Zechariah 6:8

"Then cried he, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, they that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country."

"They have quieted my spirit ..." "Both chariots going to the north have done this: they have put down God's Spirit there. That means they have caused God's anger to cease there."[8] As to how that was accomplished, it resulted from God's severe punishment of the great Babylonian power that had so cruelly treated Israel, along with a reversal of the captivity itself through the efforts of another great power that had succeeded the old Babylon, Cyrus,

Although God's anger had been satisfied by the Judgment against Babylon, "the north country," there were other great powers yet scheduled for judgment and destruction.

Babylon only of the four great world kingdoms had in Zechariah's time been fully punished; therefore, in its case alone does God now say his anger is satisfied. The others had as yet to expiate their sin.[9]

Mitchell also mentioned this as a possible interpretation. "The prophet here again reminds his people of the past, and this time, of their deliverance from the Babylonians by Cyrus."[10] However, he went on to apply it to the future, but we do not think that negates its application to the past also.