Zechariah 9:14 - Exposition

The Lord shall be seen over them. To encourage the chosen people in the contest, the Lord shall make iris presence manifest as their Leader. His arrow. God's arrows are the judgments which he inflicts upon his enemies, which come forth suddenly as the lightning flash, and cannot be avoided ( Psalms 18:14 ; Habakkuk 3:11 ). Shall blow the trumpet. As the signal of battle and calamity ( Numbers 10:9 ; 7:19 , 7:20 ; Ezekiel 7:14 ; Amos 3:6 ; Zephaniah 1:16 ). Whirlwinds of the south. He shall come upon the enemy and sweep them away with irresistible force. Storms from the south were the most violent, coming from the Arabian desert ( Job 37:9 ; Isaiah 21:1 ; Hosea 13:15 ). Septuagint, πορεύσεται ἐν σάλῳ ἀπειλῆς αὐτοῦ , " He shall go in the surge of his menace."