Read Zechariah 7

World English Bible · 14 verses

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

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