Zechariah 8:4

Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Old men and old women will again sit in the streets (public places) of Jerusalem, each man with his staff in his hand because of his advanced age.

1 Samuel 2:31

Behold, the time is coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.

Job 5:26


“You will come to your grave in old age,
Like the stacking of grain [on the threshing floor] in its season.

Job 42:17

So Job died, an old man and full of days.

Isaiah 65:20-22


“No longer shall there be in it an infant who lives only a few days,
Or an old man who does not finish his days;
For the youth who dies at the age of a hundred,
And the one who does not reach the age of a hundred
Will be thought of as accursed.

Lamentations 2:20-22


See, O Lord, and look!
With whom have You dealt this way?
Should women eat their offspring,
The little ones who were born healthy and beautiful?
Should priest and prophet be killed
In the sanctuary of the Lord?

Lamentations 5:11-15


They ravished the women in Zion,
The virgins in the cities of Judah.

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels [in festive gathering],

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Summary

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

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Bible References

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1 Samuel 2:31
Behold, the time is coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.
Job 5:26

“You will come to your grave in old age,
Like the stacking of grain [on the threshing floor] in its season.
Job 42:17
So Job died, an old man and full of days.
Isaiah 65:20

“No longer shall there be in it an infant who lives only a few days,
Or an old man who does not finish his days;
For the youth who dies at the age of a hundred,
And the one who does not reach the age of a hundred
Will be thought of as accursed.
Lamentations 2:20

See, O Lord, and look!
With whom have You dealt this way?
Should women eat their offspring,
The little ones who were born healthy and beautiful?
Should priest and prophet be killed
In the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lamentations 5:11

They ravished the women in Zion,
The virgins in the cities of Judah.
Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels [in festive gathering],

General references

Jeremiah 31:24
And [the people of] Judah and all its cities will live there together—the farmer and they who wander about with flocks.