[1] The word of Yahweh of Hosts came [to me], saying, [2] Thus says Yahweh
of Hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for
her with great wrath. [3] Thus says Yahweh: I am returned to Zion, and will
dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of
truth; and the mountain of Yahweh of Hosts, The holy mountain. [4] Thus
says Yahweh of Hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the
streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
[5] The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the
streets of it. [6] Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: If it be marvelous in the
eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be
marvelous in my eyes? says Yahweh of Hosts. [7] Thus says Yahweh of Hosts:
Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west
country; [8] and I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of
Jerusalem; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth
and in righteousness. [9] Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Let your hands be
strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the
prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of
Hosts was laid, even the temple, that it might be built. [10] For before
those days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for animal; neither was
there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary:
for I set all men everyone against his neighbor. [11] But now I will not be
to the remnant of this people as in the former days, says Yahweh of Hosts.
[12] For [there shall be] the seed of peace; the vine shall give its fruit,
and the ground shall give its increase, and the sky shall give their dew;
and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
[13] It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations,
house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a
blessing. Don`t be afraid, [but] let your hands be strong. [14] For thus
says Yahweh of hosts: As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers
provoked me to wrath, says Yahweh of Hosts, and I didn`t repent; [15] so
again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house
of Judah: don`t you fear. [16] These are the things that you shall do:
speak you 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 Yahweh. [18] The word of Yahweh of Hosts came to
me, saying, [19] Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: The fast of the fourth [month],
and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the
tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful
feasts; therefore love truth and peace. [20] Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: [It
shall] yet [happen], that there shall come peoples, and the inhabitants of
many cities; [21] and the inhabitants of one [city] shall go to another,
saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek
Yahweh of Hosts: I will go also. [22] Yes, many peoples and strong nations
shall come to seek Yahweh of Hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor
of Yahweh. [23] Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: In those days [it shall happen],
that ten men shall take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they
shall take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with
you, for we have heard that God is with you.
