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ZECHARIAH
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Chapter 7
Zech NHEB 7:1  It happened in the fourth year of king Darius that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
Zech NHEB 7:2  The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat the Lord's favor,
Zech NHEB 7:3  and to speak to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?"
Zech NHEB 7:4  Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,
Zech NHEB 7:5  "Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
Zech NHEB 7:6  When you eat, and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Zech NHEB 7:7  Aren't these the words which the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the Negev and the lowland were inhabited?'"
Zech NHEB 7:8  The word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,
Zech NHEB 7:9  "Thus has the Lord of hosts spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
Zech NHEB 7:10  Do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'
Zech NHEB 7:11  But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
Zech NHEB 7:12  Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.
Zech NHEB 7:13  It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said the Lord of hosts;
Zech NHEB 7:14  "but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."