Zechariah 1:12: "Then the angel of Jehovah answered and said, O Jehovah of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah…?": the angel interceding with YHWH, not speaking as him. In Zechariah 3:1–2 the same figure presides as Joshua the high priest stands accused and Satan is rebuked. This page keeps these texts beside the identity texts on purpose: the catalog never overclaims, and any reading of the figure must carry the distinction data as fully as the identity data.
A nineteenth-century commentary held the same tension without resolving it:
The attendant angels report to the Lord of angels, "the earth . . . is at rest." The flourishing state of the heathen "earth," while Judah was desolate and its temple not yet restored, is the powerful plea in the Divine Angel's intercession with God the Father in Zec 1:12. — Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871), on Zechariah 1:11
Even a commentator who calls him "the Divine Angel" still narrates him interceding with the Father: the distinction data, kept in full view. Sources: ASV text (PD); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown (PD) on Zechariah 1:11; MannaFest's research index and its "honest counterweight" discipline.
