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.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
5The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:31Behold, the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house.
Job 42:17So Job died, being old and full of days.
Lamentations 2:20“Look, LORD, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Hebrews 12:22But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
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 →