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Zechariah 7

World English Bible (WEB) • 14 verses

1In the fourth year of King Darius, the LORD’s word came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.

RelatedNehemiah 1:1 · Ezra 6:14-15 · Zechariah 1:1 · Haggai 2:10 · Haggai 2:20

2The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech and their men to entreat the LORD’s favor,

RelatedZechariah 8:21 · 1 Samuel 13:12 · 1 Kings 13:6 · Jeremiah 26:19 · Zechariah 6:10 · Isaiah 60:7

3and to speak to the priests of the house of the LORD of Armies and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”

RelatedZechariah 8:19 · James 4:8-10 · Malachi 2:7 · 1 Corinthians 7:5 · Matthew 9:15 · Hosea 4:6

4Then the word of the LORD of Armies came to me, saying,

RelatedIsaiah 10:16

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?

RelatedZechariah 1:12 · Isaiah 58:4-6 · Matthew 5:16-18 · 1 Corinthians 10:31 · Zechariah 7:3 · Isaiah 1:11-12

6When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

Related1 Corinthians 11:20-21 · 1 Corinthians 11:26-29 · Colossians 3:17 · Hosea 8:13 · 1 Chronicles 29:22 · Deuteronomy 14:26

7Aren’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 South and the lowland were inhabited?’”

RelatedJeremiah 17:26 · Isaiah 1:16-20 · Jeremiah 7:23 · Jeremiah 32:44 · Isaiah 55:6-7 · Jeremiah 7:5

8The LORD’s word came to Zechariah, saying,

9“Thus has the LORD of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

RelatedMicah 6:8 · Psalms 82:2-4 · Proverbs 21:3 · Jeremiah 7:5 · Jeremiah 21:12 · Luke 11:42

10Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

RelatedJeremiah 5:28 · Deuteronomy 27:19 · 1 John 3:15 · James 5:4 · Psalms 21:11 · Isaiah 1:16-17

11But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

RelatedNehemiah 9:29 · Jeremiah 8:5 · Hosea 4:16 · Jeremiah 35:15 · Zechariah 1:4 · Acts 7:57

12Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law and the words which the LORD of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the LORD of Armies.

Related2 Chronicles 36:16 · Nehemiah 9:29-30 · Ezekiel 11:19 · Acts 28:27 · Ezekiel 36:26 · Psalms 50:17

13It 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 Armies;

RelatedProverbs 1:24-28 · Isaiah 1:15 · Jeremiah 14:12 · Jeremiah 11:11 · Micah 3:4 · Psalms 81:8-12

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.”

RelatedDeuteronomy 28:33 · Deuteronomy 28:64 · Jeremiah 23:19 · Jeremiah 5:15 · Deuteronomy 4:27 · Deuteronomy 28:49

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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.