The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Zechariah 8:5 in context
Zechariah 8:2–8
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The LORD of Armies says: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.”
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The LORD says: “I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the middle of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called ‘The City of Truth;’ and the mountain of the LORD of Armies, ‘The Holy Mountain.’”
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The LORD 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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Selected verse
The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”
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The LORD of Armies says: “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 the LORD of Armies.
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The LORD of Armies says: “Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country.
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I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.”
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