John Trapp on Zechariah 9:1

CHAP. IX.

Verſe 1. THE burden] i. e. the bitter and burdenſome Prophecy. See the Note on Mal. 1.1.

In the land of Hadrach] Better; on the land of Hadrach: whereby is meant,Becauſe Meſſiah is chad ſharp to the Nations, but rach gentle to the Iſraelites. not thy land O Immanuel, or, O Meſſiah (as Hierom, after Rabbi Benaiah) nor a countrey that is neer, or lying round about another countrey, as Junius and Danaeus expound the Syrian word. But either a province, or a city, of ſome Note in Syria, not fat from Damaſcus: Diodate maketh it to be an Idoll of the Syrians; which repreſented the Sunne: from which the countrey took its name, as Eſay 8. 8. Jer. 48.46. Hoſ. 10.5.

and Damaſcus] The Metropolis of Syria, built ſay ſome, in the place where Cain ſlew Abel; and therehence called Dameſech, or a bag of blood; a great ſcourge to Iſrael, chiefly famous for Saint Pauls converſion there, and his rapture into the third heaven, during that three-dayes darkneſſe, Act, 9.9. with 2 Cor. 12.2.

ſhall be the reſt thereof] ſc. of that bitter burden which ſhall here abide, and be ſet upon its own baſe, as chap. 5.11. See a like expreſſion, Joh. 3.36. the wrath of God abideth upon an unbeleever, tanquam trabali clavo fixa: he can neither avert nor avoid it.

when the eyes of man, &c.] That is, of other men the Gentiles alſo, who as yet are carnall and walk as men, ſhall be toward the Lord, lifted up in prayer, and confident expectation of mercy. See Pſal. 122.2.