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1 In the fourth year of king Darius, Jehovah’s
word came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of
Chislev. 2 The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their
men, to entreat Jehovah’s favor, 3 and to speak to the priests of the
house of Jehovah of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the
fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”
4 Then the word of Jehovah of Armies came to me,
saying, 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? 6 When you
eat, and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves, and drink for
yourselves? 7 Aren’t these the words which Jehovah 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?’”
8 Jehovah’s word came to Zechariah, saying, 9 “Thus
has Jehovah of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness
and compassion every man to his brother. 10 Don’t oppress the widow, nor
the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil
against his brother in your heart.’ 11 But they refused to listen, and
turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. 12 Yes,
they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the
words which Jehovah of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets.
Therefore great wrath came from Jehovah of Armies. 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 Jehovah of Armies; 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.”
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