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Zechariah 7:7

Verse 7 of 14. The 7th of 14 chapters in Zechariah, in The Minor Prophets.

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?”

4Then the word of the LORD 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?

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

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?’”

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.

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.’

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

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.