Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the public squares of the city will be filled [with] boys and girls playing in its public squares.'
New American Standard Bible
And the
King James Version
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
Holman Bible
The streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in them.”
International Standard Version
The city parks will be filled with boys and girls. They will play in the city's open parks.'
A Conservative Version
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets of it.
American Standard Version
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
Amplified
And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.’
Bible in Basic English
And the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its open spaces.
Darby Translation
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
Julia Smith Translation
And the broad places of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in her broad places.
King James 2000
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.
Modern King James verseion
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the streets of the city shall be filled with boys and wenches playing in the streets thereof.
NET Bible
And the streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing.
New Heart English Bible
The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets."
The Emphasized Bible
And, the broadways of the city, shall be full of boys and girls, - playing in the broadways thereof.
Webster
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.
World English Bible
The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets."
Youngs Literal Translation
And broad places of the city are full of boys and girls, Playing in its broad places.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Zechariah 8:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh's Promise To Jerusalem
4 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Old men and old women shall again sit in the public squares of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand {because of great age}. 5 And the public squares of the city will be filled [with] boys and girls playing in its public squares.' 6 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: '[Even] if it seems impossible {to the remnant} of this people in those days, should it also seem impossible {to me}?' {declares} Yahweh of hosts.
Cross References
Jeremiah 30:19-20
And thanksgiving and [the] sound of merrymakers will come out from them, and I will make them numerous, and they will not be few. And I will make them honored, and they will not be lowly.
Psalm 128:3-4
Your wife [will be] like a fruitful vine {within} your house. Your children [will be] like olive shoots about your table.
Psalm 144:12-15
that our sons [may be] like plants, full grown in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars, carved in the style of a palace,
Jeremiah 31:13
"Then [the] young woman will rejoice in [the] dancing in a ring, and [the] young men and [the] old men together. And I will turn their mourning to jubilation, and I will comfort them, and I will gladden them from their sorrow.
Jeremiah 31:27
"Look, [the] days [are] coming," {declares} Yahweh, "and I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah [with the] seed of humankind, and [with the] seed of animals.
Jeremiah 33:11
[the] voice of jubilation, and [the] voice of joy, [the] voice of [the] bridegroom, and [the] voice of [the] bride, [the] voices of [those who] say, "Praise Yahweh of hosts, for Yahweh [is] good, for his loyal love [is] {forever}," [the voices of those who] bring thank offerings [to] the house of Yahweh, for I will restore the fortunes of the land as in the beginning,' says Yahweh.
Lamentations 2:19
"Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches; pour out your heart like water, before the face of the Lord. Lift to him your hands, for the life of your children, who faint in starvation, at the head of all streets."
Zechariah 2:4
And he said to him, "Run, say to that young man, 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited {like villages without walls} because of the multitude of people and animals in its midst.
Matthew 11:16-17
"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,