Zakharia 8:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Beginilah firman TUHAN semesta alam: Akan ada lagi kakek-kakek dan nenek-nenek duduk di jalan-jalan Yerusalem, masing-masing memegang tongkat karena lanjut usianya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Beginilah firman TUHAN semesta alam: Akan ada lagi kakek-kakek dan nenek-nenek duduk di jalan-jalan Yerusalem, masing-masing memegang tongkat karena lanjut usianya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Demikianlah firman Tuhan serwa sekalian alam: Bahwa akan duduk lagi orang-orang tua laki-laki dan perempuan pada lorong-lorong Yeruzalem, masing-masing dengan tongkat pada tangannya dari karena sangat tuanya.

Contextual Overview

¹ So the word of the lord of hoastes came vnto me, saying: ² Thus saith the lorde of hoastes: I was in great ielousie for Sion, yea I haue ben very ielous for her with great wrath. ³ Thus saith the Lord: I wyl returne vnto Sion, & wyll dwell in the middest of Hierusalem: so that Hierusalem shalbe called, A faithful and true citie, the hil of the Lorde of hoastes, an holy hill. ⁴ Thus saith the lord of hoastes: There shal yet olde men & olde women dwel againe in the streetes of Hierusalem: yea, & such as go with staues in their handes for very age. ⁵ The streetes of the citie also shalbe ful of young boyes and damsels playing in the streetes thereof. ⁶ Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes: If the residue of this people thinke it to be vnpossible in [their] eyes in these dayes: shoulde it therfore be vnpossible in my sight, saith the Lorde of hoastes? ⁷ Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes: Beholde, I wyll deliuer my people from the countryes of the east and west, ⁸ And wyl bring them againe, that they may dwel in the middest of Hierusalem: they shalbe my people, and I wyl be their God in trueth and righteousnesse.

Bible Verse Review
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There: 1 Samuel 2:31, Job 5:26, Job 42:17, Isaiah 65:20-22, Lamentations 2:20, Lamentations 2:21, Lamentations 2:22, Lamentations 5:11-15, Hebrews 12:22

very age: Heb. multitude of days

Reciprocal: Exodus 21:19 - upon his staff 1 Samuel 2:32 - an old man Ecclesiastes 12:3 - strong Jeremiah 3:16 - when Jeremiah 30:10 - and shall Jeremiah 30:19 - and I Jeremiah 31:13 - shall Jeremiah 31:24 - General Lamentations 1:1 - full Ezekiel 37:26 - multiply Zechariah 2:4 - Jerusalem Zechariah 14:11 - shall be safely inhabited

Cross-References

Genesis 8:17
And bryng foorth with thee euery beast that is with thee, of all fleshe, both foule and cattell, and euery worme that crepeth vpon the earth, that they may breede in the earth, and bring foorth fruite, and multiplie vpon earth.

Genesis 8:19
Euery beast also, and euery worme, euery foule, and whatsoeuer crepeth vpon the earth after their kyndes, went out of the arke.

2 Kings 19:37
And it fortuned, that as he was in a temple worshipping Nisroch his God, Adramelech & Saresar his owne sonnes smote hym with the sworde: And they escaped into the lande of Armenia, and Asarhaddon his sonne raigned in his steade.

Isaiah 37:38
Afterwarde it chaunced as he prayed in the temple of Nesroch his God, that Adramalech and Sarazer his owne sonnes slue hym with the sworde, and fled into the lande of Armenia: and Asarhaddon his sonne raigned in his steede.

Jeremiah 51:27
Set vp a token in the lande, blowe the trumpets among the heathen, prouoke the nations agaynst her, call the kyngdomes of Ararat, Menni, and Ascanez, agaynst her, set the prince agaynst her, bryng as great a sort of terrible horses agaynst her as yf they were grashoppers.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord of hosts,.... These words are used at every consolatory promise given, as Kimchi observes, for the confirmation of it:

there shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem; signifying that the inhabitants should be very healthful; no sweeping disease or calamity should be among them, but they should live to a good old age, as follows:

and every man with his staff in his hand for very age; or "because of multitude of days" i; the length of time they should have lived in the world, being worn out, not with diseases, but with old age, and therefore obliged to use a staff when they walk the streets for their support; all which is an emblem of the healthfulness of the inhabitants of Zion, who have no reason to complain of sickness, because their sins are forgiven them; and of that spiritual and eternal life, which they that are written among the living in Jerusalem do enjoy; who are in understanding men, fathers in Christ, and are growing up to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ; see Isaiah 65:20.

i מרב ימים "prae multitudine dierum", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Cocceius, Burkius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There shall yet dwell old men and old women - Dionysius: “Men and women shall not be slain now, as before in the time of the Babylonish destruction, but shall fulfill their natural course.” It shall not be, as when “He gave His people over unto the sword; the fire consumed their young men and their maidens were not given to marriage; the priests were slain by the sword and their widows made no lamentation” Psalms 78:63-64; apart from the horrible atrocities of pagan war, when the unborn children were destroyed in their mothers’ womb 2 Kings 15:16; Hosea 13:16; Amos 1:13, with their mothers. Yet (as in Zechariah 1:17), once more as in the days of old, and as conditionally promised in the law Deuteronomy 4:10; Deuteronomy 5:16, Deuteronomy 5:33; Deuteronomy 6:2; Deuteronomy 11:9; Deuteronomy 17:20; Deuteronomy 22:7; Deuteronomy 32:47; Ezekiel 20:17. As death is the punishment of sin, so prolongation of life to the time which God has now made its natural term, seems the more a token of His goodness. This promise Isaiah had renewed, “There shall no more be an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days” Isaiah 65:20. In those fierce wars neither young nor very old were spared. It implied then a long peace, that people should live to that utmost verge of human life.

The man, whose staff is in his hand for the multitude of days - The two opposite pictures, the old men, Dionysius), “so aged that they support with a staff their failing and trembling limbs,” and the young in the glad buoyancy of recent life, fresh from their Creator’s hands, attest alike the goodness of the Creator, who protecteth both, the children in their yet undeveloped strength, the very old whom He hath brought through “all the changes and chances of this mortal life,” in their yet sustained weakness. The tottering limbs of the very old, and the elastic perpetual motion of childhood are like far distant chords of the diapason of the Creator’s love. It must have been one of the most piteous sights in that first imminent destruction of Jerusalem Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 9:21, how “the children and the sucklings swooned in the streets of the city; how the young children fainted for hunger in the top of every street” Lamentations 2:11, Lamentations 2:19.

We have but to picture to ourselves any city in which one lives, the ground strewn with these little all-but corpses, alive only to suffer. We know not, how great the relief of the yet innocent, almost indomitable joyousness of children is, until we miss them. In the dreadful Irish famine of 1847 the absence of the children from the streets of Galway was told me by Religious as one of its dreariest features . In the dreary back-streets and alleys of London, the irrepressible joyousness of children is one of the bright sun-beams of that great Babylon, amid the oppressiveness of the anxious, hard, luxurious; thoughtless, careworn, eager, sensual, worldly, frivolous, vain, stolid, sottish, cunning, faces, which traverse it. God sanctions by His word here our joy in the joyousness of children, that He too taketh pleasure in it, He the Father of all. It is precisely their laughing, the fullness of her streets of these merry creations of His hands, that He speaks of with complacency.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 8:4. There shall yet old men and old women — In those happy times the followers of God shall live out all their days, and the hoary head be always found in the way of righteousness.