Zechariah 8:10
For before these dayes 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, euery one against his neighbour.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
11But nowe, I wil not intreate the residue of this people as aforetime, saith the Lord of hostes.
Cross References
Judges 5:6In the dayes of Shamgar the sonne of Anath, in the dayes of Iael the hie wayes were vnoccupied, and the trauelers walked through by wayes.
2 Chronicles 15:5And in that time there was no peace to him, that did goe out and goe in: but great troubles were to all the inhabitants of the earth.
Jeremiah 16:16Behold, sayth the Lord, I wil send out many fishers, and they shall fish them, and after, will I send out many hunters, and they shall hunt them from euery mountaine and from euery hill, and out of the caues of the rockes.
Amos 9:4And though they goe into captiuitie before their enemies, thence wil I commande the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes vpon them for euill, and not for good.
Haggai 2:16And nowe, I pray you, consider in your mindes: from this day, and afore, euen afore a stone was layde vpon a stone in the Temple of the Lord:
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 →