Zechariah 8:6
Good News Translation
"This may seem impossible to those of the nation who are now left, but it's not impossible for me.

New Revised Standard Version
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Even though it seems impossible to the remnant of this people in these days, should it also seem impossible to me, says the LORD of hosts?

Contemporary English Version
This may seem impossible for my people who are left, but it isn't impossible for me, the LORD All-Powerful.

New American Bible
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Even if this should seem impossible in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it seem impossible in my eyes also? —oracle of the LORD of hosts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If it seem hard in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days: shall it be hard in my eyes, saith the Lord of hosts?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If it seem hard in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days: shall it be hard in my eyes, saith the Lord of hosts?

marvellous.

Genesis 18:14 Is there any thing hard to God? According to appointment I will return to thee at this same time, life accompanying, and Sara shall have a son.

Numbers 11:22,23 Shall then a multitude of sheep and oxen be killed, that it may suffice for their food? or shall the fishes of the sea be gathered together to fill them? . . .

2 Kings 7:2 Then one of the lords, upon whose hand the king leaned, answering the man of God, said: If the Lord should make flood-gates in heaven, can that possibly be which thou sayest? And he said: Thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

Jeremiah 32:17,27 Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, behold thou hast made heaven and earth by thy great power, and thy stretched out arm: no word shall be hard to thee: . . .

Luke 1:20,37 And behold, thou shalt be dumb and shalt not be able to speak until the day wherein these things shall come to pass: because thou hast not believed my words, which shall be fulfilled in their time. . . .

Luke 18:27 He said to them: The things that are impossible with men are possible with God.

Romans 4:20,21 In the promise also of God he staggered not by distrust: but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God: . . .

Romans 6:19-21 I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity: so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification. . . .

Context
The Restoration of Jerusalem
5And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls, playing in the streets thereof. 6Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If it seem hard in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days: shall it be hard in my eyes, saith the Lord of hosts?7Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will save my people from the land of the east, and from the land of the going down of the sun.…
Cross References
Matthew 19:26
And Jesus beholding, said to them: With men this is impossible: but with God all things are possible.

Genesis 18:14
Is there any thing hard to God? According to appointment I will return to thee at this same time, life accompanying, and Sara shall have a son.

Psalm 118:23
This is the Lord's doing, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

Psalm 126:1
A gradual canticle. When the Lord brought back the captivity of Sion, we became like men comforted.

Jeremiah 32:17
Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, behold thou hast made heaven and earth by thy great power, and thy stretched out arm: no word shall be hard to thee:

Jeremiah 32:27
Behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh: shall any thing be hard for me?

Zechariah 8:5
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