Zechariah 8:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

The city will be full of boys and girls playing in its plazas.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And the streets of the city will be filled with toddlers and children, playing in its streets.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Zechariah 8:5 Cross References

Jeremiah 31:12

They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion, and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord, over the grain, the wine, and the oil, and over the young of the flock and the herd; their life shall become like a watered garden, and they shall never languish again.

Jeremiah 31:13

Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them and give them gladness for sorrow.

Jeremiah 31:27

The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals.

Jeremiah 33:11

the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing as they bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord: “Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!” For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the Lord.

Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Zechariah 2:4

and said to him, “Run, say to that young man: Jerusalem shall be inhabited like unwalled villages because of the multitude of people and animals in it.

Zechariah 2:8

For thus said the Lord of hosts after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you: Truly, one who touches you touches the apple of my eye.