Zechariah 8:17

And do not devise the evil of his neighbor in your heart, || And do not love a false oath, || For all these [are] things that I have hated, || A declaration of YHWH.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.

In Context

16These [are] the things that you do: Each speak truth with his neighbor, || Judge [with] truth and peaceful judgment in your gates,

18And there is a word of YHWH of Hosts to me, saying,

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Cross References

Psalms 5:5The boastful do not station themselves before Your eyes: You have hated all working iniquity.

Psalms 101:3I do not set a worthless thing before my eyes, || I have hated the work of those turning aside, || It does not adhere to me.

Proverbs 6:14Contrariness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, || He sends forth contentions.

Proverbs 6:18A heart devising thoughts of vanity, || Feet hastening to run to evil,

Jeremiah 4:2And you have sworn—YHWH lives, || In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness, || And nations have blessed themselves in Him, || And they boast themselves in Him.”

Jeremiah 44:4And I send to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Please do not do this abomination that I have hated—

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 8:10-18

Encouraging Prospects. ( b. c. 517.) 9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built. 10 For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour. 11 But now I will not… Read the whole commentary →

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