Zakharia 8:5

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Dan jalan-jalan kota itu akan penuh dengan anak laki-laki dan anak perempuan yang bermain-main di situ.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dan jalan-jalan kota itu akan penuh dengan anak laki-laki dan anak perempuan yang bermain-main di situ.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Dan segala lorong negeri itu akan penuh dengan budak laki-laki dan perempuan yang ramai-ramai bermain pada segala lorongnya.

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
  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 hundreth yere of Noahs lyfe, in the seconde moneth, the seuenteene day of ye moneth, in the same day were all the fountaynes of the great deepe broken vp, and the wyndowes 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.