Zechariah 8:21

And the inhabitants go one to another, saying: Let us go, and entreat the face of the Lord, and let us seek the Lord of hosts: I also will go.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.

In Context

20Thus saith the Lord of hosts, until people come and dwell in many cities,

22And many peoples, and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the face of the Lord.

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Cross References

Psalms 103:22The sun ariseth, and they are gathered together: and they shall lie down in their dens.

Psalms 146:1Alleluia. Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God be joyful and comely praise.

Jeremiah 31:6For there shall be a day, in which the watchmen on mount Ephraim, shall cry: Arise, and let us go up to Sion to the Lord our God.

Zechariah 7:2When Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and the men that were with him, sent to the house of God, to entreat the face of the Lord:

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 8:19-23

Encouraging Prospects. ( b. c. 517.) 18 And the word of the Lord of hosts came unto me, saying, 19 Thus saith the Lord 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 the truth and peace. 20 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities: 21 And the inhabitants of one city shall go… Read the whole commentary →

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