Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James 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 the LORD came unto
Zechariah in
the fourth day of the ninth month, even
in
Chisleu;
Now
the
people
of
Bethel
had sent Sharezer
and Regem-melech
, along
with
their men, to plead
before the LORD
When
they
had sent unto
the
house
of
God
Sherezer
and Regemmelech
, and
their men, to pray
before the LORD ,
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 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 the word of the LORD of Hosts came
to
me, saying,
Then came
the word of the LORD 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 seventh month,
even
those
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
did
eat,
and when
ye
did
drink
, did
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
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
?
Then
the word of the LORD came to
Zechariah, saying,
And
the word of the LORD came unto
Zechariah, saying,
“This
is
what
the LORD of Hosts says:
‘Administer
true justice.
Show
loving
devotion
and compassion
to one
another.
Thus
speaketh
the LORD of hosts ,
saying,
Execute
true judgment,
and shew
mercy
and
compassions
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 stranger,
nor
the poor ;
and let
none
of
you
imagine
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
should
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
the LORD of hosts hath
sent in
his spirit by
the former
prophets :
therefore came a
great
wrath
from the LORD 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 .
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 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 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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