Zechariah:7

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* And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius Dar #yavesh #, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month , even in Chisleu ; * When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech Regem , and their men , to pray before the LORD , * And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts , and to the prophets , saying , Should I weep in the fifth month , separating myself , as I have done these so many years ? * Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me , saying , * Speak unto all the people of the land , and to the priests , saying , When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month , even those seventy years , did ye at all fast unto me , even to me ? * And when ye did eat , and when ye did drink , did not ye eat for yourselves , and drink for yourselves ? * Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets , when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity , and the cities thereof round about her , when men inhabited the south and the plain ? * And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah , saying , * Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts , saying , Execute true judgment , and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother : * And oppress not the widow , nor the fatherless , the stranger , nor the poor ; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart . * But they refused to hearken , and pulled away the shoulder , and stopped their ears , that they should not hear . * Yea , they made their hearts as an adamant stone , lest they should hear the law , and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets : therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts . * Therefore it is come to pass , that as he cried , and they would not hear ; so they cried , and I would not hear , saith the LORD of hosts : * But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not . Thus the land was desolate after them , that no man passed through nor returned : for they laid the pleasant land desolate .

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