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Chapter 7 |
| 1 | And it came to
pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto
Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu; |
| 2 |
When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their
men, to pray before the LORD, |
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3 | And to speak unto the priests which
were in 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? |
| 4 |
Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,
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| 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? |
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6 | And when ye did eat, and
when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for
yourselves? |
| 7
| Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by
the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the
cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the
plain? |
| 8 |
And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying,
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| 9 | Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew
mercy and compassions 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. |
| 11 | But they
refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that
they should not hear. |
| 12 | Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant
stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts
hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath
from the LORD of hosts. |
| 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: |
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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. |
