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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
to Zacharias, in the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Casleu.
2 When Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and the men that were
with him, sent to the house of God, to entreat the face of the Lord:
3 To speak to the priests of the house of the Lord of
hosts, and to the prophets, saying: Must I weep in the fifth month, or must I
sanctify myself as I have now done for many years?
4 And the word of the Lord of hosts 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 the seventh
month for these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me?
6 And when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for
yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
7 Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the
hand of the former prophets, when Jerusalem as yet was inhabited, and was
wealthy, both itself and the cities round about it, and there were inhabitants
towards the south, and in the plain?
8 And the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, saying:
9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge ye true
judgment, and shew ye mercy and compassion every man to his brother.
10 And oppress not the widow, and the fatherless, and
the stranger, and the poor: and let not a man devise evil in his heart against
his brother.
11 But they would not hearken, and they turned away the
shoulder to depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear.
12 And they made their heart as the adamant stone, lest
they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts sent in his
spirit by the hand of the former prophets: so a great indignation came from the
Lord of hosts.
13 And it came to pass that as he spoke, and they heard
not: so shall they cry, and I will not hear, saith the Lord of hosts.
14 And I dispersed them throughout all kingdoms, which
they know not: and the land was left desolate behind them, so that no man
passed through or returned: and they changed the delightful land into a
wilderness.
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