Zechariah 8:21-23

8:21 The inhabitants of one will go to another and say, “Let’s go up at once to ask the favor of the Lord, to seek the Lord who rules over all. Indeed, I’ll go with you.”’ 8:22 Many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord who rules over all and to ask his favor. 8:23 The Lord who rules over all says, ‘In those days ten people from all languages and nations will grasp hold of – indeed, grab – the robe of one Jew and say, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”’” 1 

Zechariah 8:2

8:2 “The Lord who rules over all says, ‘I am very much concerned for Zion; indeed, I am so concerned for her that my rage will fall on those who hurt her.’

Zechariah 1:12

1:12 The angel of the Lord then asked, “Lord who rules over all, 2  how long before you have compassion on Jerusalem 3  and the other cities of Judah which you have been so angry with for these seventy years?” 4 

Psalms 25:15

25:15 I continually look to the Lord for help, 5 

for he will free my feet from the enemy’s net. 6 

Isaiah 17:7-8

17:7 At that time 7  men will trust in their creator; 8 

they will depend on 9  the Holy One of Israel. 10 

17:8 They will no longer trust in 11  the altars their hands made,

or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made. 12 

Isaiah 45:20-22

45:20 Gather together and come!

Approach together, you refugees from the nations!

Those who carry wooden idols know nothing,

those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.

45:21 Tell me! Present the evidence! 13 

Let them consult with one another!

Who predicted this in the past?

Who announced it beforehand?

Was it not I, the Lord?

I have no peer, there is no God but me,

a God who vindicates and delivers; 14 

there is none but me.

45:22 Turn to me so you can be delivered, 15 

all you who live in the earth’s remote regions!

For I am God, and I have no peer.

Isaiah 52:10

52:10 The Lord reveals 16  his royal power 17 

in the sight of all the nations;

the entire 18  earth sees

our God deliver. 19 

Psalms 145:15

145:15 Everything looks to you in anticipation, 20 

and you provide them with food on a regular basis. 21 

Jeremiah 16:19

16:19 Then I said, 22 

“Lord, you give me strength and protect me.

You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble. 23 

Nations from all over the earth

will come to you and say,

‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods –

worthless idols that could not help them at all. 24 

1 sn This scene of universal and overwhelming attraction of the nations to Israel’s God finds initial fulfillment in the establishment of the church (Acts 2:5-11) but ultimate completion in the messianic age (Isa 45:14, 24; 60:14; Zech 14:16-21).

1 sn Note that here the angel of the Lord is clearly distinct from the Lord who rules over all himself.

2 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

3 sn The seventy years refers to the predicted period of Babylonian exile, a period with flexible beginning and ending points depending on the particular circumstances in view (cf. Jer 25:1; 28:1; 29:10; Dan 9:2). Here the end of the seventy years appears to be marked by the completion of the temple in 516 b.c., exactly seventy years after its destruction in 586.

1 tn Heb “my eyes continually [are] toward the Lord.”

2 tn Heb “for he will bring out from a net my feet.” The hostility of the psalmist’s enemies is probably in view (see v. 19).

1 tn Heb “in that day” (so ASV, NASB, NIV); KJV “At that day.”

2 tn Heb “man will gaze toward his maker.”

3 tn Heb “his eyes will look toward.”

4 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

1 tn Heb “he will not gaze toward.”

2 tn Heb “and that which his fingers made he will not see, the Asherah poles and the incense altars.”

1 tn Heb “Declare! Bring near!”; NASB “Declare and set forth your case.” See 41:21.

2 tn Or “a righteous God and deliverer”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “a righteous God and a Savior.”

1 tn The Niphal imperative with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose after the preceding imperative. The Niphal probably has a tolerative sense, “allow yourselves to be delivered, accept help.”

1 tn Heb “lays bare”; NLT “will demonstrate.”

2 tn Heb “his holy arm.” This is a metonymy for his power.

3 tn Heb “the remote regions,” which here stand for the extremities and everything in between.

4 tn Heb “the deliverance of our God.” “God” is a subjective genitive here.

1 tn Heb “the eyes of all wait for you.”

2 tn Heb “and you give to them their food in its season” (see Ps 104:27).

1 tn The words “Then I said” are not in the text. They are supplied in the translation to show the shift from God, who has been speaking to Jeremiah, to Jeremiah, who here addresses God.

2 tn Heb “O Lord, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of trouble. The literal which piles up attributes is of course more forceful than the predications. However, piling up poetic metaphors like this adds to the length of the English sentence and risks lack of understanding on the part of some readers. Some rhetorical force has been sacrificed for the sake of clarity.

3 tn Once again the translation has sacrificed some of the rhetorical force for the sake of clarity and English style: Heb “Only falsehood did our ancestors possess, vanity and [things in which?] there was no one profiting in them.”