Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
As for thee also--that is, the daughter of Zion," or "Jerusalem" (Zechariah 9:9): the theocracy. The "thee also," in contradistinction to Messiah spoken of in Zechariah 9:10, implies that besides cutting off the battle-bow and extending MESSIAH'S "dominion to the ends of the earth," God would also deliver for her her exiled people from their foreign captivity.
by the blood of thy covenant--that is, according to the covenant vouchsafed to thee on Sinai, and ratified by the blood of sacrifices (Exodus 24:8; Hebrews 9:18-20).
pit wherein . . . no water--Dungeons were often pits without water, miry at the bottom, such as Jeremiah sank in when confined (Genesis 37:24; Jeremiah 38:6). An image of the misery of the Jewish exiles in Egypt, Greece, etc., under the successors of Alexander, especially under Antiochus Epiphanes, who robbed and profaned the temple, slew thousands, and enslaved more. God delivered them by the Maccabees. A type of the future deliverance from their last great persecutor hereafter (Isaiah 51:14; Isaiah 60:1).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Job 33:24
Isaiah 30:1
Isaiah 38:17
Isaiah 45:13
Jeremiah 38:6
Zechariah 8:23
Zechariah 9:12
Hebrews 13:20
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