Zechariah 8:16

Hebrew Names Version

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and shalom in your gates,

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
But you must do this: Tell the truth to your neighbors. When you make decisions in your cities, be fair and do what is right. Do what brings peace.

New American Standard Bible
'These are the things which you shall do: speak the truth to one another; judge with truth and judgment for peace at your gates.

New Century Version
These are the things you should do: Tell each other the truth. In the courts judge with truth and complete fairness.

Update Bible Version
These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates;

Webster's Bible Translation
These [are] the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

Amplified Bible
'These are the things which you should do: speak the truth with one another; judge with truth and pronounce the judgment that brings peace in [the courts at] your gates.

English Standard Version
These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;

World English Bible
These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor these ben the wordis whiche ye schulen do; speke ye treuthe, ech man with his neiybore; deme ye treuthe and dom of pees in youre yatis;

English Revised Version
These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth with his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

Berean Standard Bible
These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound decisions in your gates,

Contemporary English Version
But you must be truthful with each other, and in court you must give fair decisions that lead to peace.

American Standard Version
These are the things that ye shall do: Speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates;

Bible in Basic English
These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.

Complete Jewish Bible
These are the things you are to do: speak the truth to each other; in your courts, administer justice that is true and conducive to peace;

Darby Translation
These are the things that ye shall do: Speak truth every one with his neighbour; execute truth and the judgment of peace in your gates;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
These are the things that ye shall do: Speak ye every man the truth with his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates;

King James Version (1611)
These are the things that yee shall doe; Speake yee euery man the truth to his neighbor: execute the iudgment of trueth and peace in your gates.

New Living Translation
But this is what you must do: Tell the truth to each other. Render verdicts in your courts that are just and that lead to peace.

New Life Bible
These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to one another. Judge with truth so there will be peace within your gates.

New Revised Standard
These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another, render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace,

Geneva Bible (1587)
These are ye things that ye shall doe. Speake ye euery man the trueth vnto his neighbour: execute iudgement truely & vprightly in your gates,

George Lamsa Translation
These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth every one to his neighbor; execute the truth, justice, and peace in your gates;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
These, are the things which ye shall do: Speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour, truth and the sentence of peace, pronounce ye in your gates;

Douay-Rheims Bible
These then are the things, which you shall do: Speak ye truth every one to his neighbour; judge ye truth and judgment of peace in your gates.

Revised Standard Version
These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another, render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Now the thinges that ye shall do, are these: Speake euery man the trueth vnto his neighbour, execute iudgement truely & peaceably within your portes:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
These are the things which ye shall do; speak truth every one with his neighbour; judge truth and peaceable judgment in your gates:

Good News Translation
These are the things you should do: Speak the truth to one another. In the courts give real justice—the kind that brings peace.

Christian Standard Bible®
These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another; make true and sound decisions within your city gates.

King James Version
These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

Lexham English Bible
These are the things that you must do: speak truth, each of you, with his neighbor; practice trustworthy judgment and peace in your gates.

Literal Translation
These are the things that you shall do. Let each man speak the truth with his neighbor. Judge with truth and justice for peace in your gates,

Young's Literal Translation
These [are] the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now the thinges that ye shal do, are these: Speake euery man the treuth vnto his neghboure, execute iudgment truly and peaceably within youre portes,

New English Translation
These are the things you must do: Speak the truth, each of you, to one another. Practice true and righteous judgment in your courts.

New King James Version
These are the things you shall do: Speak each man the truth to his neighbor; Give judgment in your gates for truth, justice, and peace;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'These are the things which you should do: speak the truth to one another; judge with truth and judgment for peace in your gates.

Legacy Standard Bible
These are the things which you should do: speak the truth to one another; judge with truth and judgment for peace in your gates.

