John Trapp on Zechariah 8:14

Verſe 14. As I thought to puniſh you] He had promiſed to make them of a curſe a bleſſing, and here he ſhews them the cauſe of this change, namely, Gods better thoughts of them, and toward them, upon their return unto him. And becauſe they might haply think that their Fathers had hard meaſure; he tels them that their paniſhment was the fruit of their provocation. And whereas they might expect that God ſhould repent and relent toward them, He ſhewes here that He had repented ſo long, that He was even weary with repenting: and that he therefore. Jer 15.6. Crudelem [illegible: 1 letter]medicum intemperans ager facit. Mimus. as implacable, becauſe he found them incurable. Hence he reſolved as Ezek. 24.13. and would not be altered. Lo thou far theſe Jews had ſound and felt Gods fingers: and that in his menaces he had been as good as his word.