Ch 8 / 14~3 min
Zecharyah

Chapter 8

Old Men and Children Fill His Streets

Ten men from every nation clinging to a Yehudi — 'Elohim is with you' — foreshadow Gentiles clinging to Yeshua, the one in whom the fullness of Elohim bodily dwells.

  1. Elohim's Promises for Jerusalem

    Elohim promises to return to Zion with zeal. Old men and women will again sit in Jerusalem's streets.

  2. 1The word of YHWH Tzeva'ot came to me.
  3. 2YHWH Tzeva'ot says: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.”
  4. 3YHWH 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 YHWH Tzeva'ot, ‘The Kodesh Mountain.’”
  5. 4YHWH Tzeva'ot 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.
  6. 5The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”
  7. 6YHWH Tzeva'ot says: “If it is marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvellous in my eyes?” says YHWH Tzeva'ot.
  8. 7YHWH Tzeva'ot says: “Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country.
  9. 8I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be their Elohim, in truth and in righteousness.”
  10. 9YHWH Tzeva'ot says: “Let your hands be strong, you 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 YHWH Tzeva'ot was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.
  11. 10For before those days there was no wages for man nor any wages for an animal, neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbour.
  12. 11But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,” says YHWH Tzeva'ot.
  13. 12“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew. I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
  14. 13It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse amongst the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.”
  15. 14For YHWH Tzeva'ot says: “As I thought to do evil to you when your fathers provoked me to wrath,” says YHWH Tzeva'ot, “and I didn’t repent,
  16. 15so again I have thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don’t be afraid.
  17. 16These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbour. Execute the judgement of truth and peace in your gates,
  18. 17and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbour, and love no false oath; for all these are things that I hate,” says YHWH.
  19. Fasts Become Festivals of Joy

    Fasts will become festivals of joy and gladness. What was mourning will become celebration.

  20. 18The word of YHWH Tzeva'ot came to me.
  21. 19YHWH Tzeva'ot says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”
  22. Nations Seek Adonai in Jerusalem

    Nations will come to Jerusalem to seek Adonai. Ten men will grab the garment of one Yehudi, saying: Elohim is with you.

  23. 20YHWH Tzeva'ot says: “Many peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come.
  24. 21The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, ‘Let’s go speedily to entreat the favour of YHWH, and to seek YHWH Tzeva'ot. I will go also.’
  25. 22Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek YHWH Tzeva'ot in Jerusalem and to entreat the favour of YHWH.”
  26. 23YHWH Tzeva'ot says: “In those days, ten men out of all the languages of the nations will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Yehudi, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that Elohim is with you.’”
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