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Zechariah 8:19 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The LORD of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.” "
Zechariah 8:19
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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.
19 The LORD of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”
20 The LORD of Armies says: “Many peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come.
21 The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, ‘Let’s go speedily to entreat the favor of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of Armies. I will go also.’
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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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