14. For thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “Just as I determined to harm you when your fathers provoked Me to anger,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, ‘and I did not relent,
15. so I have again determined in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Fear not!
16. These are the things that you are to do: speak the truth one to another; administer the judgment of truth and shalom in your gates;
17. do not let any of you devise evil in your hearts against your neighbor; and do not love false oaths, for I hate all these things,”—it is a declaration of Adonai.
18. Again the word of Adonai-Tzva’ot came saying:
19. “Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “The fast of the fourth, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth month will become joy, gladness and cheerful moadim. Therefore, love truth and shalom!’
20. Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “Peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will again come.