Zechariah 8:21

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

And the inhabitants of one city, shall go, unto them of another, saying, Let us be going on to pacify the face of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of hosts, - I also, will go!

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
the residents of one city will go to another, saying: Let’s go at once to plead for the Lord’s favor and to seek the Lord of Armies. I am also going.

Hebrew Names Version
and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, 'Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of Hosts. I will go also.'

King James Version (1611)
And the inhabitants of one citie shall goe to another, saying, Let vs goe speedily to pray before the Lord, and to seeke the Lord of hostes: I will goe also.

King James Version
And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord , and to seek the Lord of hosts: I will go also.

English Standard Version
The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord and to seek the Lord of hosts; I myself am going.'

New American Standard Bible
'The inhabitants of one city will go to another, saying, "Let's go at once to plead for the favor of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of armies; I also will go."

New Century Version
People from one city will go and say to those from another city, ‘We are going to pray to the Lord and to ask the Lord All-Powerful for help. Come and go with us.'

Amplified Bible
'The inhabitants of one [city] will go to another, saying, "Let us go at once to ask the favor of the LORD and to seek the LORD of hosts. I will go also."

Geneva Bible (1587)
And they that dwell in one citie, shal go to another, saying, Vp, let vs go & pray before the Lord, and seeke the Lord of hostes: I wil go also.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, "Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts; I will also go."

Legacy Standard Bible
The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, "Let us go at once to entreat the favor of Yahweh and to seek Yahweh of hosts; I will also go."

Berean Standard Bible
and the residents of one city will go to another, saying: 'Let us go at once to plead before the LORD and to seek the LORD of Hosts. I myself am going.'

Contemporary English Version
Those of one town will go to another and say, "We're going to ask the Lord All-Powerful to treat us with kindness. Come and join us."

Complete Jewish Bible
the inhabitants of one city will travel to another and say, "We must go to ask Adonai 's favor and consult Adonai -Tzva'ot. I'll go too."

Darby Translation
and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to supplicate Jehovah, and to seek Jehovah of hosts: I will go also.

Easy-to-Read Version
People from different cities will greet each other and say, ‘We are going to worship the Lord All-Powerful.' And the other person will say, ‘I would like to go with you!'"

George Lamsa Translation
And the inhabitants of one city shall come to another, saying, Let us go and pray before the LORD and to seek the LORD of hosts; I will go also.

Good News Translation
Those from one city will say to those from another, ‘We are going to worship the Lord Almighty and pray for his blessing. Come with us!'

Lexham English Bible
And the inhabitants of one city will go to another city, saying, "Let us go immediately to entreat the favor of Yahweh, to seek Yahweh of hosts—I also will go!"

Literal Translation
And those living in one shall go to another, saying, Let us go at once to seek the favor of the face of Jehovah, and to seek Jehovah of Hosts; I will go also.

American Standard Version
and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Jehovah, and to seek Jehovah of hosts: I will go also.

Bible in Basic English
And the people of one town go to another and say, Let us certainly go with a request for grace from the Lord, and to give worship to the Lord of armies, then I will go with you.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying: Let us go speedily to entreat the favour of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts; I will go also.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they that dwell in one citie shall go to another saying, Up, let vs go and pray before the Lorde, let vs seeke the Lorde of hoastes: I wyll go with you.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the inhabitants of five cities shall come together to one city, saying, Let us go to make supplication to the Lord, and to seek the face of the Lord Almighty; I will go also.

English Revised Version
and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favour of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.

World English Bible
and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, 'Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Hosts. I will go also.'

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and the dwelleris schulen go, oon to an other, and seie, Go we, and biseche the face of the Lord, and seke we the Lord of oostis; also I shal go.

Update Bible Version
and the inhabitants of one [city] shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of hosts: I will go also.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the inhabitants of one [city] shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.

New English Translation
The inhabitants of one will go to another and say, "Let's go up at once to ask the favor of the Lord , to seek the Lord who rules over all. Indeed, I'll go with you."'

New King James Version
The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, "Let us continue to go and pray before the LORD, And seek the LORD of hosts. I myself will go also."

New Living Translation
The people of one city will say to the people of another, ‘Come with us to Jerusalem to ask the Lord to bless us. Let's worship the Lord of Heaven's Armies. I'm determined to go.'

New Life Bible
The people of one city will say to another, "Let us go at once and pray to the Lord and ask for His favor. I will go also."

New Revised Standard
the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, "Come, let us go to entreat the favor of the Lord , and to seek the Lord of hosts; I myself am going."

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the inhabitants go one to another, saying: Let us go, and entreat the face of the Lord, and let us seek the Lord of hosts: I also will go.

