Zechariah 10:9 - Exposition

I will sow them among the people ( peoples ). The "sowing" here does not mean scattering, but increase, and this was to go on while they were dispersed among the nations. The word is used in the same sense in Hosea 2:23 ; Jeremiah 31:27 . This continued dispersion was a part of their discipline, a test of their loyalty to God. They shall remember me. In the countries where they are living they shall worship the Lord and observe his Law, and be a witness for him among the heathen. They shall live with their children ( Ezekiel 37:14 ). The promised blessing is not for a time only, but perpetual. Turn again; i.e. return to their own land ( Isaiah 35:10 ). It cannot mean, "turn to the Lord," for they are said already to remember the Lord, and their "conversion must precede the promise of life." The next verse describes the return more particularly.