Zechariah 8:1-8

Modern English Version

The Holy City of Peace and Prosperity

8 And the word of the Lord came, saying: ² Thus says the Lord of Hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Zion, and with great wrath I am jealous for her.

³ Thus says the Lord: I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem will be called a city of faithfulness and the mountain of the Lord of Hosts, the holy mountain.

⁴ Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Older men and women will again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each having a staff in his hand because of advanced age. ⁵ And the plazas of the city will be filled with young boys and girls playing in her open places.

⁶ Thus says the Lord of Hosts: If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, will it also be marvelous in My eyes? says the Lord of Hosts.

⁷ Thus says the Lord of Hosts: I will deliver My people from the eastern lands and from the western lands. ⁸ And I will bring them, and they will reside in Jerusalem, and they will be for Me as a people, and I will be for them as God, with faithfulness and righteousness.