Zechariah 8
World English Bible (WEB) • 23 verses
1The word of the LORD of Armies came to me.
2The LORD of Armies says: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.”
3The LORD says: “I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the middle of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called ‘The City of Truth;’ and the mountain of the LORD of Armies, ‘The Holy Mountain.’”
RelatedJohn 1:14 · Zechariah 1:16 · Isaiah 1:26 · Isaiah 66:20 · Revelation 21:3 · Ephesians 2:21-22
4The LORD of Armies says: “Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand because of their old age.
RelatedIsaiah 65:20-22 · Job 42:17 · 1 Samuel 2:31 · Job 5:26 · Lamentations 5:11-15 · Hebrews 12:22
5The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”
RelatedJeremiah 31:13 · Jeremiah 30:19-20 · Matthew 11:16-17 · Psalms 144:12-15 · Lamentations 2:19 · Jeremiah 31:27
6The LORD of Armies says: “If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?” says the LORD of Armies.
7The LORD of Armies says: “Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country.
8I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.”
RelatedEzekiel 36:28 · Ezekiel 11:20 · Jeremiah 31:33 · Revelation 21:3 · Jeremiah 4:2 · Revelation 21:7
9The LORD of Armies says: “Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.
10For before those days there was no wages for man nor any wages for an animal, neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbor.
11But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,” says the LORD of Armies.
12“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew. I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
RelatedLeviticus 26:4-5 · Deuteronomy 33:13 · Genesis 27:28 · Matthew 6:33 · Ezekiel 34:26-27 · Zechariah 8:6
13It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.”
Related1 Corinthians 16:13 · Genesis 12:2-3 · Psalms 72:17 · Zechariah 8:9 · Zephaniah 3:20 · Ezekiel 5:15
14For the LORD of Armies says: “As I thought to do evil to you when your fathers provoked me to wrath,” says the LORD of Armies, “and I didn’t repent,
RelatedEzekiel 24:14 · Jeremiah 31:28 · Jeremiah 4:28 · Psalms 33:11 · Isaiah 14:24 · Jeremiah 15:1-6
15so again I have thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don’t be afraid.
RelatedZechariah 8:13 · Micah 7:18-20 · Luke 12:32 · Jeremiah 32:42 · Micah 4:10-13 · Jeremiah 29:11-14
16These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
RelatedEphesians 4:25 · Zechariah 7:9 · Psalms 15:2 · Deuteronomy 10:12-13 · Luke 3:8-14 · Isaiah 9:7
17and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath; for all these are things that I hate,” says the LORD.
18The word of the LORD of Armies came to me.
19The LORD of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”
RelatedJeremiah 39:2 · Zechariah 8:16 · Zechariah 7:3 · Zechariah 7:5 · 2 Kings 25:25 · Jeremiah 52:4
20The LORD of Armies says: “Many peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come.
21The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, ‘Let’s go speedily to entreat the favor of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of Armies. I will go also.’
22Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the LORD of Armies in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD.”
RelatedZechariah 8:21 · Revelation 15:4 · Isaiah 60:3-22 · Isaiah 25:7 · Revelation 21:24 · Galatians 3:8
23The LORD of Armies says: “In those days, ten men out of all the languages of the nations will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
RelatedIsaiah 55:5 · Isaiah 45:14 · 1 Corinthians 14:25 · Isaiah 60:3 · Acts 13:47-48 · Joshua 2:9-13
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