Zechariah 8

1The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.

2Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.”Cross-references: Ps 78:58 · Isa 42:13 · Isa 59:17 · Isa 63:4 · Isa 63:15 · Ezek 36:5 · +4 more

3Yahweh 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 Yahweh of Armies, ‘The Holy Mountain.’”Cross-references: Isa 1:21 · Isa 1:26 · Isa 2:2 · Isa 11:9 · Isa 12:6 · Isa 60:14 · +19 more

4Yahweh 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:31 · Job 5:26 · Job 42:17 · Isa 65:20 · Lam 2:20 · Lam 5:11 · +1 more

5The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”Cross-references: Ps 128:3 · Ps 144:12 · Jer 30:19 · Jer 31:13 · Jer 31:27 · Jer 33:11 · +3 more

6Yahweh 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 Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: Gen 18:14 · Num 11:22 · 2Ki 7:2 · Ps 118:23 · Ps 126:1 · Jer 32:17 · +6 more

7Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country.Cross-references: Ps 50:1 · Ps 107:2 · Ps 113:3 · Isa 11:11 · Isa 27:12 · Isa 43:5 · +9 more

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.”Cross-references: Lev 26:12 · Jer 3:17 · Jer 4:2 · Jer 23:8 · Jer 30:22 · Jer 31:1 · +18 more

9Yahweh 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 Yahweh of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.Cross-references: Josh 1:6 · Josh 1:8 · 1Chr 22:13 · 1Chr 28:20 · Ezra 5:1 · Isa 35:4 · +8 more

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.Cross-references: Judg 5:6 · Judg 5:11 · 2Chr 15:5 · Isa 19:2 · Jer 16:16 · Amos 3:6 · +4 more

11But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,” says Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: Ps 103:9 · Isa 11:13 · Isa 12:1 · Hag 2:19 · Zech 8:8 · Mal 3:9

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.Cross-references: Gen 26:12 · Gen 27:28 · Lev 26:4 · Deut 28:4 · Deut 32:2 · Deut 33:13 · +23 more

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.”Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 26:4 · Deut 28:37 · Deut 29:23 · Ruth 4:11 · 1Ki 9:7 · +37 more

14For Yahweh of Armies says: “As I thought to do evil to you when your fathers provoked me to wrath,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I didn’t repent,Cross-references: 2Chr 36:16 · Ps 33:11 · Isa 14:24 · Jer 4:28 · Jer 15:1 · Jer 20:16 · +3 more

15so again I have thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don’t be afraid.Cross-references: Isa 43:1 · Jer 29:11 · Jer 32:42 · Mic 4:10 · Mic 7:18 · Zeph 3:16 · +2 more

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,Cross-references: Lev 19:11 · Deut 10:12 · Deut 11:7 · Ps 15:2 · Prov 12:17 · Prov 12:19 · +17 more

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 Yahweh.Cross-references: Ps 5:5 · Ps 10:3 · Prov 3:29 · Prov 6:14 · Prov 6:16 · Prov 8:13 · +11 more

18The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.

19Yahweh 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.”Cross-references: 2Ki 25:3 · 2Ki 25:25 · Esth 8:17 · Esth 9:22 · Ps 30:11 · Isa 12:1 · +14 more

20Yahweh of Armies says: “Many peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:41 · 1Ki 8:43 · 2Chr 6:32 · Ps 22:27 · Ps 67:1 · Ps 72:17 · +22 more

21The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, ‘Let’s go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Armies. I will go also.’Cross-references: Ps 103:22 · Ps 122:1 · Ps 146:1 · Hos 6:3 · Zech 7:2

22Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of Armies in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of Yahweh.”Cross-references: Isa 25:7 · Isa 55:5 · Isa 60:3 · Isa 66:23 · Jer 4:2 · Mic 4:3 · +5 more

23Yahweh 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.’”Cross-references: Gen 31:7 · Gen 31:41 · Num 10:29 · Num 14:14 · Num 14:22 · Deut 4:6 · +23 more