Verse 9
When the Lord scattered His people like seed among the other peoples of the world, they would remember Him even though they lived far from the Promised Land (cf. John 12:24; 1 Corinthians 15:36). Not only would the Lord remember them (the meaning of Zechariah’s name), but they would remember Him. They and their children would enter into new life and return to the land. Sowing anticipates reaping a harvest and so connotes hope.
". . . even after Israel had been restored to the land after the Babylonian exile, the prospect of a regathered, reunited nation still appeared in Zechariah 10:9-12. The importance of this passage and its late postexilic date should not be lost by those who interpret the promise of the land spiritually or as a temporal blessing which has since been forfeited by a rebellious nation due to her failure to keep her part of the conditional (?) covenant. On the contrary, this hope burned brighter as Israel became more and more hopelessly scattered." [Note: Kaiser, p. 255.]
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