Zechariah 8:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.

Let us ... I will go also - manifesting zeal and love: converted themselves, they seek the conversion of others (Song of Solomon 1:4, "Draw me, we will run after thee"). To exhortation in general ("Let us go"), they add individual example ("I Will go"), Or, the change from plural to singular implies that the general consent in religious earnestness leads each individual to decide for God.

Go speedily - literally, go, going; implying intense earnestness and persevering determination.

To pray before the Lord - Hebrew, to entreat the face of the Lord (Zechariah 7:2); to entreat His favour and grace.

Zechariah 8:21

21 And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedilyh to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.