The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Zechariah 08
1 The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.
2 Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous
for Zion with great jealousy, and I am
jealous for her with great wrath.”
3 Yahweh 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.
4 Yahweh 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.
5 The streets ofthe city will be full of boys
and girls playing in its streets.”
6 Yahweh 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.
7 Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I will
save my people from the east country and
from the west country.
8 I 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.”
9 Yahweh 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.
10 For 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.
11 But now I will not be to the remnant
of this people as in the former days,” says
Yahweh of Armies.
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.
13 It 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.”
14 For Yahweh of Armies says: “As I
thoughtto do evilto you whenyour fathers
provoked me to wrath,” says Yahweh of
Armies, “and I didn’t repent,
15 so again I have thought in these days
to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of
Judah. Don’t be afraid.
16 These 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,
17 and 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.
18 The word of Yahweh of Armies came
to me.
19 Yahweh 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.”
20 Yahweh of Armies says:
“Many peoples and the inhabitants
of many cities will yet come.
21 The 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.
22 Yes, many peoples and strong nations
will come to seek Yahweh of Armies in
Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of Yahweh.
23 Yahwehof Armies says: “Inthose 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.’ ”