John Trapp on Zechariah 1:13

Verſ. 13. And the Lord anſwered the Angel] How ſhould God do otherwiſe then anſwer his welbeloved Son, with good and comfortable words, ſith he is all in all with the Father, and can do any thing with him? Father, ſaith he,Joh. 12. I know thou heareſt me alwayes. Did God hear Abraham for Iſmael, nay for Sodom? Did David hear Ioab, interceding for Abſolom? Acts 12.20. Did Herod hearken to Blaſtus making requeſt for thoſe of Tyre and Sidon, with whom he was highly diſpleaſed? And ſhall not God give ear to his Son, praying for his people, that are as dear to him as the apple of his eye? Good and comfortable words he doth ſurely anſwer him: ſuch as were once thoſe, Joh. 12.27, 28. when Chriſt had thus prayed; Now is my ſoul troubled, and what ſhall I ſay? Father ſave me from this hour: but for this cauſe came I to this hour. Father, glorifie thy Name. Then came there a voice from heaven (Bath-chol the Rabbins call it) ſaying, I have both glorified it, and will glorifie it again. So, when he ſhall ſay in his daily interceſſion (for he ever liveth to make requeſt for us, at the right hand of the Majeſty on high) It irketh me, that the whole earth is at reſt, and my Church at ſo much unreſt: Return, O Lord, Pſal. 90.13. how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy ſervants. Save now I beſeech thee O Lord:Pſal. 118.25. O Lord I beſeech thee ſend now proſperity. How can God do leſs then anſwer as Iſa. 33.10. Now will I ariſe, now will I be exalted, now will I lift up my ſelf: Or as in the words next following here (which indeed are all along good words and comfortable words) I am jealous for Jeruſalem &c. The Lord ſhall yet comfort Zion, and ſhall yet chuſe Jeruſalem; Yet for all the ſorrow he ſhall do it,Ier. 30.17. and for all that Others called her an outcaſt ſaying, This is Zion, whom no man ſeketh after: and ſhe her ſelf concludeth her dolefull ditty with, Thou haſt utterly rejected us: thou art very wroth againſt us. Lam. 4.22.