Zaccaria 14:8

La Riveduta Bibbia

E in quel giorno avverrà che delle acque vive usciranno da Gerusalemme; metà delle quali volgerà verso il mare orientale, e metà verso il mare occidentale, tanto d’estate quanto d’inverno.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
In quel giorno avverr che da Gerusalemme, usciranno acque vive: met di esse andr verso il mare orientale, e met verso il mare occidentale; sar cos tanto destate che dinverno. Il regno universale del Messia

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
E in quel giorno avverrà che delle acque vive usciranno di Gerusalemme; la metà delle quali trarrà verso il mare orientale, e l’altra metà verso il mare occidentale; e quelle dureranno state, e verno.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

living: Ezekiel 47:1-12, Joel 3:18, Luke 24:47, John 4:10, John 4:14, John 7:38, Revelation 22:1, Revelation 22:2, Revelation 22:17

former: or, eastern, Joel 2:20

in summer: Isaiah 35:7, Isaiah 41:17, Isaiah 41:18, Isaiah 49:10, Isaiah 58:11, Revelation 7:16, Revelation 7:17

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:7 - them that 2 Kings 5:12 - better 2 Kings 5:14 - went he down Isaiah 35:6 - for Daniel 2:35 - and filled Daniel 11:45 - between Micah 4:2 - for Micah 5:7 - as a dew Habakkuk 2:14 - the earth Zechariah 12:3 - in that Luke 14:23 - Go John 5:4 - was made 1 Corinthians 14:36 - came

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall be in that day, [that] living waters shall go out from Jerusalem,.... When it shall be light; and this is one of the things which will make it so; for by "living waters" are meant the Gospel, and the doctrines of it; compared to running "waters" for the sound of them, which will then go into all the earth; for the swiftness in which they shall proceed; for their rapidity and force in bearing all before them; for the great spread of them; and for their virtue and efficacy in cooling those who are inflamed with the fiery law; refreshing thirsty souls; purifying the hearts and lives of sinners, and making those that are barren fruitful: and to "living" waters, because they are the means of quickening dead sinners, and of reviving drooping saints; and because they serve to support and maintain a spiritual life, and nourish up unto eternal life, and direct the way to it, as well as give the best account of it: and these will come out of Jerusalem; which may design Jerusalem literally, which will be rebuilt at the time of the Jews' conversion; or mystically the church, the spiritual and heavenly Jerusalem; see Hebrews 12:22 reference seems to be had to the first ministration of the Gospel, which, according to prophecy, came out of Jerusalem, Isaiah 2:3.

Half of them towards the former sea; or the eastern sea, as the Targum, the Persian sea; and may signify that the Gospel shall be carried into the eastern parts of the world, into Persia, Tartary, and China, and other nations; and those great kingdoms shall become the kingdoms of Christ:

and half of them toward the hinder sea; or the western sea, as the Targum, the Mediterranean Sea; and may denote the progress and success of the Gospel in the European parts of the world: and the meaning of the whole is, that the Gospel shall be carried from east to west, and preached all the world over, to the conversion of Jews and Gentiles, who, some think, are designed by the two seas; when the abundance of the sea shall be converted by it, and the forces and fulness of the Gentiles brought in, and all Israel saved:

in summer and in winter shall it be; there will be no summer of persecution, nor winter of coldness and indifference to hinder the ministry of the word: the phrase denotes the constant ministry of the word, and the duration of it; it shall be constantly preached all the year long, and as long as summer and winter last.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And it shall be, that living waters - Kimchi: “This is what is said in the prophecy of Joel, ‘A fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord’ Joel 3:18; and in that of Ezekiel, ‘And behold there ran out waters.’ Ezekiel 47:2.” Zechariah leaves to the mind to supply what the former prophets had said of the fertilizing life-giving character of those waters. He adds that they should pervade the whole land, west as well as east; “to the former,” rather “the Eastern Sea” , into which they would by nature flow, and toward “the hinder,” that is, the Western Sea, the Mediterranean, which natural waters could not “reach.” This their flow, he adds, should be perpetual , “These streams shall not dry up and their waters shall not fail”; therefore drought shall not lessen them, nor winter-cold bind them. “From Jerusalem as from a fountain shall stream forth living waters of wisdom and grace to all nations” .

Cyril: “Again he tells us, under a figure, that exceeding great and large shall be that outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the saints, especially when they shall be removed to that holy eternal life in the world to come. For now through faith in Christ we are enriched, as with an earnest, with the firstfruits of the Holy Spirit. But after the Resurrection, sin being wholly taken away, the Holy Spirit will be in us, not as an earnest or in a measure; but richly bounteously and perfectly shall we enjoy the grace through Christ. He calleth, then, ‘living water,’ the Spirit which, he says, will come forth from the Jerusalem which is from above. But that the Holy Scripture is accustomed to liken the Divine Spirit to ‘water,’ the Giver thereof, the Son, accredits, saying, ‘he that believeth on Me, as the Scripture hath said, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water’ John 7:38. This the Evangelist explains, ‘This spake He of the Spirit, which they who believe in Him should receive’ John 7:39. Since then the Spirit is life-giving, rightly does he liken it to that, which is life-giving to the frame.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 14:8. Living waters shall go out — There shall be a wide diffusion of Divine knowledge, and of the plan of human salvation, which shall go out by apostles and preachers, first from Jerusalem, then to Syria, Asia Minor, Greece, Italy, the isles of the sea, Britain, c.

The former sea, and - the hinder sea — The Dead Sea and the Mediterranean see on Joel 2:20. These are metaphors.

In summer — In time of drought; or in the countries where there was no knowledge of God, there shall these waters flow. The stream shall never cease; it shall run in summer as well as winter. These are living waters - perennial, incessant, and waters that shall preserve life. See John 7:37.