Zakharia 10:1
Konteks10:1 Ask the Lord for rain in the season of the late spring rains 1 – the Lord who causes thunderstorms – and he will give everyone showers of rain and green growth in the field.
Zakharia 14:7
Konteks14:7 It will happen in one day (a day known to the Lord); not in the day or the night, but in the evening there will be light. 2
[10:1] 1 tn Heb “the latter rain.” This expression refers to the last concentration of heavy rainfall in the spring of the year in Palestine, about March or April. Metaphorically and eschatologically (as here) the “latter rain” speaks of God’s outpouring of blessing in the end times (cf. Hos 6:3; Joel 2:21-25).
[14:7] 2 sn In the evening there will be light. The normal pattern is that light breaks through in the morning (Gen 1:3) but in the day of the