And the word of יהוה of Hosts came, saying,

Thus says יהוה of Hosts: I have been zealous for Tsiyon with great zeal, and with great wrath I have been zealous for her.

Thus says יהוה: I will return to Tsiyon and dwell in the midst of Yerushalayim, and Yerushalayim will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of יהוה of Hosts, the Holy Mountain.

Thus says יהוה of Hosts: Old men and old women will still sit in the streets of Yerushalayim, each with his staff in his hand because of great age.

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

Thus says יהוה of Hosts: If it seems difficult in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, will it also seem difficult in My eyes? says יהוה of Hosts.

Thus says יהוה of Hosts: Behold, I am saving My people from the land of the east and from the land of the setting sun.

And I will bring them, and they will dwell in the midst of Yerushalayim, and they will be to Me for a people, and I will be to them for Elohim in truth and in righteousness.

Thus says יהוה of Hosts: Let your hands be strengthened, you who hear these words in these days from the mouth of the prophets, on the day the house of יהוה of Hosts was founded, the Temple, to be built.

For before those days, the wage for man was not, and the wage for beast was not, and for the one going out and the one coming in, there was no peace from the adversary, and I sent every man against his neighbor.

But now, I am not like the former days for the remnant of this people, says יהוה of Hosts.

For the seed of peace, the vine will give its fruit, and the land will give its produce, and the heavens will give their dew, and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

And it will be, just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Yehudah and house of Yisra'el, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not fear; let your hands be strengthened.

For thus says יהוה of Hosts: Just as I purposed to do harm to you when your fathers provoked Me, says יהוה of Hosts, and I did not relent,

so I have returned and purposed in these days to do good to Yerushalayim and to the house of Yehudah. Do not fear.

These are the things you shall do: Speak truth, each man to his neighbor; execute truth and the judgment of peace in your gates.

And let no man plot evil against his neighbor in his heart, and do not love an oath of falsehood, for all these are things that I hate, says יהוה.

And the word of יהוה of Hosts came to me, saying:

Thus says יהוה of Hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth month, and the fast of the seventh month, and the fast of the tenth month will be for the house of Yehudah for joy and for gladness and for good appointed times. But love truth and peace.

Thus says יהוה of Hosts: It will yet come to pass that peoples and inhabitants of many cities will come,

and the inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, 'Let us go to entreat the face of יהוה and to seek יהוה of Hosts; I will go also.'

And many peoples and mighty nations will come to seek יהוה of Hosts in Yerushalayim and to entreat the face of יהוה.

Thus says יהוה of Hosts: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will take hold, yes, they will take hold of the garment of a Yehudi man, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that Elohim is with you.'