Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
ASV
American Standard Version
In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the
LORD
came to
Zechariah on
the fourth day of the ninth month, the
month
of
Chislev.
And
it
came
to
pass
in the fourth year of king Darius, that
the word of Jehovah
came unto
Zechariah in
the fourth `
day '
of the ninth month, even
in
Chislev.
Now the
people
of Bethel
had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along
with
their men, to plead
before
the LORD
Now `they
of '
Beth-el
had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, and
their men, to entreat
the favor
of
Jehovah,
by
asking
the priests of the house of the
LORD
of Hosts, as
well
as
the prophets, “
Should I weep and
fast
in the fifth month, as I have done these many years? ”
`and'
to
speak
unto
the priests of the house of Jehovah
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 the word of the
LORD
of Hosts came
to
me, saying,
Then came
the word of Jehovah
of hosts unto
me, saying,
“Ask
all the people of the land and the priests, ‘
When you
fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months
for
these seventy years, was
it
really
for
Me that
you
fasted
?
Speak
unto
all the people of the land ,
and to
the priests, saying,
When ye
fasted and mourned in the fifth and in
the
seventh `month',
even
these seventy years, did
ye
at
all
fast
unto
me ,
even
to
me
?
And when you
were
eating
and drinking
, were
you
not doing
so
simply
for yourselves?
And when ye
eat,
and when
ye
drink
, do
not ye
eat
for yourselves ,
and
drink
for
yourselves
?
Are
these
not the words that
the
LORD
proclaimed
through
the earlier
prophets, when Jerusalem and its
surrounding
towns
were
populous
and prosperous
, and the Negev
and the foothills
were inhabited? ’”
`Should
ye'
not `hear'
the words which
Jehovah
cried
by
the former
prophets, when Jerusalem was
inhabited
and in
prosperity,
and the
cities
thereof
round
about
her
, and the South
and the lowland
were inhabited?
Then
the word of the
LORD
came to
Zechariah, saying,
And
the word of Jehovah
came unto
Zechariah, saying,
“This
is
what
the
LORD
of Hosts says:
‘Administer
true justice.
Show loving
devotion
and compassion to one
another.
Thus
hath
Jehovah
of hosts spoken,
saying,
Execute
true judgment,
and
show kindness
and compassion every
man
to his
brother;
Do
not
oppress the widow or
the fatherless, the foreigner
or
the poor .
And do
not
plot
evil in your hearts
against
one
another
. ’
and
oppress not
the widow ,
nor
the fatherless, the sojourner,
nor
the poor ;
and let
none
of
you
devise
evil against
his
brother
in your heart
.
But they refused to pay
attention
and turned
a
stubborn
shoulder ;
they
stopped up
their ears from
hearing
.
But they refused to hearken,
and pulled
away
the
shoulder ,
and
stopped their ears ,
that
they
might
not
hear
.
They made their hearts like
flint
and
would
not
listen
to
the law or
to
the words that
the
LORD
of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through
the earlier
prophets .
Therefore great
anger
came from the
LORD
of Hosts.
Yea,
they made their hearts as
an
adamant
stone,
lest
they
should
hear
the law ,
and
the words which
Jehovah
of hosts had sent by his Spirit by
the former
prophets :
therefore there
came great
wrath
from Jehovah
of hosts.
And just
as I
had
called
and they would not listen
, so when
they called
I would
not listen
, says
the
LORD
of Hosts .
And it
is
come
to
pass
that,
as he
cried,
and they would not hear
, so they shall
cry,
and
I will
not hear
, said
Jehovah
of hosts ;
But I scattered
them with a whirlwind among all the nations that
they had
not known ,
and
the land was left
desolate behind
them so that no one
could
come
or
go.
Thus
they turned
the pleasant land into
a
desolation
. ”
but I will
scatter
them with a whirlwind among all the nations which
they have
not known .
Thus
the land was desolate after
them ,
so that no man
passed
through
nor
returned:
for
they laid
the pleasant land desolate
.
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