Zechariah 8:17

And each the evil of his neighbour ye do not devise in your heart, And a false oath ye do not love, For all these [are] things that I have hated, An affirmation of Jehovah.'

Young's Literal Translation

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 ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,

18And there is a word of Jehovah of Hosts unto me, saying:

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Cross References

Psalms 5:5The boastful station not themselves before Thine eyes: Thou hast hated all working iniquity.

Psalms 101:3I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me.

Proverbs 6:14Frowardness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

Proverbs 6:18A heart devising thoughts of vanity — Feet hasting to run to evil —

Jeremiah 4:2And thou hast sworn — Jehovah liveth, In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness, And blessed themselves in Him have nations, And in Him they boast themselves.

Jeremiah 44:4'And I send unto you all my servants, the prophets, rising early and sending, saying: I pray you, do not 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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