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Zechariah 8:5 KJV
Zechariah · chapter 8 · verse 5
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.Zechariah 8:5 · King James Version
Zechariah 8:5 in context
3Thus 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.
4Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
5And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
6Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.
7Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- streetsrᵉchôba widthH7339 →
- playingsâchaqto laughH7832 →
- girlsyaldâha lassH3207 →
- cityʻîyra city in the widest senseH5892 →
- fullmâlêʼto fill or be full of, in a wide applicationH4390 →
- boysyeledsomething bornH3206 →
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The prophet, in his foregoing discourses, had left his hearers under a high charge of guilt and a deep sense of wrath; he had left them in a melancholy view of the desolations of their pleasant land, which was the effect of their fathers' disobedience;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-8