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Zechariah 7:4-12
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Zechariah 7:4-12
New International Version
4 Then the word of the Lord Almighty came to me: 5 “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted(A) and mourned in the fifth and seventh(B) months for the past seventy years,(C) was it really for me that you fasted? 6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?(D) 7 Are these not the words the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets(E) when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were at rest(F) and prosperous, and the Negev and the western foothills(G) were settled?’”(H)
8 And the word of the Lord came again to Zechariah: 9 “This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice;(I) show mercy and compassion to one another.(J) 10 Do not oppress the widow(K) or the fatherless, the foreigner(L) or the poor.(M) Do not plot evil against each other.’(N)
11 “But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly(O) they turned their backs(P) and covered their ears.(Q) 12 They made their hearts as hard as flint(R) and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets.(S) So the Lord Almighty was very angry.(T)
Zechariah 7:4-12
King James Version
Zechariah 7:4-12
King James Version
4 Then came the word of the Lord of hosts unto me, saying,
5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
6 And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
7 Should ye not hear the words which the Lord hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?
8 And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying,
9 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.
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