Zechariah 7:14

Zechariah 7:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
• New International Version (NIV)‘I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land they left behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it. This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.’ ”
• English Standard Version (ESV)"and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."
• New King James Version (NKJV)“But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no one passed through or returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate.”

Context of Zechariah 7:14

12They made their hearts as hard as flint so that they couldn’t hear the Lord’s teachings, the words that the Lord of Armies had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Lord of Armies became very angry. 13“When I called, they wouldn’t listen. So now when they call, I won’t listen, says the Lord of Armies. I used a windstorm to scatter them among all the nations, nations they hadn’t even heard of. They left behind a land so ruined that no one is able to travel through it. They have turned a pleasant land into a wasteland.”

Zechariah 7:14 word by word

וְאֵ֣סָעֲרֵ֗ם עַ֤ל כָּל־הַגּוֹיִם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹֽא־יְדָע֔וּם וְהָאָ֙רֶץ֙ נָשַׁ֣מָּה אַֽחֲרֵיהֶ֔ם מֵֽעֹבֵ֖ר וּמִשָּׁ֑ב וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ אֶֽרֶץ־חֶמְדָּ֖ה לְשַׁמָּֽה׃ פRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• But I scattered them with a whirlwindסָעַרsâ‛ar · to rageH5590
• among all the nationsגּוֹיgôy gôy · nationH1471
• whom they knewיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• not. Thus the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• was desolateשָׁמֵםshâmêm · be desolate: destroyedH8074
• afterאַחַר'achar · afterH310
• them, that no man passed throughעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674
• nor returnedשׁוּבshûb · to return: repentH7725
• for they laidשׂוּםώûm ώîym · to set: makeH7760
• the pleasantחֶמְדָּהchemdâh · desireH2532
• desolateשַׁמָּהshammâh · horror: destroyedH8047

Cross-references for Zechariah 7:14

• Zechariah 2:6“Hurry, hurry! Flee from the land of the north, declares the Lord. I’ve scattered you to the four winds of heaven.
• Zechariah 9:14The Lord will appear over them, and his arrow will go out like lightning. The Almighty Lord will blow the ram’s horn and will march in the storms from the south.
• Leviticus 26:33I will scatter you among the nations. War will follow you. Your country will be in ruins. Your cities will be deserted.
• Deuteronomy 4:27The Lord will scatter you among the people of the world, and only a few of you will be left among the nations where the Lord will force you to live.
• Deuteronomy 28:33People you never knew will eat what your land and your hard work have produced. As long as you live, you will know nothing but oppression and abuse.
• Psalms 58:9Let ⌞God⌟ sweep them away faster than a cooking pot is heated by burning twigs.
• Isaiah 17:13The people will make noise like raging water. But the Lord will yell at them, and they will run far away. They will be chased away like husks on the mountains being blown by the wind, like whirling dust being blown by a storm.
• Isaiah 21:1This is the divine revelation about the desert by the sea. Like a storm sweeping through the Negev, an invader will come from the desert, from a terrifying land.
• Isaiah 66:15The Lord will come with fire and with his chariots like a thunderstorm. He will pay them back with his burning anger and punish them with flames of fire.
• Jeremiah 4:11At that time it will be said to these people and to Jerusalem: “A hot wind from the heights will blow in the desert on the tracks of my people. It will not be a wind that winnows or cleanses.
• Jeremiah 23:19The storm of the Lord will come with his anger. Like a windstorm, it will swirl down on the heads of the wicked.
• Jeremiah 25:32“This is what the Lord of Armies says: Disaster is spreading from nation to nation. A great storm is brewing from the distant corners of the earth.”
• Jeremiah 30:23The storm of the Lord will come with his anger. Like a driving wind, it will swirl down on the heads of the wicked.
• Jeremiah 36:19The officials said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah must hide. Don’t let anyone know where you are.”
• Amos 1:14I will set fire to the walls of Rabbah and burn down its palaces while troops are shouting on the day of battle and winds are howling on the day of the storm.
• Nahum 1:3The Lord is patient and has great strength. The Lord will never let the guilty go unpunished. Raging winds and storms mark his path, and clouds are the dust from his feet.

Commentaries on Zechariah 7:14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14I scattered them with a whirlwind - This refers to the swift victories and cruel conduct of the Chaldeans towards the Jews; they came upon them like a whirlwind; they were tossed to and fro, and up and down, everywhere scattered and confounded.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14But I scattered them - Rather, “And I will scatter them.” The saying continues what God had said that he had said, and which had come to pass. Among all nations whom they knew not. So God had repeatedly said by Jeremiah, “I will cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, ye nor your fathers; where I will not show you favor” (Jeremiah 16:13; add Jeremiah 15:14; Jeremiah 17:4). This was the aggravation of the original woe in the law: “The Lord…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-14Verses 8-14 God's judgements upon Israel of old for their sins, were written to warn Christians. The duties required are, not keeping fasts and offering sacrifices, but doing justly and loving mercy, which tend to the public welfare and peace. The law of God lays restraint upon the heart. But they filled their minds with prejudices against the word of God. Nothing is harder than the heart of a presumptuous sinner. See the fatal consequences of this to…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14I scattered them with a whirlwind: God scattered the Hebrew people among many nations. This scattering was one of the curses for breaking the Mosaic covenant (the agreement God made with Israel at Mount Sinai, Deuteronomy 28:36–37, 64). The pleasant land was the land of God's covenant promise (Psalm 106:24; Jeremiah 3:19). Their land became desolate because of God’s judgment. The land was ruined because the people were unfaithful to the covenant and…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. whirlwind--of wrath (Na 1:3). nations whom they knew not--foreign and barbarous. desolate after them--after their expulsion and exile. It was ordered remarkably by God's providence, that no occupants took possession of it, but that during the Jews' absence it was reserved for them against their return after seventy years. they laid ... desolate--The Jews did so by their sins. The blame of their destruction lay with themselves, rather than with the…Read the comment

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• waste, wasted, wasteland, becomes weak

Commentaries on Zechariah 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings