1And the word of Yehovah of hosts came to me, saying, 2Thus says Yehovah of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath. 3Thus says Yehovah: I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth; and the mountain of Yehovah of hosts, The holy mountain. 4Thus says Yehovah of hosts: Old men and old women shall again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand because of great age. 5And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets. 6Thus says Yehovah of hosts: If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes? says Yehovah of hosts. 7Thus says Yehovah of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; 8and I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness. 9Thus says Yehovah of hosts: 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 Yehovah of hosts was laid, even the temple, that it might be built. 10For before those days there were no wages for man, nor any wages for beast; nor was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary: for I set all men every one against his neighbor. 11But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days, says Yehovah of hosts. 12For there shall be the seed of peace; the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things. 13And it shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Do not fear, but let your hands be strong. 14For thus says Yehovah of hosts: As I purposed to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, says Yehovah of hosts, and I did not relent; 15so again I have purposed in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: do not fear. 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 Yehovah. 18And the word of Yehovah of hosts came to me, saying, 19Thus says Yehovah 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. 20Thus says Yehovah of hosts: It shall again come to pass, that there shall come peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities; 21and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go quickly to entreat the favor of Yehovah, and to seek Yehovah of hosts: I will go also. 22Indeed, many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek Yehovah of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yehovah. 23Thus says Yehovah of hosts: In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they shall take hold of the robe of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.