Albert Barnes Commentary Zechariah 1:17

"Cry yet again, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: My cities shall yet overflow with prosperity; and Jehovah shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem." — Zechariah 1:17 (ASV)

Cry yet - A further promise: not only would Jerusalem be rebuilt, but it would, as we say, overflow with good. God, who had seemed to cast off His people, would still comfort her and would demonstrate that He had chosen her. “love.” (In all the cases that Gesenius cites as meaning “love” (Genesis 6:2; 1 Samuel 20:30; 2 Samuel 15:15; Proverbs 1:29; Proverbs 3:31; Isaiah 1:29), the sense would be injured by rendering it “loved”.)

Zechariah thrice repeats the promise given through Isaiah (Isaiah 14:1) to Jerusalem before her devastation by the Chaldeans, reminding the people by this that the restoration, in the dawn of which they lived, had been promised two centuries before.

Yet, against all appearances. My cities shall overflow with good, as being God’s; yet would the Lord comfort Zion; yet would He choose Jerusalem.

Osorius: “What is the highest of all goods? What the sweetest solace in life? What the subject of joys? What the oblivion of past sorrow? It is that which the Son of God brought upon earth when He illuminated Jerusalem with the brightness of His light and heavenly discipline. For the city was restored for that purpose, so that in it, by the ordinance of Christ, for calamity, bliss would abound; for desolation, fullness; for sorrow, joy; for want, an affluence of heavenly goods.”

Since this first vision predicted the entire restoration, the details of that restoration are given in subsequent visions.