Zechariah 8:5

And the streets of the city will be full of boys, and of girls playing in its squares.

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And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

In Context

4The Lord of hosts says: Old men and old women will sit again in the squares of Jerusalem, each leaning on a staff because of old age.

6The Lord of hosts says: Just because it seems impossible to the remnant of this people in these days, is it also impossible for me? says the Lord of hosts.

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Cross References

Psalms 144:12May our sons in their youth be as plants well tended: our daughters like cornices carved as in palaces.

Zechariah 2:4and said to him, “Run and tell to that young man that Jerusalem will be inhabited like a village without walls, because so many people and cattle will live there.

Matthew 11:16But to what will I compare the present generation? It is like little children sitting in the market-places and calling out to their playmates –

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 8:2-9

Encouraging Prospects. ( b. c. 517.) 1 Again the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, 2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury. 3 Thus saith the Lord ; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the holy mountain. 4 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and… Read the whole commentary →

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