“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.”
These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these
by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth m
So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched ag
You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,
In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and Y
So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will
On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain
as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and
In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and one of the
So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will
They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new
In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jew