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Zechariah 8:13

Verse 13 of 23. The 8th of 14 chapters in Zechariah, in The Minor Prophets.

9The LORD of Armies says: “Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.

10For before those days there was no wages for man nor any wages for an animal, neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbor.

11But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,” says the LORD of Armies.

12“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew. I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

13It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.”

14For the LORD of Armies says: “As I thought to do evil to you when your fathers provoked me to wrath,” says the LORD of Armies, “and I didn’t repent,

15so again I have thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don’t be afraid.

16These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

17and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath; for all these are things that I hate,” says the LORD.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.