Verse
WEB
World English Bible
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
It
happened
in the fourth year of king Darius that
the word of Yahweh
came to Zechariah in
the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
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.
The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and
their men, to entreat
Yahweh's
favor,
Now
the people of Bethel had
sent Sharezer and Regem -
melech, along
with
their men, to plead
before
the
LORD
and
to
speak
to
the priests of the house of Yahweh
of Hosts, and
to
the prophets, saying,
"
Should I weep in the fifth month, separating
myself,
as I have done these so
many years? "
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? ”
Then the word of Yahweh
of Hosts came to me, saying,
Then the word of the
LORD
of Hosts came to me, saying,
"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?
“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
?
When
you
eat,
and when you drink
, don't
you eat
for
yourselves,
and
drink
for yourselves?
And when you were
eating
and
drinking
, were
you not
doing
so
simply
for yourselves?
Aren't
these the words which
Yahweh
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? '"
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? ’”
The word of Yahweh
came to Zechariah, saying,
Then
the word of the
LORD
came to Zechariah, saying,
"Thus
has
Yahweh
of Hosts spoken,
saying,
'Execute
true judgment,
and
show kindness
and compassion every
man
to his
brother
.
“This
is
what
the
LORD
of Hosts says:
‘Administer
true justice.
Show loving
devotion
and compassion to one
another
.
Don't
oppress the widow ,
nor
the fatherless, the foreigner ,
nor
the poor ;
and let
none
of
you
devise
evil against
his
brother
in your heart
. '
Do
not
oppress the widow or
the fatherless, the foreigner or
the poor .
And do
not
plot
evil in your hearts
against
one
another
. ’
But they refused to listen,
and turned their
backs,
and
stopped their ears ,
that
they
might
not
hear
.
But they refused to pay
attention
and turned a
stubborn
shoulder;
they
stopped up
their ears from
hearing
.
Yes,
they made their hearts as
hard
as
flint ,
lest
they
might
hear
the law ,
and
the words which
Yahweh
of Hosts had sent by his Spirit by
the former
prophets. Therefore great wrath
came from Yahweh
of Hosts.
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.
It
has
come
to
pass
that,
as he
called ,
and they refused
to
listen, so they will
call,
and
I will
not listen, "
said
Yahweh
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 .
"
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 made
the pleasant land desolate
. "
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
. ”
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