25 matching verse commentaries
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt,.... The Targum paraphrases it, "and as I brought them out of the land of Egypt, so will gather their captivity out of Assyria;'' suggesting there would be a likeness between the one and the other. Egypt may denote the state of distance and bondage in which all men are by nature; and the Jews,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he shall pass through the sea with affliction,.... Either the people of the Jews, as Israel of old did, when they came out of Egypt, to which the allusion is; or the wind shall pass through the sea, as Aben Ezra supplies it, and it shall become dry; that is, the river of Egypt: or "affliction" (r), as many supply it, shall pass through the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart away. For the glory of God in the deliverance of his people is sure to be attended by another form of glory in the destruction of his enemies Christ is a sweet saviour unto God...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And I will strengthen them in the Lord,.... Not the Egyptians and Assyrians, but the Jews, as in Zechariah 10:5, the Targum is, "I will strengthen them in the word of the Lord;'' in the Messiah, by his power, and in the grace that is in him; and their faith and hope in him, and love to him: or "by" (t) him; so that, through him strengthening them,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD. This exposition consisted of readings from Zechariah 9, , 10.