Zechariah 8:19

Truth and honesty Peace Joy Fasting

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.

¹⁸ Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,

“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.”

²⁰ This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Peoples will yet come—the residents of many cities—

²¹ and the residents of one city will go to another, saying: ‘Let us go at once to plead before the LORD and to seek the LORD of Hosts. I myself am going.’

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: “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.”
KJV: 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.
WEB: 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.”
ASV: 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.
DARBY: 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.
BLB: “Thus says YHWH 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, will be for the house of Judah as joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. And love the truth and the peace.”

ÅB: Så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud: Fasten i den fjerde måned[^1] og i den femte[^2] og i den syvende[^2] og i den tiende[^3] måned[^2] skal bli Judas hus til fryd og glede og til glade høytider. Men elsk sannhet og fred!
OTB: Dette sier Herren over hærskarene: “Fastene i den fjerde, femte, sjuende og tiende måned skal bli gledelige og glade anledninger og lykkelige festivaler for Judas hus. Derfor, elsk sannhet og fred.”
B1930: Så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud: Fasten i den fjerde måned og i den femte og i den syvende og i den tiende måned skal bli Judas hus til fryd og glede og til glade høitider. Men elsk sannhet og fred! / < da blev Jerusalem inntatt; JER 39, 2; 52, 6. 7.> / < SKR 7, 5.> / < da begynte Jerusalems beleiring; 2KG 25, 1. ESK 24. 1. 2.>

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Original text and word study

Cross references

Zechariah 8:16
These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
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Jeremiah 39:2
And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.
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Zechariah 7:3
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?”
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Zechariah 7:5
“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?
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2 Kings 25:25
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 with him at Mizpah.
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Psalms 30:11
You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
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Jeremiah 52:4
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 around it.
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2 Kings 25:3–4
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.
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