Zechariah 12:1

The burden See ch. Zechariah 9:1, note.

for Israel Rather, concerning Israel.

saith Rather, the saying, oracular utterance, of Jehovah: as in Psalms 110:1. The clause is in apposition with the first clause of the verse.

which stretcheth forth, &c. In view of the wonderful and almost incredible promises that, follow, an appeal is made to the creative power of Jehovah, that so the people may not "stagger at the promise of God through unbelief," but be "fully persuaded that what He has promised, He is able also to perform."