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12 They made their hearts adamant[a] in order not to hear the law[b] and the words that Yahweh of hosts had sent by his spirit through[c] the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of hosts. 13 ‘Thus, just as I[d] called and they would not hear, so they will call and I will not hear,’ says Yahweh of hosts. 14 ‘And I scattered them with a wind among all the nations that they had not known; the land was made desolate behind them— no one crossing through it or returning—and they made the desirable land[e] a desolation.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:12 Literally “They set their hearts like hard stone”
  2. Zechariah 7:12 Hebrew torah
  3. Zechariah 7:12 Literally “by the hand of”
  4. Zechariah 7:13 Hebrew “he called” (but still referring to Yahweh)
  5. Zechariah 7:14 Hebrew “land of desire,” but this could be understood as a land characterized by desire rather than a desirable land