Zacarias 1:12

12 Então o anjo do SENHOR respondeu: “SENHOR dos Exércitos, até quando deixarás de ter misericórdia de Jerusalém e das cidades de Judá, com as quais estás indignado há 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 O homem que estava entre as murtas explicou: “São aqueles que o SENHOR enviou por toda a terra”.

11 E eles relataram ao anjo do SENHOR que estava entre as murtas: “Percorremos toda a terra e a encontramos em paz e tranquila”.

12 Então o anjo do SENHOR respondeu: “SENHOR dos Exércitos, até quando deixarás de ter misericórdia de Jerusalém e das cidades de Judá, com as quais estás indignado há setenta anos?”

13 Então o SENHOR respondeu palavras boas e confortadoras ao anjo que falava comigo.

14 E o anjo me disse: “Proclame: Assim diz o SENHOR dos Exércitos: ‘Eu tenho sido muito zeloso com Jerusalém e Sião,