‏ Zechariah 8:14

14For the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says, ‘As I had planned to hurt
tn The verb זָמַם (zamam) usually means “to plot to do evil,” but with a divine subject (as here), and in light of v. 15 where it means to plan good, the meaning here has to be the implementation of discipline (cf. NCV, CEV “punish”). God may bring hurt but its purpose is redemptive and/or pedagogical.
you when your fathers made me angry,’ says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, ‘and I was not sorry,
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