Revised Standard Version
the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, 'Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts; I am going.'

Young's Literal Translation
Yea, gone have inhabitants of one To another, saying: We go diligently, To appease the face of Jehovah, To seek Jehovah of Hosts -- I go, even I.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and they that dwell in one cite, shal go to another, sayenge: Vp, let vs go, and praye before the LORDE, let vs seke the LORDE of hoostes, I wil go with you.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ And the word of Yahweh of hosts came unto me, saying: ¹⁹ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts - The fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the eleventh, shall become to the house of Judah a gladness and a rejoicing, and pleasant appointed meetings, - But, truth and peace, see that ye love. ²⁰ Thus, saith Yahweh of hoses, - It shall yet be that there shall come in peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities; ²¹ And the inhabitants of one city, shall go, unto them of another, saying, Let us be going on to pacify the face of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of hosts, - I also, will go! ²² So shall enter many peoples, and strong nations, to seek Yahweh of hosts in Jerusalem, - and to pacify the face of Yahweh. ²³ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, In those days, it shall be that ten men out of all the tongues of the nations, shall take hold, - yea take hold of the skirt of every one that is a Jew, saying - We will go with you! For we have heard that , God, is with you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Let: Psalms 122:1-9

speedily: or, continually, Heb. going, Hosea 6:3

pray before the Lord: Heb. intreat the face of the Lord, Zechariah 7:2

I will: Psalms 103:22, Psalms 146:1, Psalms 146:2

Reciprocal: Numbers 10:29 - come 2 Chronicles 15:9 - they saw Song of Solomon 6:1 - that Jeremiah 50:4 - seek the Ezekiel 47:9 - a very great Zechariah 9:1 - when John 1:37 - and they Revelation 22:17 - let him that heareth

Cross-References

Genesis 3:17
And, to the man, he said, Because thou didst hearken to the voice of thy wife, and so didst eat of the tree as to which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, Accursed be the ground for thy sake, In pain, shalt thou eat of it, all the days of thy life;

Genesis 4:12
Though thou till the ground, it shall not go on to give its vigour to thee. A wanderer and a fugitive, shalt thou be in the earth.

Genesis 5:29
and he called his name Noah saying, - This, one shall give us rest from our work, And from the grievous toil of our hands, By reason of the ground which Yahweh hath cursed,

Genesis 6:5
Then Yahweh saw that great, was the wickedness of man in the earth, and that, every purpose of the devices of his heart, was only wicked all the day;

Genesis 6:17
And, I, behold me! bringing in the flood - even waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh wherein is the spirit of life, from under the heavens, - everything that is in the earth, shall cease to breathe:

Genesis 8:1
And God remembered Noah, and all the wild - beasts and all the tame-beasts that were with him in the ark, - and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided;

Genesis 8:2
and the fountains of the roaring-deep were shut, and the windows of the heavens, - and the heavy rain was restrained from the heavens;

Genesis 8:3
and the waters returned from off the earth they went on returning, - and so the waters decreased at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 8:6
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made;

Genesis 8:7
and sent forth a raven, - and it kept going forth and returning, until the drying up of the waters from off the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the inhabitants of one [city] shall go to another,.... Which shows their concern for the spiritual welfare of each other, their zeal for the honour and glory of God, and their readiness to attend divine worship:

saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord; for pardoning, justifying, and sanctifying grace which shows their sense of need of these things, and that they are only to be had of the Lord; and that their case required haste, and would admit of no delay:

and to seek the Lord of hosts: by prayer and supplication, as before: the Chaldee paraphrase is, "to seek doctrine from the Lord of hosts"; to learn the truths of his Gospel; to know his will, and be informed of the right way of worshipping him, as well as to seek to Christ for life and salvation:

I will go also; that is, "this shall say to that", as the Targum supplies it; one shall say to another, and express himself in such language, by way of example and encouragement.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The inhabitants of one city shall go to another - It is one unresting extension of the fairly, the restlessness of faith and love. Osorius: “They shall not be satisfied with their own salvation, careless about the salvation of others; they shall employ all labor and industry, with wondrous love, to provide for the salvation of others as if it were their own.” It is a marvelous stirring of minds. Missionary efforts, so familiar with us as to be a household word, were unknown then. The time was not yet come. “Before the faith” in Christ came, the Jewish people were not to be the converters of mankind. They were to await for Him, the Redeemer of the world, through whom and to whom they were to be first converted, and then the world through those who were of them. This mutual conversion was absolutely unknown. The prophet (see below on Zechariah 9:12) predicts certainly that it would be, and in God’s time it was. “From you,” Paul writes to a small colony in Greece, “sounded out the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad” 1 Thessalonians 1:8. “Your faith” Romans 1:8, he writes to the pagan capital of the world, “is spoken of throughout the whole world.”

