Zechariah 3:4

Those that stood before him is an expression meaning courtiers and counsellors (1 Kings 13:6); and here, probably, means angels of inferior grade to the “angel of the Lord.”

Thine iniquity — i.e., of thee, and of the people whose representative thou art.

And I will clothe thee. — Better, and I clothe thee. The tense is “the aorist of immediate past.” (Comp. Gr. ἐδεξάμην, “I welcome.”) LXX. change the mood and person, and render καὶ ἐνδύσατε αὐτὸν ποδήρη, “and clothe ye him with a long garment.”

Change of raiment. — The word means simply different garments to the filthy ones in which he was clothed before: clean ones, in fact. (See next verse.) The figure seems to be borrowed from Isaiah 61:10 : “He hath clothed me with garments of salvation, He hath clothed me with a robe of righteousness.” That it does not mean “festal garments” is shown by the ordinary word for “garments” being used in Zechariah 3:5.