Zechariah 8:5 “And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing…”

Zechariah 8:5

And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

And the streetes of the citie shalbe full of boyes and girles, playing in the streetes thereof.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

And broad places of the city are full of boys and girls, Playing in its broad places.

Bible in Basic English

And the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its open spaces.

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Cross references

“playing”

Zechariah 2:4 Psalm 144:12–15 Jeremiah 31:27 Jeremiah 33:11 Lamentations 2:19 Psalm 128:3

Zechariah 2:4 · BSB

and said to him, “Run and tell that young man: ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the multitude of men and livestock within it.

Psalm 144:12–15 · BSB

Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Jeremiah 31:27 · BSB

“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast.

Jeremiah 33:11 · BSB

the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His lo…

Lamentations 2:19 · BSB

Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corn…

Psalm 128:3 · BSB

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.

Also

Jeremiah 31:13

Jeremiah 31:13 · BSB

Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.

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

In context

4This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Old men and old women will again sit along the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in hand because of great age.

6This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “If this is impossible in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be impossible in My eyes?” declares the LORD of Hosts.

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