Zechariah

8 And the word of Yahweh of hosts came saying:

2 Thus saith Yahweh of hosts, I am jealous for Zion with a great jealousy,—Yea with great wrath am I jealous for her.

3 Thus saith Yahweh, I have returned unto Zion And will make my habitation in the midst of Jerusalem,—And Jerusalem shall be called The city of fidelity, And the mountain of Yahweh of hosts The mountain of holiness.

4 Thus saith Yahweh of hosts, Yet shall old men and old women sit in the broadways of Jerusalem,—Yea each one with his staff in his hand for multitude of days:

5 And the broadways of the city shall be full of boys and girls,—playing in the broadways thereof.

6 Thus saith Yahweh of hosts, Because it will be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, In mine own eyes also shall it be marvellous? Demandeth Yahweh of hosts.

7 Thus saith Yahweh of hosts, Behold me! saving my people Out of the land of the dawn,—and Out of the land of the going in of the sun;

8 And I will bring them in, And they shall have their habitation in the midst of Jerusalem,—And shall become my people And I will become their God, In faithfulness and in righteousness.

9 Thus saith Yahweh of hosts, Let your hands be strong, ye who are hearing in these days these words,—from the mouth of the prophets who on the day the house of Yahweh of hosts was founded [foretold] that the temple should be built:—

10 That before those days hire for man could not be obtained, And hire for beast was there none,—And neither to him who went out nor to him who came in was there success by reason of the danger, Yea I let all men loose each one against his neighbour.

11 But now not as in the former days am I to this remnant of the people,—Declareth Yahweh of hosts;

12 For the seed shall be secure—The vine shall yield her fruit and The land yield her increase, and The heavens yield their dew,—And I will cause this remnant of the people to inherit all these things.

13 And it shall come to pass that—Just as ye had become a curse among the nations O house of Judah and house of Israel So will I save you, and ye shall become a blessing,—Do not fear, let your hands be strong.

14 For thus saith Yahweh of hosts, Just as I planned to bring calamity upon you when your fathers provoked me, Saith Yahweh of hosts,—And I relented not

15 So have I again planned in these days, to do good unto Jerusalem and unto the house of Judah,—Do not fear!

16 These are the things which ye shall do: Speak ye the truth every man with his neighbour, Truth and the sentence of peace pronounce ye in your gates;

17 And let no man devise the injury of his neighbour in your heart, And the oath of falsehood do not love,—For all these are things which I hate, Declareth Yahweh.

18 And the word of Yahweh of hosts came unto me saying:

19 Thus saith Yahweh of hosts—The fast of the fourth and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the eleventh shall become to the house of Judah a gladness and a rejoicing, and pleasant appointed meetings,—But truth and peace see that ye love.

20 Thus saith Yahweh of hosts,—It shall yet be that there shall come in peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities;

21 And the inhabitants of one city shall go unto them of another saying, Let us be going on to pacify the face of Yahweh, And to seek Yahweh of hosts,—I also will go!

22 So shall enter many peoples and strong nations, To seek Yahweh of hosts in Jerusalem,—And to pacify the face of Yahweh.

23 Thus saith Yahweh of hosts, In those days [it shall be] that ten men out of all the tongues of the nations shall take hold,—yea take hold of the skirt of every one that is a Jew saying—We will go with you! For we have heard [that] God is with you.