Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
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
cometh
to
pass,
in the fourth year of Darius the king
hath
a
word of Jehovah
been
unto
Zechariah ,
in
the fourth of the ninth month, in
Chisleu
.
Now
the
people
of
Bethel
had
sent
Sharezer
and Regem-melech, along
with
their
men, to plead
before
the LORD
And Beth-El
sendeth
Sherezer
and
Regem-Melech, and
its
men, to appease
the face
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? ”
speaking
unto
the priests who
`are'
at
the house of Jehovah
of Hosts, and
unto
the prophets, saying,
`Do
I weep in the fifth month --
being
separated
--
as I have done these so
many years? '
Then
the
word of the
LORD
of Hosts came
to
me, saying ,
And
there
is
a
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 unto
the priests
, saying:
And when you
were
eating
and drinking
, were
you
not doing
so
simply
for
yourselves
?
When
ye
fasted
with
mourning
in
the
fifth
and in
the
seventh
`months'
--
even
these
seventy
years
--
did
ye
keep
the
fast
`to'
Me
--
Me?
And
when ye
eat,
and when
ye
drink
, is
it
not ye
who
are
eating,
and
ye
who
are
drinking
?
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
? ’”
`
Are not `these'
the words that Jehovah
proclaimed by
the hand
of
the
former
prophets, in
Jerusalem's
being
inhabited,
and `in'
safety,
and its
cities
round
about
it
, and the south
and the plain
--
abiding
? '
Then
the
word of the
LORD
came
to
Zechariah, saying ,
And
there
is
a
word of Jehovah
unto
Zechariah, saying :
“This
is
what
the
LORD
of Hosts says
: ‘Administer
true justice.
Show
loving
devotion
and compassion
to
one another.
`Thus
spake
Jehovah
of Hosts ,
saying
: True judgment
judge
ye,
And kindness
and
mercy
do
one with
another.
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
widow ,
and
fatherless, Sojourner,
and
poor ,
ye
do
not
oppress,
And the
calamity
of
one
another
ye
do not devise
in your heart
.
But
they refused
to pay
attention
and turned
a stubborn
shoulder ;
they
stopped
up
their ears from
hearing.
And
they refuse
to attend,
And they
give
a refractory
shoulder ,
And
their ears have
made
heavy
against
hearing.
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.
And
their
heart
they have
made adamant,
Against
hearing
the law ,
and
the words ,
That Jehovah
of Hosts sent by His Spirit ,
By
the hand
of
the
former
prophets ,
And
their
is
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
cometh
to
pass,
as He
called ,
And they have
not hearkened
, So do
they call,
and
I do
not hearken
, 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 .”
And
I toss
them on
all the nations ,
That they have
not known, The land hath
been
desolate behind them ,
Of
any
passing
by
and
turning
back,
And
they set
a
desirable
land for
a desolation !
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