Zechariah 8:1-Zechariah 9:17 - Yahweh's Promise To Jerusalem

¹ And the word of Jehovah of armies will be, saying, ² Thus said Jehovah of armies: I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy and with great wrath was I jealous for her. ³ Thus said Jehovah: I turned back to Zion, and I dwelt in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem was called, The city of truth; and the mountain of Jehovah of armies, The holy mountain. ⁴ Thus said Jehovah of armies: Yet shall old men and old women sit in the broad places of Jerusalem, and a man his support in his hand from the multitude of days. ⁵ And the broad places of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in her broad places. ⁶ Thus said Jehovah of armies: If it shall be wonderful in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, also shall it be wonderful in mine eyes, says Jehovah of armies: ⁷ Thus said Jehovah of armies: Behold me saving my people from the land of the sun rising, and from the land of the going down of the sun. ⁸ And I brought them, and they dwelt in the midst of Jerusalem: and they were to me for a people, and I will be to them for God, in truth and in justice.

⁹ Thus said Jehovah of armies: Your hands shall be strong, ye bearing in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day the house of Jehovah of armies was founded for the temple to be built ¹⁰ For before these days there was no hire of man, and not any hire of cattle; and to him going out, and to him coming in, no peace from the straits: and I will send all the men each against his neighbor. ¹¹ And now not as the former days am I to the remnant of this people, says Jehovah of armies. ¹² For the seed of peace; the vine shall give her fruit and the earth shall give her produce, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I caused the remnant of this people to inherit all these. ¹³ And it was as ye were a curse in the nations, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so I will save you, and ye were a praise: ye shall not fear; your hands shall be strengthened. ¹⁴ For thus said Jehovah of armies; As I had in mind to do evil to you in your fathers' provoking me to anger, said Jehovah of armies, and, I lamented not ¹⁵ So I turned back.; I had in mind in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: ye shall not fear. ¹⁶ These the words which ye shall do: speak the truth each with his neighbor; truth and the judgment of peace judge ye in your gates. ¹⁷ And ye shall not purpose evil, a man to his neighbor, in your heart; and ye shall not love the oath of falsehood: for all these which I hated, says Jehovah.

¹⁸ And the word of Jehovah of armies will be to me, saying, ¹⁹ Thus said Jehovah of armies: The fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah for joy and for gladness, and for good appointments; and love ye truth and peace. ²⁰ Thus said Jehovah of armies: Yet that peoples shall come, and the inhabitants of many cities: ²¹ And the inhabitants of one went to one, saying, We will go, going to beseech the face of Jehovah, and to seek Jehovah of armies: I will go also. ²² And many peoples and strong nations came to seek Jehovah of armies in Jerusalem, and to beseech the face of Jehovah. ²³ Thus said Jehovah of armies: In those days, that ten men shall take hold from all tongues of the nations, and they took hold of the wing of a man a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we heard God is with you.

¹ The lifting up of the word of Jehovahh in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus its gift: when to Jehovah the eye of man and all the tribes of Israel ² And also Hamath shall be the bound in it; Tyre and Zidon, for it was wise exceedingly. ³ And Tyre will build for herself a fortress, and she will heap up silver as the dust, and gold as the mud of the streets. ⁴ Behold, Jehovah will dispossess her, and he struck her strength in the sea; and she shall be devoured by fire. ⁵ Ashkelon shall see and shall fear; and Gaza, and she shall be greatly pained, and Ekron; for her confidence was ashamed; and the king perished from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited. ⁶ And a foreigner dwelt in Ashdod, and I cut off the pride of the rovers ⁷ And I took away his bloods from his mouth, and his abominable things from between his teeth: and being left he also to our God, and he was a thousand in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite. ⁸ And I encamped at my house a garrison from him passing by, and from him turning back: and he driving shall no more pass through against them: for now I saw with mine eyes.

⁹ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; make a loud noise, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king shall come to thee: just, and saving; he is humble and riding upon an ass, and upon an ass's colt the son of asses. ¹⁰ And I cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war was cut off: and he spake peace to the nations: and his dominion from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the end of the earth. ¹¹ Also thou by the blood of thy covenant I sent forth thy bound ones from the pit no water in it ¹² Turn back to the fortress, ye captives of hope: also announcing this day I will turn back double to thee; ¹³ For I tread out Judah to me, I filled the bow with Ephraim, and I raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and I set thee as the sword of the strong one. ¹⁴ And Jehovah will be seen upon them, and his arrow shall go forth as lightning: and the Lord Jehovah will strike upon the trumpet, and he went with tempests of the south. ¹⁵ Jehovah of armies shall protect over them; and they devoured and subdued with the stones of the sling; and they drank, they made a noise as from wine; and they filled as the vase, as the corners of the altar. ¹⁶ And Jehovah their God saved them in that day as the sheep of his people: for the stones of consecration, lifting themselves up in his land. ¹⁷ For what his good, and what his beauty! Grain shall cause the young men to increase, and new wine the virgins.