Zechariah 7:7-9

New English Translation

⁷ Should you not have obeyed the words that the Lord cried out through the former prophets when Jerusalem was peacefully inhabited and her surrounding cities, the Negev, and the foothills^[a] were also populated?’”

⁸ Again the Lord’s message came to Zechariah: ⁹ “The Lord of Heaven’s Armies said, ‘Exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other.