Zechariah 8:7

7 This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will be the saviour of my people from the east country, and from the west country;

Zechariah 8:7 Meaning and Commentary

Zechariah 8:7

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold
As being something wonderful, of great importance, and deserving attention: I will save my people from the east country, and from the west
country;
this can not be understood of bringing those Jews that remained in Babylon, and other places, to their own land, for Babylon lay north of Judea; see ( Zechariah 6:6 Zechariah 6:8 ) , and as yet there were no Jews in the western part of the world; but now they are chiefly in the east and west, from whence they will be gathered at the time of their general conversion; though this may refer to the times of the apostles of Christ, and to their ministry in the several parts of the world, who went forth, east, west, north, and south, and were the means and instruments of saving the Lord's people, both Jews and Gentiles, wherever they came, from the rising of the sun, to the setting of the same; see ( Malachi 1:11 ) ( Matthew 8:11 ) .

Zechariah 8:7 In-Context

5 And the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its open spaces.

6 This is what the Lord of armies has said: If this is a wonder to the rest of this people, is it a wonder to me? says the Lord of armies.

7 This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will be the saviour of my people from the east country, and from the west country;

8 And I will make them come and be living in Jerusalem and they will be to me a people and I will be to them a God, in good faith and in righteousness.

9 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your hands be strong, you who are now hearing these words from the mouths of the prophets, that is to say, in the days when the base of the house of the Lord of armies has been put in place for the building of the house, that is the Temple.