1And the answer of LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts was upon me saying: 2”Thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts: ‘I have been zealous for Zion with a great zeal and in great rage I have been zealous for it’ 3Thus says LORD JEHOVAH: ‘I am comforted in Zion and I dwell within Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called, The Holy City and the mountain of LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts, the Holy Mountain’ 4Thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts: ‘therefore old men and old women will be sitting in the streets of Jerusalem, and a man’s staff shall be held in his hand from an abundance of days 5And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls who are playing in the streets 6Thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts: if this is great in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, also in my eyes this is great, says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts 7Thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts, behold I save my people from the land of the East and from the land of the setting sun 8And I shall bring them and they shall pitch camp in Jerusalem, and they shall be to me a people and I shall be to them God, in truth and in righteousness

9In this way, says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts, the hands of all who have heard these words from the mouths of the Prophets shall be strengthened in those days, from the day when the foundation of the temple of LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts to be built was laid 10Because before those days and before that time, there was no payment to a son of man neither for a domestic animal, nor for him that goes out and enters; there was no peace before the oppressor, and behold, I led all the children of men, each man against his fellow man 11Therefore I have not been for the remnant of this people as in the former days, says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts 12Because the seed shall be in peace, and the vine shall give its fruit, and Earth shall give its harvests and the Heavens shall give their dew, and I shall cause the remnant of this people to inherit all of these things 13As you of the house of Yehuda and of the house of Israel were a curse among the nations, so I shall save you and you shall be for a blessing and your hands shall be strengthened and you shall not be afraid

14For thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts: ”As I intended to do evil to you when your fathers angered me, says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts, and I did not turn back 15So I have turned and I have intended in these days that I shall do good to Jerusalem and to those of the house of Yehuda; you shall not be afraid 16Do speak these words, the truth each man with his neighbor, and judge truth and judgment and peace within your gates 17And you shall not intend evil in your heart, each man with his neighbor, and you shall not love a lying oath, because I have hated them all of these things, says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts

18And the word of LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts was upon me, saying: 19Thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts: the fourth fast and the fifth fast and the seventh fast and the tenth fast shall be for those of the house of Yehuda, for dancing and for joy and for fine feasting, and love truth and peace

20Thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts: therefore the nations dwellers of many cities will come 21And the dwellers of one shall go to another and they shall say: ‘Come, let us go and we shall pray before LORD JEHOVAH and we shall inquire from LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts’, and I shall go, even I 22And the many nations shall come and the strong nations to seek LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before LORD JEHOVAH 23Thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts: in those days ten men of all languages of the nations shall hold on the skirt of a Jewish man and they will say to him: ’let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”