🗞Thus saith the LORD: I return unto Zion, and 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 holy mountain. Zech8:3
כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה שַׁ֚בְתִּי אֶל־צִיּ֔וֹן וְשָׁכַנְתִּ֖י בְּת֣וֹךְ יְרֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְנִקְרְאָ֤ה יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ עִ֣יר־הָֽאֱמֶ֔ת וְהַר־יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת הַ֥ר הַקֹּֽדֶ
Jehovah, in the person of the Messiah, "will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem," which shall become the center of His governmental dealings with the world, and the place whence light and truth shall go forth unto all the nations. "And Jerusalem shall be called 'Ir haemeth, the City of Truth"; first, because it shall be the seat of the El emeth, "The God of Truth"; and, secondly, because "the remnant of Israel," which shall then dwell in it, "shall not any longer do iniquity, nor speak lies" (Zeph. 3:13), but be known throughout the earth for their truth and fidelity toward God and man. "And the mountain of Jehovah of hosts," i.e., Mount Zion, shall be called "The Holy Mountain," because there the Holy one of Israel shall once more take up His abode, and by His presence in their midst sanctify His people, so that they, too, shall be holy; and, Qodesh la-Yehovah-
"Holiness (or 'holy') unto Jehovah," shall be written, not only on their hearts and foreheads, but on all their possessions, down to the very "bells of their horses," and the "pots" which they shall use to prepare their food (14:20-21; Isa. 1:26; 60:14; 62:12).
Now follows a beautiful picture of restored and flourishing
Jerusalem. No longer shall the holy city, and the land of which it is the metropolis, be depopulated by war and other grievous calamities, and lie desolate. "The LORD of hosts says this: 'Old men and women will again sit along the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in his hand because of advanced age. The streets of the city will be filed with boys and girls playing in them." Zech. 8:4-5)
(D. Baron, Zechariah (London: Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel, 1951), 233-34.)
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