Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Be silent - Literally, "hush all flesh, before the Lord" (see at Habakkuk 2:20, p. 207); man in his weakness Genesis 6:3; II Chronicles 32:8; Job 10:4; Psalms 56:4; Psalms 78:39; Isaiah 31:3; Jeremiah 17:5, "flesh and blood" in the language of the New Testament Matthew 16:17; I Corinthians 15:50; Galatians 1:16, before God his Maker. "All flesh," the whole human race Genesis 6:12; Psalms 65:3; Psalms 145:21; Isaiah 40:5-6; Isaiah 49:26; Isaiah 66:23; Joel 3:1; Ezekiel 21:4, Ezekiel 21:9-10, is to be hushed before God, because His judgments, as His mercies, are over all.
For God ariseth - God seemeth to be quiescent, as it were, when He bears with us; to arise, when He puts forth His power, either for us, when we pray, "Lord, awake to help me" (Psalms 59:4, add Psalms 7:7; Psalms 44:24); or in displeasure. His "holy habitation" is alike the tabernacle I Samuel 2:29, I Samuel 2:32; Psalms 26:9; Psalms 68:6, temple II Chronicles 36:15, heaven Deuteronomy 26:15; Jeremiah 25:30; II Chronicles 30:27, since His presence is in all.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Zechariah 2:13:
Isaiah 41:1
Joel 2:28
Zechariah 2:12
Zechariah 8:3
Zechariah 8:20
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