graphic and ineradicable marks.