and I will (A)bring them back and they will (B)live in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be (C)My people, and I will be their God in [a]truth and righteousness.’

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Let your hands be (D)strong, you who are listening in these days to these words from the mouth of the (E)prophets, those who spoke in the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, to the end that the temple might be built. 10 For before those days there was (F)no wage for man or any wage for animal; and for him who went out or came in there was no [b](G)peace because of [c]his enemies, and I (H)set all men one against another.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 8:8 Or faithfulness
  2. Zechariah 8:10 Or safety
  3. Zechariah 8:10 Lit the adversary