Zechariah 8:9-11

International Children’s Bible

⁹ This is what the Lord of heaven’s armies says: “Be strong, you who are hearing these words today. The prophets spoke these words when the foundation was laid for the building of the Temple. ¹⁰ Before that time there was no money to hire men or animals. People could not safely come and go because of the enemies. I had turned everyone against his neighbor. ¹¹ But I will not do to these people who are left alive what I did in the past,” says the Lord of heaven’s armies.