Zechariah 8:4
Zechariah chapter 8 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Thus 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Thus 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Thus 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.
Context
v.3Thus saith Jehovah: I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth; and the mountain of Jehovah of hosts, The holy mountain.
v.4This passage
v.5And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 2:31
Behold, 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 thy house.
- Job 42:17
So Job died, being old and full of days.
- Isaiah 65:20
There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
- Lamentations 2:20
See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Job 5:26
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.
- Lamentations 5:11
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.