9 The phrase thus has said Yahweh of hosts has appeared five times in the previous seven verses, delineating five smaller units that function together rhetorically to offer a divine salvific promise of return of both Yahweh and his people to the city of Jerusalem. Zechariah 8:9, however, begins with the last such phrase (thus has said Yahweh of hosts) until 8:14, where the discourse returns to its original argument, left off after 7:14. The divine speech begins with the encouragement formula may