KJV 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.
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Zechariah 8:4
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.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB 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.
WEB World English Bible
Thus says Yahweh of Armies: “Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
ASV American Standard Version
Thus saith Jehovah 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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Again dwell do old men and old women, In broad places of Jerusalem, And each his staff in his hand, Because of abundance of days.
Surrounding context — Zechariah 8
1 Again the word of the LORD of hosts came [to me], saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.
3 Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
4 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.
5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
6 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.
7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
כֹּ֤הH3541 · kohthusאָמַר֙H559 · a.marto sayיְהוָ֣הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDצְבָא֔וֹתH6635 · tsa.vaarmyעֹ֤דH5750 · odstillיֵֽשְׁבוּ֙H3427 · ya.shavto dwellזְקֵנִ֣יםH2205 · za.qenold: elderוּזְקֵנ֔וֹתH2205 · za.qenold: elderבִּרְחֹב֖וֹתH7339 · re.chovstreet/plazaיְרוּשָׁלִָ֑םH3389 · ye.ru.sha.laimJerusalemוְאִ֧ישׁH376 · ishmanמִשְׁעַנְתּ֛וֹH4938 · mish.e.nahsupportבְּיָד֖וֹH3027 · yadhandמֵרֹ֥בH7230 · rovabundanceיָמִֽים׃H3117 · yomday
Cross-references
Isaiah 65:20-22There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner [being] an hundred years old shall be accursed.Job 42:17So Job died, [being] old and full of days.Hebrews 12:22But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,Job 5:26Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.1 Samuel 2:31Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.Lamentations 5:11-15They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.Lamentations 2:20-22Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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