Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
JERUSALEM THE INSTRUMENT OF JUDGMENT ON HER FOES HEREAFTER; HER REPENTANCE AND RESTORATION. (Zechariah 12:1-14)
burden—"weighty prophecy"; fraught with destruction to Israel's foes; the expression may also refer to the distresses of Israel implied as about to precede the deliverance.
for Israel—concerning Israel [MAURER].
stretcheth forth—present; now, not merely "hath stretched forth," as if God only created and then left the universe to itself (John 5:17). To remove all doubts of unbelief as to the possibility of Israel's deliverance, God prefaces the prediction by reminding us of His creative and sustaining power. Compare a similar preface in Isaiah 42:5; Isaiah 43:1; Isaiah 65:17-18.
formeth . . . spirit of man— (Numbers 16:22; Hebrews 12:9).
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