Zechariah 7:12-14

EasyEnglish Bible

¹² They decided that they would not listen to God's rules or to the messages from the prophets. But the Lord Almighty had sent those messages by His Spirit. So I, the Lord Almighty, was very angry.

¹³ When I spoke to them, they did not listen. So when they prayed to me, I did not listen to them, says the Lord Almighty. ¹⁴ As a storm takes things away, I took my people away to strange countries. The country that they left became an empty country. Nobody lived in it. That is how they made the good country an empty country.’