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Zechariah 8:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates, "

Zechariah 8:16

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14 For the LORD of Armies says: “As I thought to do evil to you when your fathers provoked me to wrath,” says the LORD of Armies, “and I didn’t repent,

15 so again I have thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don’t be afraid.

16 These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

17 and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath; for all these are things that I hate,” says the LORD.

18 The word of the LORD of Armies came to me.

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"The LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Hear the words of this covenant, and do them."

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Zechariah 8:1

"The word of the LORD of Armies came to me."

Zechariah 8:2

"The LORD of Armies says: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.”"

Zechariah 8:3

"The LORD 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 the LORD of Armies, ‘The Holy Mountain.’”"

Zechariah 8:4

"The LORD of Armies 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."

Zechariah 8:5

"The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”"

Zechariah 8:6

"The LORD of Armies says: “If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?” says the LORD of Armies."

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