Zechariah:7

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* And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius that the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month , in Kislev ; * When they had sent unto Beth –el Sherezer and Regem –melech , and his men , to make entreaty before the Lord . * to say unto the priests who were in the house of the Lord of hosts , and to the prophets , saying , Shall I weep in the fifth month with abstinence , as I have done already these many years ? * Then came the word of the Lord of hosts unto me , saying , * Say unto all the people of the land , and to the priests , as followeth , When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh , already these seventy years , did ye in anywise fast for me , yea , for me ? * And if ye do eat , and if ye do drink , are ye not yourselves those that eat , and yourselves those that drink ? * Are not these the words which the Lord hath proclaimed by means of the former prophets , when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity , with her cities round about her , when inhabited the south , and the lowlands ? * And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah , saying , * Thus hath said the Lord of hosts , saying , Execute true justice , and show kindness and mercy every man to his brother ; * And defraud not the widow , or the fatherless , the stranger , or the poor ; and imagine not evil in your heart one against the other . * But they refused to listen , and turned away rebelliously the shoulder , and stopped their ears , so as not to hear ; * And their heart they rendered as an adamant , so as not to hear the law , and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent through his spirit , by means of the former prophets : wherefore came a great anger from the Lord of hosts . * And it is come to pass , that as he proclaimed , and they would not hear : so had they to call , and I would not hear , saith the Lord of hosts ; * And I resolved to scatter them with a storm –wind among all the nations that they had not known ; and the land was left desolate after them , without any one to pass through it forward or backward ; and the pleasant land have they changed into a desert .

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