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          DASV: Zechariah 7    

1 In the fourth year of king Darius, the word of the LORD came
to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, which is
called Kislev.
2 Now people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, and
their men, to seek the favor of the LORD,
3 and to speak to the priests of the house of the LORD of hosts,
and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month,
fasting as I have done for so many years?"

4 Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me:
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 last seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?
6 And when you eat and drink, are you not really eating and drinking
just for yourselves?
7 Were these not the words that the LORD proclaimed by the former
prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, as well as
its surrounding towns, and when the Negev and the Shephelah were
also inhabited?'"

8 Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah:
9 "This is what the LORD of hosts says, 'Execute true justice, and
show kindness and compassion to one another.
10 Do not oppress the widow, orphan, foreigner, or the poor. Let none
of you devise evil in your heart against one another.'
11 But they refused to listen, stubbornly turning away, covering
their ears, so that they would not have to listen.
12 They made their hearts as hard as rock, so they would not have to
obey the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by his
Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came
from the LORD of hosts.
13 So it happened that just as I called, and they refused to listen,
so now they will call out and I will refuse to listen," said the
LORD of hosts.
14 "Instead, I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations
they had not known. Thus the land became desolate behind them, so
that no one passed through it or returned to it. For they made
the pleasant land into a wasteland."

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