Zechariah 8:7-23 ▼

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.”

14 For thus says YHWH of Hosts: “As I purposed to bring disaster upon you? when your? fathers provoked Me to wrath, says YHWH of Hosts, and I would not relent,

15 so again I have purposed in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Do not fear!

16 These are the things that you? will do: Speak the truth, every man with his neighbor; in truth and judgment of peace render judgment in your? gates;

17 and each man, you? shall not devise evil against a neighbor in your? heart, and an oath of deception you? shall not love, for all these are that which I hate,” a declaration of YHWH.

18 And the word of YHWH of Hosts came to me, saying:

19 “Thus says YHWH of Hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, will be for the house of Judah as joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. And love the truth and the peace.”

20 Thus says YHWH of Hosts: “Yet that peoples will come, and dwellers of many cities.

21 And will go those dwelling in one to one, saying, ‘Let us go at once to ask for favor before the face of YHWH, and to seek YHWH of Hosts; I will go—even I.’

22 And will come many peoples and strong nations to seek YHWH of Hosts in Jerusalem, and to ask for favor before the face of YHWH.”

23 Thus says YHWH of Hosts: “In those days, will take hold ten men from every language of the nations, and they will take hold on the sleeve of a man, a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you?, for we have heard that God is with you?.’”