Zechariah 8:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So in these days it is again my purpose to do good to Jerusalem and to the children of Judah: have no fear.

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  • Zech 8:13 : 13 And it will come about that, as you were a curse among the nations, O children of Judah and children of Israel, so I will give you salvation and you will be a blessing: have no fear and let your hands be strong.
  • Mic 7:18-20 : 18 Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy. 19 He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea. 20 You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.
  • Zeph 3:16-17 : 16 In that day it will be said to Jerusalem, Have no fear: O Zion, let not your hands be feeble. 17 The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.
  • Luke 12:32 : 32 Have no fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
  • Isa 43:1-2 : 1 But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine. 2 When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.
  • Jer 29:11-14 : 11 For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end. 12 And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you. 13 And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart. 14 I will be near you again, says the Lord, and your fate will be changed, and I will get you together from all the nations and from all the places where I had sent you away, says the Lord; and I will take you back again to the place from which I sent you away prisoners.
  • Jer 32:42 : 42 For the Lord has said: As I have made all this great evil come on this people, so I will send on them all the good which I said about them.
  • Mic 4:10-13 : 10 Be in pain, make sounds of grief, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth: for now you will go out of the town, living in the open country, and will come even to Babylon; there you will have salvation; there the Lord will make you free from the hands of your haters. 11 And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion. 12 But they have no knowledge of the thoughts of the Lord, their minds are not able to see his purpose: for he has got them together like stems of grain to the crushing-floor. 13 Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Zech 8:13-14
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    82%

    13 And it will come about that, as you were a curse among the nations, O children of Judah and children of Israel, so I will give you salvation and you will be a blessing: have no fear and let your hands be strong.

    14 For this is what the Lord of armies has said: As it was my purpose to do evil to you when your fathers made me angry, says the Lord of armies, and my purpose was not changed:

  • Zech 1:15-17
    3 verses
    75%

    15 And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.

    16 So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies; my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over Jerusalem.

    17 And again let your voice be loud and say, This is what the Lord of armies has said: My towns will again be overflowing with good things, and again the Lord will give comfort to Zion and take Jerusalem for himself.

  • Zech 8:11
    75%

    11 But now I will not be to the rest of this people as I was in the past, says the Lord of armies.

  • Zech 8:1
    75%

    1 And the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying,

  • Zech 8:16-18
    3 verses
    74%

    16 These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.

    17 Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.

    18 And the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying,

  • Jer 29:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10 For this is what the Lord has said: When seventy years are ended for Babylon, I will have pity on you and give effect to my good purpose for you, causing you to come back to this place.

    11 For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.

  • Zeph 3:16
    74%

    16 In that day it will be said to Jerusalem, Have no fear: O Zion, let not your hands be feeble.

  • Jer 33:14
    74%

    14 See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give effect to the good word which I have said about the people of Israel and the people of Judah.

  • Jer 18:11
    74%

    11 Now, then, say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am forming an evil thing against you, and designing a design against you: let every man come back now from his evil way, and let your ways and your doings be changed for the better.

  • Jer 13:9
    73%

    9 The Lord has said, In this way I will do damage to the pride of Judah and to the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • Jer 33:9
    73%

    9 And this town will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth, who, hearing of all the good which I am doing for them, will be shaking with fear because of all the good and the peace which I am doing for it.

  • Jer 7:3
    73%

    3 The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says, Let your ways and your doings be changed for the better and I will let you go on living in this place.

  • Jer 30:4-5
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    73%

    4 And these are the words which the Lord said about Israel and about Judah.

    5 This is what the Lord has said: A voice of shaking fear has come to our ears, of fear and not of peace.

  • Jer 31:23
    73%

    23 So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Again will these words be used in the land of Judah and in its towns, when I have let their fate be changed: May the blessing of the Lord be on you, O resting-place of righteousness, O holy mountain.

  • Zech 12:5
    72%

    5 And the families of Judah will say in their hearts, The people of Jerusalem have their strength in the Lord of armies, their God.

  • Ps 51:18
    72%

    18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.

  • Jer 3:17
    72%

    17 At that time Jerusalem will be named the seat of the Lord's kingdom; and all the nations will come together to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: and no longer will their steps be guided by the purposes of their evil hearts.

  • Zech 8:6
    72%

    6 This is what the Lord of armies has said: If this is a wonder to the rest of this people, is it a wonder to me? says the Lord of armies.

  • Jer 1:15
    72%

    15 For see, I will send for all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord; and they will come, everyone placing his high seat at the way into Jerusalem, and against its walls on every side, and against all the towns of Judah.

  • Jer 11:6
    72%

    6 And the Lord said to me, Give out these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Give ear to the words of this agreement and do them.

  • Jer 1:8
    72%

    8 Have no fear because of them: for I am with you, to keep you safe, says the Lord.

  • Hag 1:5
    72%

    5 For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.

  • Zech 8:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 This is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Zion, and will make my living-place in Jerusalem: and Jerusalem will be named The town of good faith; and the mountain of the Lord of armies The holy mountain.

    4 This is what the Lord of armies has said: There will again be old men and old women seated in the open spaces of Jerusalem, every man with his stick in his hand because he is so old.

  • Jer 6:8
    72%

    8 Undergo teaching, O Jerusalem, or my soul will be turned away from you, and I will make you a waste, an unpeopled land.

  • Joel 2:21
    72%

    21 Have no fear, O land; be glad with great joy; for the Lord has done great things.

  • Jer 4:14
    72%

    14 O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

  • Isa 8:12-13
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    72%

    12 Do not say, It is holy, about everything of which this people says, It is holy; and do not be in fear of what they go in fear of.

    13 But let the Lord of armies be holy to you, and go in fear of him, giving honour to him.

  • Hag 1:7
    72%

    7 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.

  • Zech 8:20
    72%

    20 This is what the Lord of armies has said: It will again come about that when peoples and those living in great towns come,

  • Jer 27:21
    72%

    21 For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said about the rest of the vessels in the house of the Lord and in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem:

  • Jer 18:8
    72%

    8 If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed.

  • Jer 42:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10 If you still go on living in the land, then I will go on building you up and not pulling you down, planting you and not uprooting you: for my purpose of doing evil to you has been changed.

    11 Have no fear of the king of Babylon, of whom you are now in fear; have no fear of him, says the Lord: for I am with you to keep you safe and to give you salvation from his hands.

  • Zeph 3:7
    71%

    7 I said, Certainly you will go in fear of me, and come under my training, so that whatever I may send on her may not be cut off before her eyes: but they got up early and made all their works evil.

  • Neh 5:9
    71%

    9 And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?

  • Hag 2:5
    71%

    5 The agreement which I made with you when you came out of Egypt, and my spirit, are with you still; have no fear.

  • Zech 8:9
    71%

    9 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your hands be strong, you who are now hearing these words from the mouths of the prophets, that is to say, in the days when the base of the house of the Lord of armies has been put in place for the building of the house, that is the Temple.

  • Jer 39:17
    71%

    17 But I will keep you safe on that day, says the Lord: you will not be given into the hands of the men you are fearing.

  • Deut 1:29
    71%

    29 Then I said to you, Have no fear of them.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
    71%

    8 And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.

  • Jer 4:3
    71%

    3 For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.