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Zechariah 7:1 (show verse)
In King Darius' fourth year, on the fourth day of Kislev, the ninth month, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah.
Zechariah 7:2 (show verse)
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech and their companions to seek the Lord's favor
Zechariah 7:3 (show verse)
by asking both the priests of the temple of the Lord who rules over all and the prophets, "Should we weep in the fifth month, fasting as we have done over the years?"
Zechariah 7:4 (show verse)
The word of the Lord who rules over all then came to me,
Zechariah 7:5 (show verse)
"Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows: 'When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months through all these seventy years, did you truly fast for me -- for me, indeed?
Zechariah 7:6 (show verse)
And now when you eat and drink, are you not doing so for yourselves?'"
Zechariah 7:7 (show verse)
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 Shephelah were also populated?
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Zechariah 7:8 (show verse)
Again the word of the Lord came to Zechariah:
Zechariah 7:9 (show verse)
"The Lord who rules over all said, 'Exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other.
Zechariah 7:10 (show verse)
You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow human being.'
Zechariah 7:11 (show verse)
"But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.
Deafness » Spiritual
Desolation » Why desolation comes
ears » Of the wicked » Stopped against God's word
Hearing » Who the lord will not hear
Ignorance » Of God's word » Wilful
Prayer, answers to » Denied to those who » Hear not the law
Rebellion against God » Exhibited in » Refusing to hearken to him
Self-will » Exhibited in » Refusing to listen to the messengers of God
Self-will and stubbornness » Exhibited in » Refusing to hearken to the messengers of God
Spiritual » Crowns » Deafness
Desolation » Why desolation comes
ears » Of the wicked » Stopped against God's word
Hearing » Who the lord will not hear
Ignorance » Of God's word » Wilful
Prayer, answers to » Denied to those who » Hear not the law
Rebellion against God » Exhibited in » Refusing to hearken to him
Self-will » Exhibited in » Refusing to listen to the messengers of God
Self-will and stubbornness » Exhibited in » Refusing to hearken to the messengers of God
Spiritual » Crowns » Deafness
Zechariah 7:12 (show verse)
Indeed, they made their heart as hard as diamond, so that they could not obey the Torah and the other words the Lord who rules over all had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, the Lord who rules over all had poured out great wrath.
Adamant » Flint
The call of God » Rejection of, leads to » Temporal judgments
Desolation » Why desolation comes
Hardness (of heart) » Examples of
Hearing » Who the lord will not hear
Ignorance » Of God's word » Wilful
Message despised » Of the word of God
Prayer, answers to » Denied to those who » Hear not the law
Rejection » Of Christ » Of the word of God
Word » As weapon » Despised
The call of God » Rejection of, leads to » Temporal judgments
Desolation » Why desolation comes
Hardness (of heart) » Examples of
Hearing » Who the lord will not hear
Ignorance » Of God's word » Wilful
Message despised » Of the word of God
Prayer, answers to » Denied to those who » Hear not the law
Rejection » Of Christ » Of the word of God
Word » As weapon » Despised
Zechariah 7:13 (show verse)
"'It then came about that just as I cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,' the Lord Lord who rules over all had said.
Zechariah 7:14 (show verse)
Rather, I will sweep them away in a storm into all the nations they are not familiar with.' Thus the land had become desolate because of them, with no one crossing through or returning, for they had made the fruitful land a waste."