John Trapp on Zechariah 8:4-5

Verſe 4. There ſhall yet old men and old women dwell in the ſtreets of Ieruſalem] Becauſe the Ancient of dayes the juſt Lord is in the middeſt thereof Zeph 3.5.Iam. 1.17. and he will give every good gift and perfect giving, that is, both Temporall and Spirituall. The F[illegible: 1 letter]ther of lights will be to His both a Sun and a Shield: and no good th[illegible: 1 letter]ng will he withhold from them that walk uprightly Pſal. 14.11. Godlneſſe hath the promiſes of both lives 1 Tim. 4.8. Chriſt is heire of all Heb. 1.2. and the Saints are his coheires Rom. Eſay 9.6. 8.17. He is the everlaſting father, and withall the Prince of [illegible: 1 letter]eace: his Children and ſubject[illegible: 1 letter] ſhall have both the upper and nether ſpring, both the bleſſing of the right hand (ſprituall bleſſings in heavenly things in Chriſt Jeſus) and alſo of the left; Riches and honour, delight and pleaſure, life and length of dayes, peace and proſperity &c. Pro. 3.16, 17. and 8.18. Pſal. 112.2, 3. Deut. 28.

and every man with his ſtaff in his hand] his third leg, as they call it: q. d. they ſhall live ſo long that they ſhall need a ſtaff, a ſervant or a ſon (ſuch as Scipio was to his old decrepit father) to leane upon; becauſe the ſtrong men the legs ſhall bow themſelves, Eccleſ. 12.3. that is, bend and buckle under their burden. They ſhall not be cut off by the devouring ſword of warr, that ſlaughter-man of mankind, that layes hepes upon heapes, and by chain-bullets cuts its way through a heap of men at once, without reſpect of old or yong.

and the ſtreets of the city ſhall be full of boyes and girles] Lads and laſſed (as the Hebrew ſeemes to ſound) that mind little elſe but play, as if, with Leviathan, they had been made to ſport, or as thoſe people of Tombutum in Africa, who are ſaid to ſpend their whole time in ſinging and dancing. But this they could not do if the times were troubleſome, and the ſouldier at his boody play according to that of Abner 2 Sam. 2.14. Let the yong men now ariſe and play before us, that is, thruſt their ſwords in their fellowes ſider ver. 16.