Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 8:2

2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I was jealous for Zion with great jealousie , and I was jealous for her with great fury .

I have been in time past in dayes of old before the captivity, and I have been so since the captivity for some years past.

Properly 'tis the Passion of a Lover or Husband, mixt 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 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.

On her behalf, and not as formerly against her, I am jealous in favour to her (as the Heb. phrase importeth)

With heat of Anger against her Enemies, as chap. 1.14, 15. which see.