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- Zechariah
- Chapter 10
- Verse 8
I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.
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Gill's Exposition
I will hiss for them,.... Or "whistle for them" (p); the word signifies, as Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, the motion of the lips with the voice, and is a sign of calling; and so the Targum renders…
Barnes' Notes
I will hiss for them - Formerly God had so spoken of His summoning the enemies of His people to chastise them. “It shall be in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly, that is in the uttermost…
Adam Clarke
I will hiss for them - אשרקה eshrekah, "I will shriek for them;" call them with such a shrill strong voice, that they shall hear me, and find that it is the voice of their redemption.
Here are divers precious promises made to the people of God, which look further than to the state of the Jews in the latter days of their church, and have certain reference to the spiritual Israel of…
Cambridge Bible
I will hiss for them "Formerly God had so spoken of His summoning the enemies of His people to chastise them (Isa 7:18-19; Isa 5:26-27). He would gather them like the countless numbers of the insect…
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