Verse
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
KJV
King James Version
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 .
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 ;
And
Beth-El
sendeth
Sherezer and Regem-Melech
, and its
men, to appease
the face
of
Jehovah
,
When
they
had
sent
unto
the
house
of
God
Sherezer and Regemmelech
, and their
men, to pray
before
the LORD
,
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? '
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?
And
there
is
a
word of Jehovah
of Hosts unto me, saying :
Then
came
the
word of the
LORD
of hosts unto me, saying ,
`
Speak unto all the people of the land, and unto
the priests, saying :
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?
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
?
And when ye did
eat, and when ye did
drink, did
not ye eat
for
yourselves
, and drink
for
yourselves
?
`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
? '
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?
And there
is
a
word of Jehovah
unto Zechariah, saying :
And the
word of the
LORD
came
unto Zechariah, saying ,
`
Thus spake
Jehovah
of Hosts, saying :
True judgment judge
ye
, And kindness
and
mercy do
one
with
another.
Thus speaketh
the
LORD
of hosts, saying ,
Execute
true judgment, and shew
mercy and
compassions
every
man
to
his
brother:
And widow, and
fatherless, Sojourner
, and
poor ,
ye
do
not
oppress,
And the
calamity
of one
another
ye
do
not
devise
in your heart.
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.
And
they refuse
to attend
, And they
give
a
refractory
shoulder, And their ears have
made
heavy
against
hearing
.
But
they refused
to hearken
, and pulled
away
the
shoulder, and stopped
their ears ,
that
they
should
not
hear
.
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.
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
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 .
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 :
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!
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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