Zechariah 8:4 Cross References
Zechariah 8:4
4: This is what the LORD Almighty says: Once again old men and women will walk Jerusalem's streets with a cane and sit together in the city squares.
Lamentations 5:11
- Our enemies rape the women and young girls in Jerusalem and throughout the towns of Judah.
- Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and the old men are treated with contempt.
- The young men are led away to work at millstones, and the children stagger under heavy loads of wood.
- The old men no longer sit in the city gates; the young men no longer dance and sing.
- The joy of our hearts has ended; our dancing has turned to mourning.
Lamentations 2:20
- "O LORD, think about this!" Jerusalem cries. "You are doing this to your own people! Should mothers eat their little children, those they once bounced on their knees? Should priests and prophets die within the Lord's Temple?
- "See them lying in the streets--young and old, boys and girls, killed by the swords of the enemy. You have killed them in your anger, slaughtering them without mercy.
- "You have invited terrors from all around as though you were calling them to a day of feasting. In the day of the LORD's anger, no one has escaped or survived. The enemy has killed all the children I bore and raised."
Job 5:26
- You will live to a good old age. You will not be harvested until the proper time!
Isaiah 65:20
- "No longer will babies die when only a few days old. No longer will adults die before they have lived a full life. No longer will people be considered old at one hundred! Only sinners will die that young!
- In those days, people will live in the houses they build and eat the fruit of their own vineyards.
- It will not be like the past, when invaders took the houses and confiscated the vineyards. For my people will live as long as trees and will have time to enjoy their hard-won gains.
Hebrews 12:22
- No, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to thousands of angels in joyful assembly.
1 Samuel 2:31
- I will put an end to your family, so it will no longer serve as my priests. All the members of your family will die before their time. None will live to a ripe old age.
Job 42:17
- Then he died, an old man who had lived a long, good life.