mercy. compassion.
Zion. See App-68.
the set time. First, the end of the seventy years (Daniel 9:2.Nehemiah 2:17-20; Nehemiah 3:1-32); and second, the still future set time in God's counsels. All this is prophecy. No need to think it was written after Jerusalem's desolation. David was. prophet (Acts 2:30; Acts 2:31). Compare Isaiah 40:2; Isaiah 61:2.