Zechariah:8

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* And the word of LORD of hosts came [to me ], saying , * Thus says LORD of hosts : I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy , and I am jealous for her with great wrath . * Thus says LORD : 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 LORD of hosts , The holy mountain . * Thus says LORD 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 . * And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets of it . * Thus says LORD of hosts : If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days , should it also be marvelous in my eyes ? says LORD of hosts . * Thus says LORD of hosts : Behold , I will save my people from the east country , and from the west country . * 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 . * Thus says LORD of hosts : Let your hands be strong , ye who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of LORD of hosts was laid , even the temple , that it might * For before those days there was no wage for man , nor any wage for beast , nor was there any peace to him who went out or came in , because of the adversary . For I set all men each one against his neighbor . * But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days , says LORD of hosts . * 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 . * And it shall come to pass that , as ye were a curse among the nations , O house of Judah and house of Israel , so I will save you , and ye shall be a blessing . Fear not . Let your hands be strong . * For thus says LORD of hosts : As I thought to do evil to you , when your fathers provoked me to wrath , says LORD of hosts , and I did not relent , * so again I have thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah . Fear ye not . * These are the things that ye shall do : Speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor . Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates . * 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 LORD . * And the word of LORD of hosts came to me , saying , * Thus says LORD 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 * Thus says LORD of hosts : Peoples shall yet come , and the inhabitants of many cities . * And the inhabitants of one [city ] shall go to another , saying , Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of LORD , and to seek LORD of hosts . I will go also . * Yea , many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek LORD of hosts in Jerusalem , and to entreat the favor of LORD . * Thus says LORD of hosts : In those days , ten men shall take hold , out of all the languages of the nations , they shall take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew , saying , We will go with you , for we have heard that God is with you .

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