Zechariah 8:15
13 As you have been a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid; let your hands be strong.”
14 For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Just as I resolved to bring disaster upon you when your fathers provoked Me to anger, and I did not relent,” says the LORD of Hosts,
“so now I have resolved to do good again to Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid.
16 These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
17 do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love to swear falsely, for I hate all these things,” declares the LORD.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “so now I have resolved to do good again to Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid.
- KJV
- So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.
- WEB
- so again I have thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don’t be afraid.
- ASV
- so again have I thought in these days to do good unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.
- DARBY
- so again have I thought in these days to do good unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.
- BLB
- so again I have purposed in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Do not fear!
- ÅB
- slik har jeg i disse dager satt meg fore å gjøre vel mot Jerusalem og Judas hus; frykt ikke!
- OTB
- “slik har jeg bestemt å gjøre godt igjen mot Jerusalem og Judas hus. Frykt ikke.
- B1930
- således har jeg i disse dager satt mig fore å gjøre vel mot Jerusalem og Judas hus; frykt ikke!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Zechariah 8:13
As you have been a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid; let your hands be strong.”
Read in contextMicah 7:18–20
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
Read in contextLuke 12:32
Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.
Read in contextMicah 4:10–13
Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies!
Read in contextJeremiah 32:42
For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.
Read in contextJeremiah 29:11–14
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
Read in contextZephaniah 3:16–17
On that day they will say to Jerusalem: “Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands fall limp.
Read in contextIsaiah 43:1–2
Now this is what the LORD says— He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!
Read in context