Zechariah 8:5

New Living Translation

And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls at play.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
And the city will be filled with children playing in the streets."

New American Standard Bible
'And the public squares of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its squares.'

New Century Version
And the streets will be filled with boys and girls playing."

Update Bible Version
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

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

English Standard Version
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

World English Bible
The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the stretis of the cite schulen be fillid with `yonge children and maidens, pleiynge in the stretis `of it.

English Revised Version
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

Berean Standard Bible
And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing there."

Contemporary English Version
while boys and girls play in the streets.

American Standard Version
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

Bible in Basic English
And the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its open spaces.

Complete Jewish Bible
The city's open places will also be full of boys and girls playing there.'

Darby Translation
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the broad places of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the broad places thereof.

King James Version (1611)
And the streets of the citie shall be full of boyes and girles playing in the streets thereof.

New Life Bible
And the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in the streets.'

New Revised Standard
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the streetes of the citie shalbe full of boyes and girles, playing in the streetes thereof.

George Lamsa Translation
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the broadways of the city, shall be full of boys and girls, - playing in the broadways thereof.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls, playing in the streets thereof.

Revised Standard Version
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The streetes of the citie also shalbe ful of young boyes and damsels playing in the streetes thereof.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the broad places of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

Good News Translation
And the streets will again be full of boys and girls playing.

Christian Standard Bible®
The streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in them.”

Hebrew Names Version
The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets."

King James Version
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

Lexham English Bible
And the public squares of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its public squares.'

Literal Translation
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

Young's Literal Translation
And broad places of the city are full of boys and girls, Playing in its broad places.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The stretes of the cite also shalbe full of yonge boyes and damselles, playnge vpon the stretes.

New English Translation
And the streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing.

New King James Version
The streets of the city Shall be full of boys and girls Playing in its streets.'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.'

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

Contextual Overview

¹ Then another message came to me from the Lord of Heaven's Armies: ² "This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies says: My love for Mount Zion is passionate and strong; I am consumed with passion for Jerusalem! ³ "And now the Lord says: I am returning to Mount Zion, and I will live in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City; the mountain of the Lord of Heaven's Armies will be called the Holy Mountain. ⁴ "This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies says: Once again old men and women will walk Jerusalem's streets with their canes and will sit together in the city squares. ⁵ And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls at play. ⁶ "This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies says: All this may seem impossible to you now, a small remnant of God's people. But is it impossible for me? says the Lord of Heaven's Armies. ⁷ "This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies says: You can be sure that I will rescue my people from the east and from the west. ⁸ I will bring them home again to live safely in Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be faithful and just toward them as their God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

playing: Zechariah 2:4, Psalms 128:3, Psalms 128:4, Psalms 144:12-15, Jeremiah 30:19, Jeremiah 30:20, Jeremiah 31:27, Jeremiah 33:11, Lamentations 2:19, Matthew 11:16, Matthew 11:17

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 3:16 - when Jeremiah 31:13 - shall Lamentations 1:1 - full Ezekiel 37:26 - multiply Luke 7:32 - children

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls,.... Denoting a large increase of inhabitants, in a literal sense; and may spiritually signify the large numbers of converts, of new born babes, who are regenerated by the grace and Spirit of God, and are accounted of by the Lord for a generation:

playing the streets thereof; being in health and rigour, and in great security. The Targum renders it, "singing" or "praising in the spacious places thereof"; singing the praises of God in Gospel strains; saying their Hosannas to the Son of David; rejoicing in the great salvation by Christ, and magnifying the grace of God, and setting forth the glories of it in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; see

Matthew 11:16. In Jerusalem, literally taken, there were various streets, besides the street of the temple, which led to it,

Ezra 10:9 mention is made of others in Jewish writings, as of the upper street k, and of the street of the butchers, and of the street of those that dealt in wool l.

k Misn. Shekalim, c. 8. sect. 1. l Misn. Erubin, c. 10. sect. 9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 8:5. The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls — The progeny shall be numerous, healthy, and happy. Their innocent gambols and useful exercises shall be a means of health, and a proof of happiness. To be healthy, children must have exercise. But they cannot take exercise, except in the way of play and diversion: ergo, such playfulness cannot be sinful. Let them be kept from evil words, lying, swearing, and scurrility; and all the rest may be innocent.