Zechariah 8:4
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4 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of their great age.(A)
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Isaiah 65:20-22
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20 No more shall there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days
or an old person who does not live out a lifetime,
for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth,
and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed.(A)
21 They shall build houses and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.(B)
22 They shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat,
for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.(C)
Hebrews 12:22
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22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,(A)
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Lamentations 5:11-15
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11 Women are raped in Zion,
young women in the towns of Judah.(A)
12 Princes are hung up by their hands;
no respect is shown to the elders.(B)
13 Young men are compelled to grind,
and boys stagger under loads of wood.(C)
14 The old men have left the city gate,
the young men their music.
15 The joy of our hearts has ceased;
our dancing has been turned to mourning.(D)
Lamentations 2:20-22
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20 Look, O Lord, and consider!
To whom have you done this?
Should women eat their offspring,
the children they have borne?
Should priest and prophet be killed
in the sanctuary of the Lord?(A)
21 The young and the old are lying
on the ground in the streets;
my young women and my young men
have fallen by the sword;
in the day of your anger you have killed them,
slaughtering without mercy.(B)
22 You invited my enemies from all around
as if for a day of festival;
and on the day of the anger of the Lord,
no one escaped or survived;
those whom I bore and reared,
my enemy has destroyed.(C)
Job 42:17
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17 And Job died, old and full of days.(A)
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Job 5:26
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26 You shall come to your grave in ripe old age,
as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.(A)
1 Samuel 2:31
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31 See, a time is coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your ancestor’s family.[a](A)
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- 2.31–32 Q ms Gk: MT adds so that no one in your family will live to old age.
Then in a distressed place you will look upon all the prosperity of Israel. No one
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