Thematic Bible
Zechariah 7:1 (show verse)
The word of Jehovah came to Zechariah in the fourth year of King Darius. It was the fourth day of the ninth month that is Chislev.
Zechariah 7:2 (show verse)
Now they of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to request the favor of Jehovah.
Zechariah 7:3 (show verse)
Therefore speak to the priests of the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and say to the prophets: Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these many years?
Zechariah 7:4 (show verse)
Then came the word of Jehovah of Hosts to me:
Zechariah 7:5 (show verse)
Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying: 'For the past seventy years did you fast for me when you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months?
Zechariah 7:6 (show verse)
Did you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
Zechariah 7:7 (show verse)
Should you hear the words that Jehovah cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities near her and the South and the lowland were inhabited?'
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Zechariah 7:8 (show verse)
And the word of Jehovah came to Zechariah:
Zechariah 7:9 (show verse)
Jehovah of Hosts has spoken: Every man should execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion to his brother!
Zechariah 7:10 (show verse)
Do not oppress the widow. Do not oppress the fatherless. Do not oppress the stranger and do not oppress the poor. And you should not devise evil in your heart against your brother.
Zechariah 7:11 (show verse)
They refused to pay heed, turned a stubborn shoulder (resisted), and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
Zechariah 7:12 (show verse)
They made their hearts hard like flint and would not listen to the law, and the words that Jehovah of Hosts sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Great anger came from Jehovah of Hosts!
Zechariah 7:13 (show verse)
I cried, and they would not listen. Now they will cry, and I will not listen,' said Jehovah of Hosts!
Zechariah 7:14 (show verse)
I will scatter them with a whirlwind among the nations that they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned. They tread down the pleasant land and made it desolate.'