Zech 8
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And the word of YHWH of hosts came [to me], saying,
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Thus says YHWH of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous
for her with great anger.
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Thus says YHWH: I am returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and
Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth; and the mountain of YHWH of hosts, The
holy mountain.
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Thus says YHWH of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets
of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
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And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets
thereof.
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Thus says YHWH of hosts: If it be marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people
in those days, should it also be marvelous in mine eyes? says YHWH of hosts.
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Thus says YHWH of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and
from the west country;
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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.
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Thus says YHWH of hosts: Let your hands be strong, you that hear in these days these
words from the mouth of the prophets that were in the day that the foundation of the
house of YHWH of hosts was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.
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For before those days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was
there any peace to him whom went out or came in, because of the adversary: for I set
all men every one against his neighbor.
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But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days, says YHWH
of hosts.
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For [there shall be] the seed of peace; 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 inherit all these things.
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And it shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, O house of
Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Fear not,
[but] let your hands be strong.
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For thus says YHWH of hosts: As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked
me to anger, says YHWH of hosts, and I repented not;
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so again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of
Judah: fear you not.
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These are the things that you shall do: speak you every man the truth with his neighbor;
execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates;
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and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false
oath: for all these are things that I hate, says YHWH.
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And the word of YHWH of hosts came to me, saying,
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Thus says YHWH 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
joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love truth and peace.
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Thus says YHWH of hosts: [It shall] yet [come to pass], that there shall come peoples,
and the inhabitants of many cities;
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and the inhabitants of one [city] shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily
to entreat the favor of YHWH, and to seek YHWH of hosts: I will go also.
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Yea, many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek YHWH of hosts in Jerusalem,
and to entreat the favor of YHWH.
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Thus says YHWH of hosts: In those days [it shall come to pass], that ten men shall
take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they shall take hold of the skirt
of him whom is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with
you.