Zechariah 8:1-13 ▼

1 And the word of YHWH of Hosts came, saying,

2 thus says YHWH of Hosts: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and with great rage I am jealous for her!”

3 Thus says YHWH: “I will return to Zion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of YHWH of Hosts, the Mountain of Holiness.”

4 Thus says YHWH of Hosts: “Again old men and old women will sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each man with his staff in his hand from an abundance of days.

5 And the streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”

6 Thus says YHWH of Hosts: “If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, will it also in My eyes be marvelous?” An utterance of YHWH of Hosts.

7 Thus says YHWH of Hosts: “Behold, I am going to save My people from the land of the sunrise and from the land of the going in of the sun.

8 And I will bring them in, and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and they will be unto Me as a people, and I will be unto them God, in truth and in righteousness.”

9 Thus says YHWH of Hosts: “Let your? hands be strong, hearing in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets who spoke in the day that the house of YHWH of Hosts was founded to build the temple.

10 For before those days there was not a wage for man or a wage for beast. There was not one going forth and one coming in, nor peace from the enemy, and I sent all mankind—each man—against his neighbor.

11 And now not as in the former days am I to the remnant of this people,” a declaration of YHWH of Hosts.

12 “Because of the sowing of peace, the vine will give her fruit, and the ground will give her increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and to the remnant of this people I will give as an inheritance all these things.

13 And it will come to pass that as you? were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you?, and you? will be a blessing. Do not be afraid; let your? hands be strong.”