Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 8:3

3 Thus saith the LORD, I am return'd 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 .

I did in anger depart from sinful and incorrigible, and unhumbled Israel, and sent them into a long captivity, and a far distance from my house, but now I am pacified, they punished, and I will be no longer absent from them; I am returned, not by change of place, but by change of my dealings with them.

Literally to my place of antient Residence, where the Temple and City of David stood; spiritually to the Church wheresoever it was humbled in distresses.

Once more, as of old, I will fix my Residence, and afford my Presence there, as 1 Kin. 6.13. and Psal. 68.16. according to promise repeated to my people. Ierusalem shall be my dwelling place.

It shall be, for I will make it, a

City of Truth, her Cit[illegible: 2 letters]ens shall love the Truth and speak it, shall worship me in truth of heart, as well as in the true manner prescribed to them, and they shall inherit the truth of my promises too; much to this, is that of Ezek. 37.23, 24, to the end of the chap.

Either Ierusalem shall be called, The mountain of the Lord of Hosts, or Mount Moriah, on which the Temple was built.

Shall be called, and be the holy mountain, for that the Temple is rebuilt there, and the holy worship of God restored there, impure Idols which were worship'd there by your impure Fathers, and thereby was the Mountain defiled, shall now be cast out and none but▪ the Holy God worship'd in his holy Temple.

Marginal references: Isa. 1.21, 26.