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Zechariah 8:4
Zechariah 8:4 is verse 4 of Zechariah chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Old men and old women will again sit along the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in hand because of great age.
King James Version
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
World English Bible
Yahweh of Armies says: “Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand because of their old age.
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Zechariah 8:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible
2 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I am jealous for Zion with great zeal; I am jealous for her with great fervor.”
3 This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.”
4 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Old men and old women will again sit along the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in hand because of great age.
5 And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”
6 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “If this is impossible in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be impossible in My eyes?” declares the LORD of Hosts.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Samuel 2:31Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no older man will be left in your house.
Job 5:26You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
Job 42:17And so Job died, old and full of years.
Isaiah 65:20No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
Isaiah 65:21They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Isaiah 65:22No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, and My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.
Lamentations 2:20Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lamentations 2:21Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
Lamentations 2:22You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
Lamentations 5:11Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
Lamentations 5:13Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
Lamentations 5:14The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
Lamentations 5:15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
Hebrews 12:22Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels