An Amicable Controversy with a Jewish Rabbi, on The Messiah's Coming / With an Entirely New Exposition of Zechariah, on the Messiah's Kingdom

by John Ranicar Park

And I will strengthen them in the Lord, and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the Lord.

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Notes To Chapter IX.

Verse 1. :יהוה עשה חזיזים ומטר גשם

So the Lord shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain.

The Hebrew here may be rendered (see Lowth and Parkhurst) lightning instead of bright clouds, and the connexion with rain will then be much more obvious; especially with heavy rain, as the Hebrew word literally signifies, which usually follow lightning. The construction will then be as proposed in the text.

So the Lord causing lightning, shall bring heavy rain, &c.

Verse 3. :על הרעים חרה אפי ועל העתודים אפקוד כי פקד יהוה

Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats, for the Lord, &c.