John Trapp on Zechariah 12:2

Verſe 2. Behold, I will make Jeruſalem a cup of trembling] Or, ſlumber, or poyſon. A Metaphor taken from a cup of generous wine, but empoyſoned; ſo that thoſe that drink of it, do preſently tremble, grow giddy, ſleepy, ſick as heart can hold. Poyſon in wine works more furiouſly. Thou haſt made us to drink the wine of giddineſſe, ſaith the Church, Pſal. 60.3. In the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red, it is full mixed, &c. The Prophet here ſeems to allude to Jer. 25.15. Eſay 29.8. Jer. 31.7. Ovid ſaith of the river Gallus, that whoſo, drinketh of it runneth mad immediatly. Hierom telleth of a Lake neer Naples, whereinto if a dog be thrown he preſently dieth. The like is reported by Joſephus of the Lake Aſphaltites. Jeruſalem ſhall be a murthering morſell to thoſe that ſwallow it. His meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of aſpes within him. Hee hath ſwallowed down her ſpoil, and he ſhall vomit it up again:Job 20.14, 15 God ſhall rake it out of his belly: He ſhall have as little joy of his tid-bits, of his ſweet draughts, as Jonathan had of his honey: whereof he had no ſooner taſted, but his head was forfeited. Pliny ſpeaketh of a kind of honey that poyſoneth: becauſe it is ſucked out of poyſonous flowers. Our Chronicler telleth us,Speed. 1210. that at Alvelana three miles from Lisbon, many of our Engliſh ſouldiers under the Earl of Eſſex periſhed, by eating of honey, purpoſely left in the houſes, and ſpiced with poyſon. The enemies of the Church make a dangerous adventure, they are even ambitious of deſtruction: they run to meet their bane, as did thoſe Philiſtines at Mizpeh, 1 Sam. 7. And had they but ſo much wit as Pilats wife in a dream, they would take heed of having any thing to do with thoſe juſt men, of eating up Gods people as they eat bread, Pſal. 14.4. of bowſing in the bowles of the Sanctuary with Baltaſar, who fell thereupon into a trembling,Dan. 5.6 ſo that his loyns were looſed, and his knees knockt one againſt another.

when they ſhall be in the ſiege] And ſo about to do their laſt and worſt againſt the Church. The people of Rome was ſaepe praelio victus, nunquam bello, ſaith Florus: they loſt many battles, but were never overcome in a ſet warre: at the laſt, at the long-runne, as they ſay, they cruſhed all their enemies: ſo doth the Church. See Pſal. 129. thorowout: and the ſtory of the Maccabees.