Zechariah 8:16

Translations

Modern

These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,

Traditional

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:

Literal

These are the things that you will do: Speak the truth, every man with his neighbor; in truth and judgment of peace render judgment in your gates;

Latin

Hæc sunt ergo verba quæ facietis: loquimini veritatem unusquisque cum proximo suo: veritatem et judicium pacis judicate in portis vestris.

Original

Hebrew

English

These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,

Notes

Zechariah 8:16

God expects his people to act with honesty and fairness (see Ephesians 4:25).
your gates: Legal proceedings took place at the city or temple gates (see Deuteronomy 21:19; 25:7).

Zechariah 8:1–23

This part of Zechariah’s sermons links to the previous section through fasting and the ethical demands of a covenant with the Lord (Zechariah 7:8–10; 8:16–17). Questions about fasting in 7:2–7 are answered in 8:18–19. The tone and message shift from warning and judgment to encouragement and renewal. Fasting will change to feasting (Zechariah 8:19).

Zechariah 7:1–8:23

These sermons provide a transition between the visions of the present (chapters 1–6) and those of the near future (chapters 9–11) and the more distant future (chapters 12–14).

Chapter 7 talks about fasting due to past disasters. Chapter 8 focuses on feasting for future blessings.

Theme notes and profiles

Returning to the Lord

Events

Prophecies of Zechariahc. 520 BC

Related verses

Ephesians 4:25
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
Zechariah 7:9
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
Psalm 15:2
He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart,
Deuteronomy 10:12–13
And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Luke 3:8–14
Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
Zechariah 8:19
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”
Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
Proverbs 12:17
He who speaks the truth declares what is right, but a false witness speaks deceit.
Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
Proverbs 12:19
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.
Deuteronomy 11:7–8
For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.
Ephesians 4:17
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

Zechariah 8:16

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