Zechariah Chapter 7
7:1 | And it came to pass in the fourth year of ![]() ![]() |
7:2 | When they had sent unto the ![]() |
7:3 | [And] to speak unto the priests which [were] in the ![]() |
7:4 | Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying, |
7:5 | 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? |
7:6 | And when ye did eat, and when ye did ![]() ![]() |
7:7 | [Should ye] not [hear] the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when ![]() |
7:8 | And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying, |
7:9 | Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother: |
7:10 | And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine ![]() |
7:11 | But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. |
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7:13 | Therefore it is come to pass, [that] as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts: |
7:14 | But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate. |