ZECHARIAH Chapter 7 (GNB)
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7:1
In the fourth year that Darius was emperor, on the fourth day of the ninth
month (the month of Kislev), the LORD gave me a message. |
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7:2
The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to the
Temple of the LORD Almighty to pray for the LORD's blessing |
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7:3
and to ask the priests and the prophets this question: "Should we
continue to mourn because of the destruction of the Temple, by fasting in the
fifth month as we have done for so many years now?" |
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7:4
This is the message of the LORD that came to me. |
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7:5
He said, "Tell the people of the land and the priests that when they
fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months during these seventy
years, it was not in honor of me. |
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7:6
And when they ate and drank, it was for their own satisfaction." |
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7:7
This is what the LORD said through the earlier prophets at the time when
Jerusalem was prosperous and filled with people and when there were many
people living not only in the towns around the city but also in the southern
region and in the western foothills. |
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7:8
The LORD gave this message to Zechariah: |
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7:9
"Long ago I gave these commands to my people: 'You must see that justice
is done, and must show kindness and mercy to one another. |
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7:10
Do not oppress widows, orphans, foreigners who live among you, or anyone else
in need. And do not plan ways of harming one another.' |
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7:11
"But my people stubbornly refused to listen. They closed their minds |
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7:12
and made their hearts as hard as rock. Because they would not listen to the
teaching which I sent through the prophets who lived long ago, I became very
angry. |
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7:13
Because they did not listen when I spoke, I did not answer when they prayed. |
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7:14
Like a storm I swept them away to live in foreign countries. This good land
was left a desolate place, with no one living in it." |
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