Zechariah 8:16

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.

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 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.

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,

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 "This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies says: Be strong and finish the task! Ever since the laying of the foundation of the Temple of the Lord of Heaven's Armies, you have heard what the prophets have been saying about completing the building. ¹⁰ Before the work on the Temple began, there were no jobs and no money to hire people or animals. No traveler was safe from the enemy, for there were enemies on all sides. I had turned everyone against each other. ¹¹ "But now I will not treat the remnant of my people as I treated them before, says the Lord of Heaven's Armies. ¹² For I am planting seeds of peace and prosperity among you. The grapevines will be heavy with fruit. The earth will produce its crops, and the heavens will release the dew. Once more I will cause the remnant in Judah and Israel to inherit these blessings. ¹³ Among the other nations, Judah and Israel became symbols of a cursed nation. But no longer! Now I will rescue you and make you both a symbol and a source of blessing. So don't be afraid. Be strong, and get on with rebuilding the Temple! ¹⁴ "For this is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies says: I was determined to punish you when your ancestors angered me, and I did not change my mind, says the Lord of Heaven's Armies. ¹⁵ But now I am determined to bless Jerusalem and the people of Judah. So don't be afraid. ¹⁶ 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. ¹⁷ Don't scheme against each other. Stop your love of telling lies that you swear are the truth. I hate all these things, 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
When everything was ready, the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous.

Genesis 7:7
He went on board the boat to escape the flood—he and his wife and his sons and their wives.

Genesis 7:13
That very day Noah had gone into the boat with his wife and his sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their wives.

Genesis 8:16
"Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives.

Genesis 8:18
So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat.

Joshua 3:17
Meanwhile, the priests who were carrying the Ark of the Lord 's Covenant stood on dry ground in the middle of the riverbed as the people passed by. They waited there until the whole nation of Israel had crossed the Jordan on dry ground.

Joshua 4:10
The priests who were carrying the Ark stood in the middle of the river until all of the Lord 's commands that Moses had given to Joshua were carried out. Meanwhile, the people hurried across the riverbed.

Psalms 91:11
For he will order his angels to protect you wherever you go.

Psalms 121:8
The Lord keeps watch over you as you come and go, both now and forever.

Zechariah 9:11
Because of the covenant I made with you, sealed with blood, I will free your prisoners from death in a waterless dungeon.

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.