Zechariah 6:8

Then he cried out to me, “Look! The ones going to the northland have brought me ¹  peace about the northland.” ² 

Jud 8:3; Jud 15:7; Ec 10:4; Isa 1:24; Isa 18:3,4; Isa 42:13-15; Isa 48:14; Isa 51:22,23; Jer 51:48,49; Eze 5:13; Eze 16:42,63; Zec 1:15; Re 18:21,22

¹ tn Heb “my spirit.” The subject appears to be the Lord who exclaims here that the horsemen have accomplished their task of bringing peace.

² sn The immediate referent of peace about the northland is to the peace brought by Persia’s conquest of Babylonia, a peace that allowed the restoration of the Jewish people (cf. 2 Chr 36:22-23; Isa 44:28; 45:1-2). However, there is also an eschatological dimension, referring to a time when there will be perfect and universal peace.