¹And the word of the Lord of hosts came and said, ²“This is what the Lord of hosts says:

‘I am jealous for Zion with a great jealousy,

And with great fury I am jealous for her.’

³This is what the Lord says: ‘I will return to Zion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the Holy Mountain.’ ⁴This is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘Elderly men and women will yet dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, each with his staff in his hand because of their advanced age. ⁵And the streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.’ ⁶This is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘If it is marvellous in the sight of the remnant of this people, in those days, will it also be marvellous in my sight? says the Lord of hosts.’ ⁷This is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I am about to save my people from the land of the east and from the land of the west. ⁸And I will bring them, and they will dwell in the precincts of Jerusalem, and they will be a people to me, and I will be God to them, in truth and righteousness.’ ⁹This is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘May you be of good courage, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were present on the day when the house of the Lord of hosts was founded, when the temple was to be built. ¹⁰For before those days, a man had no wages, and there were no wages for keeping cattle, and there was no peace for him who went about his business, because of affliction. And I sent every man against his neighbour. ¹¹But now, I will not be as in the former days to the remnant of this people, says the Lord of hosts. ¹²For it will be a seed enjoying peace. The vine will yield its fruit, and the land will yield its produce, and the heavens will give their dew. And I will give all these things as a possession to the remnant of this people. ¹³And it will come to pass, that just as you were an object of cursing among the Gentiles, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not fear; be of good courage.’ ¹⁴For this is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘Just as I purposed to bring harm to you when your fathers provoked me to anger, says the Lord of hosts, and I did not repent, ¹⁵so I have again purposed in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah; do not fear. ¹⁶These are the things which you are to do: speak the truth, each one with his neighbour, and judge in your courts with truth and sound judgment. ¹⁷And don't let any of you plot harm in your hearts against his neighbour, and do not love a false oath, for all these things are what I hate, says the Lord.’ ” ¹⁸And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me and said, ¹⁹“This is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘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 to the house of Judah for rejoicing, and for gladness, and for good festival times, so love truth and peace.’ ²⁰This is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘It will yet be that various peoples will come, and inhabitants of many cities, ²¹and the inhabitants of one city will go to another and say, «Let us without fail go to entreat the Lord and seek the Lord of hosts. I too will go.» ²²And many peoples will come, and powerful nations, to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the Lord.’ ²³This is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘In those days what will happen is that ten men of all the languages of the Gentiles will take hold, namely they will take hold of the hem of the garment of a Jewish man and say, «Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.» ’ ”

Reference(s) in Chapter 8: v.8 ↔ 2 Corinthians 6:16, Revelation 21:7 ● v.16 ↔ Ephesians 4:25.