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

¹ And the Word of Jehovah of Hosts came to me, saying, ² So says Jehovah of Hosts: I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury. ³ So says Jehovah: I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a City of Truth, and the mountain of Jehovah of Hosts, the Holy Mountain. ⁴ So says Jehovah of Hosts: There shall yet be old men and old women living in the streets of Jerusalem, and each man with his staff in his hand because of their many days. ⁵ And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets. ⁶ So says Jehovah of Hosts: If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, will it also be marvelous in My eyes, says Jehovah of Hosts? ⁷ So says Jehovah of Hosts: Behold, I will save My people from the east country, and from the land of the setting sun. ⁸ And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And they shall be My people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.

⁹ So says Jehovah of Hosts: Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these Words by the mouth of the prophets, that in the day the house of Jehovah of Hosts is founded, the temple is to be built. ¹⁰ For before these days there was no payment for man, nor was there payment for animal; and there was no peace to him from the adversary who went out or came in. For I sent every man, a man against his neighbor. ¹¹ But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days, says Jehovah of Hosts. ¹² For the seed shall be blessed; the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things. ¹³ And it will be, as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Do not fear, but let your hands be strong. ¹⁴ For so says Jehovah of Hosts: As I thought to punish you when your fathers provoked Me to wrath, says Jehovah of Hosts, and I did not repent; ¹⁵ so again I have thought in these days to do well to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Fear not. ¹⁶ These are the things that you shall do. Each man speak the truth to his neighbor. Judge with truth and justice for peace in your gates. ¹⁷ And let each devise no evil in your heart against his neighbor; and love no false oath. For all these are things that I hate, says Jehovah.

¹⁸ And the Word of Jehovah of Hosts came to me, saying, ¹⁹ So says Jehovah of Hosts: The fast of the fourth month, 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 gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace. ²⁰ So says Jehovah of Hosts: There yet shall be peoples and inhabitants of many cities; ²¹ and the residents of one shall go to another, saying, Let us go at once to seek favor of the face of Jehovah, and to seek Jehovah of Hosts; I will go also. ²² And many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek Jehovah of Hosts in Jerusalem and to seek the favor of the face of Jehovah. ²³ So says Jehovah of Hosts: In those days ten men, out of all languages of the nations, shall take hold, and will seize the skirt of a man, a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.

¹ The burden of the Word of Jehovah against the land of Hadrach, and its resting-place, Damascus (when the eye of man, and all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward Jehovah); ² and Hamath also borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, though very wise. ³ And Tyre shall build herself a stronghold, and shall heap up silver like the dust, and gold like the mud of the streets; ⁴ behold, the Lord will cast her out, and He will strike her wealth in the sea, and she shall be burned up with fire. ⁵ Ashkelon shall see and fear; Gaza also shall writhe in great pain; and Ekron shall be ashamed for her hope. And the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited. ⁶ And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. ⁷ And I will take away his bloods out of his mouth, and his idolatries from between his teeth. But the remnant, even he, shall be for our God. And he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron like a Jebusite. ⁸ And I will camp around My house because of an army, because of him who passed by, and because of him who returns. And no tyrant shall pass through them any more. For now I have seen with My eyes.

⁹ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, your King comes to you. He is righteous and victorious, meek and riding on an ass, even on a colt, the son of an ass. ¹⁰ And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem. And the battle bow shall be cut off, and He shall speak peace to the nations; and His dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. ¹¹ You also, by the blood of Your covenant I have freed Your prisoners out of the pit in which is no water. ¹² Turn to the stronghold, prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will return to you double. ¹³ For I have bent Judah for me as a bow; I filled it with Ephraim, and I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and make you as the sword of a mighty man. ¹⁴ And Jehovah shall be seen over them, and His arrow shall go forth like the lightning; and the Lord Jehovah shall blow the ram's horn, and shall go out with the windstorms of the south. ¹⁵ Jehovah of Hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour and trample the slingstones. And they shall drink and be boisterous, as through wine. And they shall be filled like a bowl, and like the corners of the altar. ¹⁶ And Jehovah their God shall save them in that day as the flock of His people; for they are as stones of a crown, lifted up as a banner over His land. ¹⁷ For how great is its goodness and how great its beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.