Zechariah 8:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I was; I have been in time past, in days of old before the captivity, and I have been so since the captivity for some years past. Jealous for Zion: properly it is the passion of a lover or husband, mixed of love, care, and anger in their highest degrees for the beloved, and against all that is hurtful to it; so God had greatly loved Zion, had been careful of her honour and welfare, and displeased with her sins, which first hurt her, and then with the Chaldeans, which violated her. With great jealousy; with great care that she should not, as formerly, sin against my love and her own welfare, and with a great love to do her good now, and to rescue her from her enemies. I was jealous for her; on her behalf, and not as formerly against her, I am jealous in favour to her, as the Hebrew phrase importeth. With great fury; with heat of anger against her enemies, as Malachi 1:14,15, See Poole on "Malachi 1:14", See Poole on "Malachi 1:15".