Zechariah 8:4
Good News Translation
Once again old men and women, so old that they use canes when they walk, will be sitting in the city squares.

New Revised Standard Version
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of their great age.

Contemporary English Version
Very old people with walking sticks will once again sit around in Jerusalem,

New American Bible
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Old men and old women will again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of old age.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem: and every man with his staff in his hand through multitude of days.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem: and every man with his staff in his hand through multitude of days.

There.

1 Samuel 2:31 Behold the days come: and I will cut off thy arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house.

Job 5:26 Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.

Job 42:17 and he died an old man, and full of days.

Isaiah 65:20-22 There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. . . .

Lamentations 2:20,21,22 Res. Behold, O Lord, and consider whom thou hast thus dealt with: shall women then eat their own fruit, their children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? . . .

Lamentations 5:11-15 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda. . . .

Hebrews 12:22 But you are come to mount Sion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels,

very age.

Context
The Restoration of Jerusalem
3Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I am returned to Sion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, The sanctified mountain. 4Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem: and every man with his staff in his hand through multitude of days.5And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls, playing in the streets thereof.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:32
And thou shalt see thy rival in the temple, in all the prosperity of Israel, and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.

Isaiah 65:20
There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

Jeremiah 31:13
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, the young men and old men together: and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them joyful after their sorrow.

Jeremiah 31:24
And Juda and all his cities shall dwell therein together: the husbandman and they that drive the flocks.

Zechariah 2:4
And he said to him: Run, speak to this young man, saying: Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls, by reason of the multitude of men, and of the beasts in the midst thereof.

Zechariah 8:3
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