Zechariah 9:11 As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.… 1. The deeper any of the people of God be in trouble, they lie nearer His heart and help: and He would have them look on the comforts of the kingdom of Christ and the covenant, as especially intended for them, therefore doth He apply the general comforts of Christ's kingdom to the distressed Jews. 2. As the afflictions of the Lord's people may be very bitter, and so ordered aa they may be trials indeed; so there will be special notice taken of them when their rods become so insupportable that there is no subsisting under them; for He eyes them, when they are prisoners "in a pit, wherein is no water," as some time they may be. 3. God entering in a covenant with His people, condescends to take in all their outward necessities, and engages to have a care of them in these as well as in things spiritual; and so all their mercies come by covenant; for it is by "the covenant that the prisoners are sent forth." 4. The mercies of the Church are not only rich and refreshful in themselves, and in their original, that they come through a covenant of love, but in their purchase, that they are bought, and the covenant concerning them made sure by the blood of the Son of God. "By the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners." 5. The Lord minds His covenant, and through and for Christ makes the promises of it forthcoming for His people's good, when they have broken it on their part; for, though for their perfidiousness they were scattered, yet the covenant stands to bring them back. (George Hutcheson.) Parallel Verses KJV: As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water. |
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