John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 8:7
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold ,.... As being something wonderful, of great importance, and deserving attention: I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country ; this can not be understood of bringing those Jews that remained in Babylon, and other places, to their own land, for Babylon lay north of Judea; see Zechariah 6:6 , and as yet there were no Jews in the western part of the world; but now they are chiefly in the east and west, from whence they will... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Zechariah 8:1-8
The prophet, in his foregoing discourses, had left his hearers under a high charge of guilt and a deep sense of wrath; he had left them in a melancholy view of the desolations of their pleasant land, which was the effect of their fathers? disobedience; but because he designed to bring them to repentance, not to drive them to despair, he here sets before them the great things God had in store for them, encouraging them hereby to hope that their case of conscience would shortly determine itself... read more