Zechariah 1:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּ֣עַן מַלְאַךְ־יְהוָה֮ וַיֹּאמַר֒ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת עַד־מָתַ֗י אַתָּה֙ לֹֽא־תְרַחֵ֣ם אֶת־יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם וְאֵ֖ת עָרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר זָעַ֔מְתָּה זֶ֖ה שִׁבְעִ֥ים שָׁנָֽה

Transliteration

wayyaʿan malʾaḵ-YHWH wayyōʾmar, "YHWH ṣᵉḇāʾôt, until-when you not-tᵉraḥēm ʾet-yᵉrûšālaim and-ʾēt ʿārê yᵉhûḏāh which zāʿamtā this šiḇᵉʿîm šānāh?"

Grammar Details

• *wayyaʿan*: conjunction *wa* + verb qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with consecutive vav - and he answered
• *malʾaḵ*: noun masculine singular construct - angel/messenger of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD/Yahweh
• *wayyōʾmar*: conjunction *wa* + verb qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with consecutive vav - and he said
• *ṣᵉḇāʾôt*: noun feminine plural construct - of hosts/armies
• *tᵉraḥēm*: verb piel imperfect 2nd masculine singular with negative particle *lōʾ* - you will not have mercy
• *yᵉrûšālaim*: proper noun with direct object marker *ʾet* - Jerusalem
• *ʿārê*: noun feminine plural construct with direct object marker *ʾēt* and conjunction *wᵉ* - and the cities of
• *yᵉhûḏāh*: proper noun - Judah
• *zāʿamtā*: verb qal perfect 2nd masculine singular - you have been indignant/angry
• *šiḇᵉʿîm*: numeral - seventy
• *šānāh*: noun feminine singular - year

Word Meanings

• *malʾaḵ*: angel/messenger
• *ṣᵉḇāʾôt*: hosts/armies/heavenly forces
• *tᵉraḥēm*: have mercy/compassion/pity
• *zāʿamtā*: been indignant/been angry/denounced

Referenced Verses

• Ps 102:13 : 13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
• Jer 29:10 : 10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
• Dan 9:2 : 2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
• Zech 7:5 : 5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
• Ps 74:10 : 10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach{H8762)}? shall the enemy{H8802)} blaspheme{H8762)} thy name for ever?
• Rev 6:10 : 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
• Heb 7:25 : 25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
• Exod 23:20-23 : 20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. 22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. 23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
• 2 Chr 36:21 : 21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
• Ps 69:5 : 5 O God, thou knowest{H8804)} my foolishness; and my sins are not hid{H8738)} from thee.
• Zech 1:8 : 8 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.
• Zech 1:10-11 : 10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth. 11 And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
• Isa 63:9 : 9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
• Isa 64:9-9 : 9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. 10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. 12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
• Jer 25:11-12 : 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.