For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:
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Gill's Exposition
So again,.... Or "so I am returned" (n), as in Zac 8:3,
have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah; by bestowing the above mentioned blessings on them; and as…
Barnes' Notes
As I thought to punish you - (Literally, to do evil to you) “and repented not.” In like way God says in Jeremiah, “I have purposed and will not repent.” Jer 4:28.
God, by the prophet, here gives further assurances of the mercy he had in store for Judah and Jerusalem. Here is line upon line for their comfort, as before there was for their conviction. These…
"The ground upon which the promise rests is given in Zec 8:14-15, and it is closed in Zec 8:16-17, by the addition of the condition on which it is to be fulfilled." Keil.
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