Zechariah 8:19 ““This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fif…”

Zechariah 8:19

“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.

World English Bible

The LORD of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”

American Standard Version

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love truth and peace.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, The fast of the fourth moneth, and the fast of the fift, and the fast of the seuenth, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Iudah ioy and gladnes, and prosperous hie feasts: therefore loue the trueth and peace.

Darby Translation

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The fast of the fourth [month] and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful gatherings. Love ye then truth and peace.

Young's Literal Translation

'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: The fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth [months], are to the house of Judah for joy and for rejoicing, and for pleasant appointed seasons, and the truth and the peace they have loved.

Bible in Basic English

This is what the Lord of armies has said: The times of going without food in the fourth month and in the fifth and the seventh and the tenth months, will be for the people of Judah times of joy and happy meetings; so be lovers of good faith and of peace.

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Cross references

“the fourth”

Jeremiah 39:2 2 Kings 25:3 2 Kings 25:4 Jeremiah 52:6 Jeremiah 52:7

Jeremiah 39:2 · BSB

And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.

2 Kings 25:3 · BSB

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

2 Kings 25:4 · BSB

Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,

Jeremiah 52:6 · BSB

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

Jeremiah 52:7 · BSB

Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,

“the fifth”

Zechariah 7:3 Jeremiah 52:12–15

Zechariah 7:3 · BSB

by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”

Jeremiah 52:12–15 · BSB

On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.

“the seventh”

Zechariah 7:5 2 Kings 25:25 Jeremiah 41:1–3

Zechariah 7:5 · BSB

“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?

2 Kings 25:25 · BSB

In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down and killed Gedaliah, along with the Judeans and Chaldeans who were wit…

Jeremiah 41:1–3 · BSB

In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and one of the king’s chief officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah, and they ate a meal t…

“the tenth”

Jeremiah 52:4

Jeremiah 52:4 · BSB

So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all arou…

“joy”

Psalm 30:11 Isaiah 12:1 Isaiah 35:10 Esther 9:22 Esther 8:17 Isaiah 51:11

Psalm 30:11 · BSB

You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

Isaiah 12:1 · BSB

In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.

Isaiah 35:10 · BSB

So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

Esther 9:22 · BSB

as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts…

Esther 8:17 · BSB

In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because…

Isaiah 51:11 · BSB

So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

“therefore”

Zechariah 8:16 Revelation 22:15 Luke 1:74 Luke 1:75 Titus 2:11 Titus 2:12

Zechariah 8:16 · BSB

These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,

Revelation 22:15 · BSB

But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Luke 1:74 · BSB

deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,

Luke 1:75 · BSB

in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our lives.

Titus 2:11 · BSB

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.

Titus 2:12 · BSB

It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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