Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
Ver. 3. I am returned unto Zion] After a long absence, as it may seem by the late troubles, and that dismal dispersion, Zechariah 7:14. God was gone aside and returned to his place, till they should acknowledge their offence and seek his face: In their affliction, said he, they will seek me early. Neither was he frustrated, as appeareth, Hosea 5:15; cf. Hosea 6:1. Come, and let us return unto the Lord, say they. Do so, and then I will come again unto you as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth, with a cornucopia of peace, plenty, and prosperity. Neither this only will I do as a stranger in the land, or as a wayfaring man, that tarrieth for a night,
But I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem] My shechinah, or settled habitation, shall be in the midst of it, sc. in my temple there situated, Jeremiah 14:8. Maimonides saith, that the Hebrew word here used signifieth continuationem stationis, a sure and settled abode; such as was that of the Godhead of Christ in his manhood. "For the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us," εσκηνωσεν. The word seems to be made of this Shacan in the text.
And Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth] A faithful city, Isaiah 1:26. A Verona rightly so called; a place where the sincere service of the true God is set up and practised; in opposition to other cities (such as Athens was, wholly given to idolatry, Acts 17:16, κατειδωλον), that went a whoring after lying vanities, and so forsook their own mercies, Job 2:8 .
And the mountain of the Lord of hosts the holy mountain] This and the former clause may safely and fitly be extended to the holy Catholic Church of the New Testament also; whereof Jerusalem and the mount Moriah, whereon the temple stood, were figures. The Rabbis themselves expect the good things here promised to be performed when their Messiah shall come, quem tantis ululatibus exposcunt.