Within eighty years after our Lord’s Ascension, the Roman governor of Bithynia reported, on occasion of the then persecution, that it spread as a contagion. Pliny ad. Trajan Eph. x. 97: “The contagion of that superstition traversed not cities only but villages and scattered houses too.” Before the persecution, the temples had been desolated, the solemn rites long intermitted, the sacrificed animals had very rarely found a purchaser. An impostor of the same date says, , Pontus is full of atheists and Christians.” “There is no one race of people,” it was said before the middle of the second century , “whether Barbarians or Greeks or by whatsoever name called, whether of those wandering houseless tribes who live in wagons or those pastoral people who dwell in tents, in which there are not prayers and Eucharists to the Father and Creator of all things, through the name of the crucified Jesus.” “The word of our teacher,” said another, , “abode not in Judaea alone, as philosophy in Greece; but was poured out throughout the whole world, persuading Greeks and barbarians in their several nations and villages and every city, whole houses and each hearer individually, and having brought over to the truth no few even of the very philosophers. And if any ordinary magistrate forbid the Greek philosophy, immediately it vanishes; but our teaching, immediately at its first announcement, kings and emperors and subordinate rulers and governors with all their mercenaries and countless multitudes forbid, and war against us and try to extirpate; but it the rather flourishes.”

The second century had not closed, before another said, , “We are a people of yesterday, and yet we have filled every place belonging to you, cities, islands, castles, towns, assemblies, your very camp, your tribes, companies, palace, senate, forum! We leave you your temples only. We can count your armies; our numbers in a single province will be greater.” “People cry out that the state is beset; that the Christians are in their fields, in their forts, in their islands. They mourn, as for a loss, that every sex, age, condition, and now even rank is going over to this sect.” : “On whom besides have all nations believed, except on Christ who hath already come?” Then having enumerated the nations mentioned in the Acts Acts 2:9-11, he adds, “And now the varieties of the Getulians, and the many tracts of the Moors, all the bounds of the Spains, and the divers nations of the Gauls, and places of the Britons, unreached by the Romans but subdued to Christ; of Sarmatians, Dacians, Germans, and Scythians, and of many remote nations, and many provinces and islands, unknown to us, and which we can scarce enumerate. In all which places the name of Christ, who hath already come, reigneth, seeing that before Him the gates of all cities are opened and none are shut against Him, before whom “the bars of iron are broken in pieces and the gates of brass are opened” Isaiah 45:2.

In all these places dwelleth a people called by the name of Christ. For who could reign over all, save Christ the Son of God, who was foretold as about to reign over all nations forever?” Then having contrasted the limited rule of Solomon, Darius, the Pharaohs, Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander, “the Romans who protect their own empire by the strength of their legions and are unable to extend the might of their kingdom beyond these nations (Germans, Britons, Moors, Getulians), he sums up, “but the kingdom and the Name of Christ is extended everywhere, is believed in everywhere, is worshiped by all the nations above enumerated. Everywhere He reigns, everywhere is adored, is given everywhere equally to all. With Him no king hath greater favor; no Barbarian inferior joy; no dignities or birth enhance the merit of any; to all He is equal; to all, King; to all Judge; to all, God and Lord.” A little later, a pagan owns, while calumniating, , “Those most foul rites of that impious coalition are growing throughout the whole world, as bad things come up most luxuriantly, evil ways creeping on daily.” The Christian answers . “That our number increases daily, this is no imputation of error, but a testimony to praise. For in a good mode of life, its own persevere, aliens accrue to it.”

Let us go on and on - Perseveringly, until we attain “to entreat the face of the Lord.” It is not a Theism or Monotheism, but the God, who had revealed Himself to Israel, who, when our Lord came, was worshiped in Jerusalem, to which those invited say, “I too would go with thee.” Yet not so, but the words seem to speak of that which is a special gift of the Gospel, continued progress, “forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, to press toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us go on and on” Philippians 3:13-14; whence it is a Christian proverb, , “not to go on is to go back.” : “The whole life of a good Christian is a holy longing to make progress.” “The one perfection of man is, to have found that he is not perfect.” : “If thou sayest, It sufficeth, thou art lost.” : “To be unwilling to increase, is to decrease.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 8:21. I will go also. — This is the answer of the person invited. It is a good work. We must have God for our friend. We cannot expect this unless we seek him: and as we know not what an hour may bring forth, let us go speedily.