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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Zechariah 8:4 Catholic Bible: Once again old men and women, so old that they use canes when they walk, will be sitting in the city squares. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/zechariah/8-4.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/zechariah/8-4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div 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the city squares. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/zechariah/8.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Thus says the LORD of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of their great age.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/zechariah/8.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Very old people with walking sticks will once again sit around in Jerusalem, <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/zechariah/8.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Thus says the LORD of hosts: Old men and old women will again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of old age.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/zechariah/8.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem: and every man with his staff in his hand through multitude of days.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem: and every man with his staff in his hand through multitude of days.</p><p class="hdg">There.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/2-31.htm">1 Samuel 2:31</a> Behold the days come: and I will cut off thy arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/5-26.htm">Job 5:26</a> Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/42-17.htm">Job 42:17</a> and he died an old man, and full of days.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/65-20.htm">Isaiah 65:20-22</a> There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../lamentations/2-20.htm">Lamentations 2:20,21,22</a> Res. Behold, O Lord, and consider whom thou hast thus dealt with: shall women then eat their own fruit, their children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../lamentations/5-11.htm">Lamentations 5:11-15</a> They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/12-22.htm">Hebrews 12:22</a> But you are come to mount Sion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels,</p><p class="hdg">very age.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/zechariah/8.htm">The Restoration of Jerusalem</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">3</span>Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I am returned to Sion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, The sanctified mountain. <span class="reftext">4</span><span class="highl">Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem: and every man with his staff in his hand through multitude of days.</span><span class="reftext">5</span>And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls, playing in the streets thereof.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_samuel/2-32.htm">1 Samuel 2:32</a></span><br />And thou shalt see thy rival in the temple, in all the prosperity of Israel, and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/65-20.htm">Isaiah 65:20</a></span><br />There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/31-13.htm">Jeremiah 31:13</a></span><br />Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, the young men and old men together: and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them joyful after their sorrow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/31-24.htm">Jeremiah 31:24</a></span><br />And Juda and all his cities shall dwell therein together: the husbandman and they that drive the flocks.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../zechariah/2-4.htm">Zechariah 2:4</a></span><br />And he said to him: Run, speak to this young man, saying: Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls, by reason of the multitude of men, and of the beasts in the midst thereof.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" 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