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The LORD says he has returned to Zion and will dwell in Jerusalem, calling it the “faithful city” in Zechariah 8:3. The chapter describes old men and women sitting in the streets and children playing there in Zechariah 8:4–5. It also promises gathering the people from east and west to dwell in Jerusalem in Zechariah 8:7–8.
3Thus says Yahweh: I am returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth; and the mountain of Yahweh of Hosts, The holy mountain.
4Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
5The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets of it.
6Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: If it be marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes? says Yahweh of Hosts.
7Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
8and I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.