then used throughout in the cultic blueprint of the future in Ezekiel 40–48.68 Zechariah 8:8—the sole example of the covenant formula in the prophetic books outside Jeremiah and Ezekiel—is interesting. Here at the end of the series of sayings in 8:1–8 there is a tersely formulated promise that those who have been scattered will be brought back to Jerusalem (vv. 7–8), and this promise flows into the covenant formula: ‘They shall be a people for me, and I will be God for them in faithfulness and in