Zechariah 8:9-13 ▼

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.”