1. The word of the Lord of Hosts came to me.
2. the Lord of Hosts says: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.”
3. the Lord says: “I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the middle of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called ‘The City of Truth;’ and the mountain of the Lord of Hosts, ‘The Holy Mountain.’”
4. the Lord of Hosts says: “Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
5. The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”
6. the Lord of Hosts says: “If it is marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvellous in my eyes?” says the Lord of Hosts.
7. the Lord of Hosts says: “Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
8. and I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.”