Zechariah 8:5

Young's Literal Translation

And broad places of the city are full of boys and girls, Playing in its broad places.

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 (1611)
And the streets of the citie shall be full of boyes and girles playing in the streets thereof.

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.

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

Contextual Overview

¹ And there is a word of Jehovah of Hosts, saying: ² `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: I have been zealous for Zion with great zeal, With great heat I have been zealous for her. <sup>3</sup> Thus said Jehovah: I have turned back unto Zion, And I have dwelt in the midst of Jerusalem, And Jerusalem hath been called `The city of truth,' And the mountain of Jehovah of Hosts, `The holy mountain.' ⁴ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Again dwell do old men and old women, In broad places of Jerusalem, And each his staff in his hand, Because of abundance of days. ⁵ And broad places of the city are full of boys and girls, Playing in its broad places. ⁶ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Surely it is wonderful in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, Also in Mine eyes it is wonderful, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts. ⁷ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am saving My people from the land of the rising, And from the land of the going in, of the sun, ⁸ And I have brought them in, They have dwelt in the midst of Jerusalem, And they have been to Me for a people, And I am to them for God, In truth and in righteousness.

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 six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been 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.