And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying,

Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, [a]Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion, 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:9 He showeth that they did not fast with a sincere heart, but for hypocrisy, and that it was not done of a pure religion, because that they lacked these offices of charity, which should have declared that they were godly, Matt. 23:23.

And the word of the Lord came again to Zechariah: “This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice;(A) show mercy and compassion to one another.(B) 10 Do not oppress the widow(C) or the fatherless, the foreigner(D) or the poor.(E) Do not plot evil against each other.’(F)

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