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14 For thus says Yahweh of hosts: “Just as I planned to bring disaster[a] on you when your ancestors[b] provoked me to anger,” says Yahweh of hosts, “and I did not regret it, 15 so again I have planned[c] in these days to do good to Jerusalem and the house of Judah. Do not be afraid! 16 These are the things that you must do: speak truth, each of you, with his neighbor; practice trustworthy judgment and peace in your gates. 17 Do not devise evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love a false oath,[d] because all these are things I hate,” declares[e] Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 8:14 Hebrew “evil”
  2. Zechariah 8:14 Or “fathers”
  3. Zechariah 8:15 Literally “So I did again, I planned”
  4. Zechariah 8:17 Literally “an oath of deception”
  5. Zechariah 8:17 Literally “declaration of”