Contextual Overview

⁹ Thus says the LORD of Hosts: "Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of Hosts was laid, even the temple, that it might be built. ¹⁰ For before those days there was no wages for man, nor any wages for an animal; neither was there any shalom to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbor. ¹¹ But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days," says the LORD of Hosts. ¹² "For the seed of shalom and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things. ¹³ It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Yehudah and house of Yisra'el, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don't be afraid. Let your hands be strong." ¹⁴ For thus says the LORD of hosts: "As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath," says the LORD of Hosts, "and I didn't repent; ¹⁵ so again have I thought in these days to do good to Yerushalayim and to the house of Yehudah. Don't be afraid. ¹⁶ These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and shalom in your gates, ¹⁷ and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate," says the LORD.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

are: Deuteronomy 10:12, Deuteronomy 10:13, Deuteronomy 11:7, Deuteronomy 11:8, Micah 6:8, Luke 3:8-14, Ephesians 4:17, 1 Peter 1:13-16

Speak: Zechariah 8:19, Zechariah 7:9, Leviticus 19:11, Psalms 15:2, Proverbs 12:17, Proverbs 12:19, Jeremiah 9:3-5, Hosea 4:1, Hosea 4:2, Micah 6:12, Ephesians 4:25, 1 Thessalonians 4:6, Revelation 21:8

execute the judgment of truth and peace: Heb. judge truth and the judgment of peace, Zechariah 7:9, Isaiah 9:7, Isaiah 11:3-9, Amos 5:15, Amos 5:24, Matthew 5:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:24 - I am Genesis 34:20 - the gate Exodus 18:21 - men Job 29:7 - General Isaiah 1:17 - seek Isaiah 39:8 - For Isaiah 61:8 - I the Lord Ezekiel 18:8 - hath executed Ezekiel 45:9 - remove Hosea 12:6 - keep Matthew 7:12 - for Ephesians 4:15 - But Colossians 3:9 - Lie

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
The LORD said to Noach, "Come with all of your household into the teivah, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

Genesis 7:7
Noach went into the teivah with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.

Genesis 7:13
In the same day Noach, and Shem, Ham, and Yefet, the sons of Noach, and Noach's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the teivah;

Genesis 8:16
"Go forth from the teivah, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

Genesis 8:18
Noach went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

Joshua 3:17
The Kohanim who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Yarden; and all Yisra'el passed over on dry ground, until all the nation were passed clean over the Yarden.

Joshua 4:10
For the Kohanim who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Yarden, until everything was finished that the LORD commanded Yehoshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moshe commanded Yehoshua: and the people hurried and passed over.

Psalms 91:11
For he will give his angels charge over you, To guard you in all your ways.

Psalms 121:8
The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in, From this time forth, and forevermore.

Zechariah 9:11
As for you also, Because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

These [are] the things that ye shall do,.... Which were duties incumbent on them, and which it became them to perform, under a sense of the favours bestowed on them, to show their gratitude to God, and that they might glorify him:

Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; not using deceit, prevarication, and lying, Ephesians 4:25 and it becomes every man under the Gospel dispensation, according to the gift he has received, to speak, publish, and declare the truth of the Gospel, to the edification of others:

execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates; that is, execute true judgment, as in Zechariah 7:9 do justice between man and man, without respect of persons; the issue of which will be peace between the contending parties: and this was to be done in their "gates", because there their courts of judicature were kept.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These are the things that ye shall do - He exhorts them to the same duties, to which the former prophets had exhorted their fathers, Zechariah 7:9-10, and, as before, first positively to truth and peace; then to avoid everything contrary to it. “Judgment of peace” must be judgment which issues in peace, as all righteous judgment righteously received, in which case each party acquiesces, must. Kimchi: “If ye judge righteousness, there will be peace between the litigants, according to that proverb, Sanhedr. f. 7. a. quoted by Me. Caul, p. 78), ‘He that hath his coat taken from him by the tribunal, let him sing and go his way’ (“because,” says a gloss (Rashi, quoted Ibid.), “they have judged the judgment of truth, and have taken away that which would have been stolen property, if he retained it,” being in fact not his). And they have quoted that, “And all this people shall go to their place in peace” Exodus 18:23. : “All this people,” even he that is condemned in judgment. It is also interpreted of arbitration. What sort of judgment is that, in which there is peace? It is that of arbitration.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 8:16. Speak ye every man the truth — See Zechariah 7:9-10.