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Zechariah
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The word of the LORD of Armies came to me. The LORD of Armies says: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.” See also: Joel 2:18Zechariah 1:14-16Psalms 78:58-59The LORD says: “I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the middle of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called ‘The City of Truth;’ and the mountain of the LORD of Armies, ‘The Holy Mountain.’” See also: John 1:14Zechariah 1:16Isaiah 1:26The LORD of Armies says: “Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand because of their old age. See also: Isaiah 65:20-22Job 42:171 Samuel 2:31The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.” See also: Jeremiah 31:13Zechariah 2:4Jeremiah 30:19-20The LORD of Armies says: “If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?” says the LORD of Armies. See also: Jeremiah 32:27Luke 18:27Luke 1:37The LORD of Armies says: “Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country. See also: Jeremiah 31:8Amos 9:14-15Malachi 1:11I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.” See also: Ezekiel 36:28Ezekiel 11:20Jeremiah 31:33The LORD of Armies says: “Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built. See also: Isaiah 35:4Ezra 5:1-2Ephesians 6:10For before those days there was no wages for man nor any wages for an animal, neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbor. See also: Haggai 1:6-11Isaiah 19:2Amos 9:4But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,” says the LORD of Armies. See also: Isaiah 12:1Haggai 2:19Psalms 103:9“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew. I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things. See also: Leviticus 26:4-5Deuteronomy 33:13Matthew 6:33It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.” See also: 1 Corinthians 16:13Genesis 12:2-3Zephaniah 3:20For the LORD of Armies says: “As I thought to do evil to you when your fathers provoked me to wrath,” says the LORD of Armies, “and I didn’t repent, See also: Ezekiel 24:14Jeremiah 31:28Jeremiah 4:28so again I have thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don’t be afraid. See also: Zechariah 8:13Micah 7:18-20Luke 12:32These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates, See also: Ephesians 4:25Zechariah 7:9Psalms 15:2and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath; for all these are things that I hate,” says the LORD. See also: Proverbs 6:16-19Malachi 3:5Micah 2:1-3The word of the LORD of Armies came to me. The LORD of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.” See also: Jeremiah 39:2Zechariah 8:16Zechariah 7:5The LORD of Armies says: “Many peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come. See also: Isaiah 2:2-3Zechariah 2:11Micah 4:1-2The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, ‘Let’s go speedily to entreat the favor of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of Armies. I will go also.’ See also: Zechariah 7:2Psalms 146:1-2Hosea 6:3Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the LORD of Armies in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD.” See also: Zechariah 8:21Isaiah 25:7Revelation 21:24The LORD of Armies says: “In those days, ten men out of all the languages of the nations will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’” See also: Isaiah 55:5Isaiah 45:141 Corinthians 14:25
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)12 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Zechariah 8:2
Ver. 2. Jealous for her, treating her as a spouse, (C.) and not neglecting her as one incorrigible.
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↑ 2Zechariah 8:3
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 3. Truth. Idols and infidelity shall reign there no more. The Jews were more faithful after the captivity. But the Church of Christ is alone perfectly chaste. C.
↑ 3Zechariah 8:6
Ver. 6. Days. If no prospect of such happiness now appear, is any thing difficult to Omnipotence? H. Lu. i. 37.
↑ 6Zechariah 8:7
Ver. 7. Sun, from Chaldea and the islands. This chiefly regards the Christian Church. C. ---
Assyria and Chaldea lay to the north. The promises are too great for the synagogue. W.
↑ 7Zechariah 8:8
Ver. 8. Justice. I will fulfil my promises, if they adhere to virtue. C.
↑ 8Zechariah 8:10
Ver. 10. Hire, or "reward;" merces. H. --- All their toils proved useless: (C.) the land would not yield her fruit. H. See Agg. ii. 16. --- The temple had now been building two years, and then God sent his prophets and many blessings. ---
Neighbour. Civil broils and the enemy rendered all wretched. 1 Esd. iv.
↑ 10Zechariah 8:13
Ver. 13. Blessing. As the nations could wish no greater curse than what you have experienced, so you shall now be regarded as a most happy people.
↑ 13Zechariah 8:16
Ver. 16. Of peace, or perfect. Shew no partiality.
↑ 16Zechariah 8:17
Ver. 17. Friend means every neighbour, or all mankind. Lu. x. 27. 36. Even thoughts must be guarded. C.
↑ 17Zechariah 8:19
Ver. 19. Fast. They fasted on the ninth day of the fourth month, because on that day Nabuchodonosor took Jerusalem. Jer. lii. 6. On the tenth day of the fifth month, because on that day the temple was burnt. Jer. lii. 12. On the third day of the seventh month, for the murder of Godolias. Jer. xli. 2. And on the tenth day of the tenth month, because on that day the Chaldeans began to besiege Jerusalem. 4 K. xxv. 1. All these fasts, if they will be obedient for the future, shall be changed (as is here promised) into joyful solemnities. Ch. --- They had only inquired about the fasts of the fifth and seventh months but the two others were also to be omitted in times of joy. W. --- The Jews still observe all four. Basnage v. 16. --- They fast on the seventeenth of the fourth month, because the breach was then made in the walls, (C.) and Moses broke the tables of the law, according to the Jews, in S. Jer. The ninth of the fifth month is also kept instead of the tenth, on which day the city was taken by the Chaldees; (C.) and the Romans burnt the temple in the same month, as the Israelites had then formerly been sentenced to wander in the desert. S.
Jer. --- It would be difficult for the Jews to prove all these assertions.
↑ 19Zechariah 8:22
Ver. 22. Lord. Many were converted in the days of Esther, (viii. 17.) and the Pharisees were eager to make proselytes in all parts, when Christ preached.
Mat. xxiii. 15. Acts ii. 11. Yet we must go to the Church to see this fully accomplished. C.
↑ 22Zechariah 8:23
Ver. 23. Ten men, &c. Many of the Gentiles became proselytes to the Jewish religion before Christ; but many more were converted to Christ by the apostles and other preachers of the Jewish nation. Ch. --- Skirt, or hem, by which the Jews were distinguished. Num. xv. 38. Mat. ix. 20.
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↑ 23License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses