Zacarias 1:12

12 Então o anjo do Senhor respondeu, e disse: O Senhor dos exércitos, até quando não terás compaixão de Jerusalém, e das cidades de Judá, contra as quais estiveste indignado estes setenta anos?

Zacarias 1:12 Meaning and Commentary

Zechariah 1:12

Then the Angel of the Lord answered and said
The same that was among the myrtle trees in the bottom, ( Zechariah 1:8 Zechariah 1:10 Zechariah 1:11 ) : O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem,
and on the cities of Judah;
which were fallen to ruin, and had lain waste for many years. These words are expressive of the intercession of Christ on the behalf of the people of the Jews, his professing people, both with respect to their temporal and spiritual good: against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten
years?
the time of the Babylonish captivity, which lasted such a term of time, and which was a token of the divine displeasure with them; but to be reckoned, not from Jeconiah's captivity, to the deliverance from it by Cyrus, as it is reckoned, ( Jeremiah 25:1 Jeremiah 25:11 ) ( Daniel 9:2 ) but from the taking of Jerusalem, and the destruction of the temple under Zedekiah, to the rebuilding of the temple under Darius Hystaspis, in whose second year Zechariah now prophesied, ( Zechariah 1:7 ) , which was a space of seventy years.

Zacarias 1:12 In-Context

10 Respondeu, pois, o homem que estava parado entre as murtas, e disse: Estes são os que o Senhor tem enviado para percorrerem a terra.

11 E eles responderam ao anjo do Senhor, que estava parado entre as murtas, e disseram: Nós temos percorrido a terra, e eis que a terra toda está tranqüila e em descanso.

12 Então o anjo do Senhor respondeu, e disse: O Senhor dos exércitos, até quando não terás compaixão de Jerusalém, e das cidades de Judá, contra as quais estiveste indignado estes setenta anos?

13 Respondeu o Senhor ao anjo que falava comigo, com palavras boas, palavras consoladoras.

14 O anjo, pois, que falava comigo, disse-me: Clama, dizendo: Assim diz o Senhor dos exércitos: Com grande zelo estou zelando por Jerusalém e por Sião.