OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 8

Zechariah 7:8

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The LORD’s word came to Zechariah, saying,

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Zechariah 7:5–11

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?

6

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

7

Aren’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?’”

8
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The 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.

10

Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

11

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

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