Zechariah 8:5 - Easy To Read Version And the city will be filled with children playing in the streets. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
The people of Israel will come\par to the top of Zion, {\cf2\super [252]} \par and they will shout with joy.\par Their faces will shine with happiness\par about the good things the Lord gives them.\par The Lord will give them grain, new wine,\par olive oil, young sheep, and cows.\par They will be like a garden\par that has plenty of water.\par And the people of Israel will not\par be troubled anymore.\par
Then the young women of Israel\par will be happy and dance.\par And the young men and old men\par will join in the dancing.\par I will change their sadness into happiness.\par I will comfort the people of Israel.\par I will change their sadness to happiness.\par
“The days are coming,” this message is from the Lord, “when I will help the family of Israel and Judah to grow. I will help their children and animals to grow too. It will be like planting and caring for a plant.
There will be sounds of joy and happiness. There will be the happy sounds of a bride and groom. There will be the sounds of people bringing their gifts to the Lord’s temple. {\cf2\super [278]} Those people will say, ‘Praise the Lord All-Powerful! The Lord is good! The Lord’s kindness continues forever!’ The people will say these things because I will again do good things to Judah. It will be like in the beginning.” The Lord said these things.
Get up! Cry out in the night!\par Cry out at the beginning of each of the parts of the night!\par Pour out your heart as if it were water!\par Pour out your heart before the Lord!\par Lift up your hands in prayer to the Lord.\par Ask him to let your children live.\par Ask him to let your children live that are fainting with starvation.\par They are fainting with starvation\par in all the streets of the city.\par
He said to him, “Run and tell that young man that \{Jerusalem will be too big to measure\}. Tell him these things:
Why? Because hurting you\par is like hurting the pupil of God’s eye.\par