Zechariah 8:5

King James Version (1611 Edition)

And the streets of the citie shall be full of boyes and girles playing in the streets thereof.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in them.”

Hebrew Names Version
The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets."

King James Version
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

English Standard Version
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

New American Standard Bible
'And the public squares of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its squares.'

New Century Version
And the streets will be filled with boys and girls playing."

Amplified Bible
'And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.'

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the streetes of the citie shalbe full of boyes and girles, playing in the streetes thereof.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.'

Legacy Standard Bible
And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.'

Berean Standard Bible
And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing there."

Contemporary English Version
while boys and girls play in the streets.

Complete Jewish Bible
The city's open places will also be full of boys and girls playing there.'

Darby Translation
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

Easy-to-Read Version
And the city will be filled with children playing in the streets."

George Lamsa Translation
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing.

Good News Translation
And the streets will again be full of boys and girls playing.

Lexham English Bible
And the public squares of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its public squares.'

Literal Translation
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

American Standard Version
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

Bible in Basic English
And the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its open spaces.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the broad places of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the broad places thereof.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The streetes of the citie also shalbe ful of young boyes and damsels playing in the streetes thereof.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the broad places of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

English Revised Version
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

World English Bible
The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the stretis of the cite schulen be fillid with `yonge children and maidens, pleiynge in the stretis `of it.

Update Bible Version
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

New English Translation
And the streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing.

New King James Version
The streets of the city Shall be full of boys and girls Playing in its streets.'

New Living Translation
And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls at play.

New Life Bible
And the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in the streets.'

New Revised Standard
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the broadways of the city, shall be full of boys and girls, - playing in the broadways thereof.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls, playing in the streets thereof.

Revised Standard Version
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

Young's Literal Translation
And broad places of the city are full of boys and girls, Playing in its broad places.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The stretes of the cite also shalbe full of yonge boyes and damselles, playnge vpon the stretes.

Contextual Overview

¹ Againe the word of the Lord of hostes came to me, saying; ² Thus sayeth the Lord of hostes, I was iealous for Zion, with great iealousie; and I was iealous for her with great furie. ³ Thus saith the Lord, I am returned vnto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Ierusalem, and Ierusalem shall be called a Citie of trueth, and the Mountaine of the Lord of hostes, the holy Mountaine. ⁴ Thus saith the Lord of hosts; There shall yet old men, and old women, dwell in the streets of Ierusalem, and euery man with his staffe in his hand for very age. ⁵ And the streets of the citie shall be full of boyes and girles playing in the streets thereof. ⁶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, If it bee marueilous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these dayes, should it also bee marueilous in my eyes, saith the Lord of hostes? ⁷ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Beholde, I will saue my people from the East countrey, and from the West countrey. ⁸ And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Ierusalem, and they shalbe my people, and I will bee their God, in Trueth and in Righteousnesse.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

playing: Zechariah 2:4, Psalms 128:3, Psalms 128:4, Psalms 144:12-15, Jeremiah 30:19, Jeremiah 30:20, Jeremiah 31:27, Jeremiah 33:11, Lamentations 2:19, Matthew 11:16, Matthew 11:17

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 3:16 - when Jeremiah 31:13 - shall Lamentations 1:1 - full Ezekiel 37:26 - multiply Luke 7:32 - children

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the sixe hundredth yeere of Noahs life, in the second moneth, the seuenteenth day of the moneth, the same day, were al the fountaines of the great deepe broken vp, and the windowes of heauen were opened.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls,.... Denoting a large increase of inhabitants, in a literal sense; and may spiritually signify the large numbers of converts, of new born babes, who are regenerated by the grace and Spirit of God, and are accounted of by the Lord for a generation:

playing the streets thereof; being in health and rigour, and in great security. The Targum renders it, "singing" or "praising in the spacious places thereof"; singing the praises of God in Gospel strains; saying their Hosannas to the Son of David; rejoicing in the great salvation by Christ, and magnifying the grace of God, and setting forth the glories of it in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; see

Matthew 11:16. In Jerusalem, literally taken, there were various streets, besides the street of the temple, which led to it,

Ezra 10:9 mention is made of others in Jewish writings, as of the upper street k, and of the street of the butchers, and of the street of those that dealt in wool l.

k Misn. Shekalim, c. 8. sect. 1. l Misn. Erubin, c. 10. sect. 9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 8:5. The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls — The progeny shall be numerous, healthy, and happy. Their innocent gambols and useful exercises shall be a means of health, and a proof of happiness. To be healthy, children must have exercise. But they cannot take exercise, except in the way of play and diversion: ergo, such playfulness cannot be sinful. Let them be kept from evil words, lying, swearing, and scurrility; and all the rest may be innocent.