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Zechariah 7 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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The People’s Hard Hearts

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Now it happened that in the fourth year of King Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:2 - And the town of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and [fn]their men to [fn]entreat the favor of Yahweh,

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:3 - speaking to the priests, who belong to the house of Yahweh of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the fifth month [fn]and abstain, as I have done these many years?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:4 - Then the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:5 - “Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months [fn]these seventy years, was it actually for Me that you fasted?

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:6 - ‘And when you eat and when you drink, [fn]are you not eating for yourselves and are you not drinking for yourselves?

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:7 - ‘Are not these the words which Yahweh called out by the hand of the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and at ease along with its cities around it, and the [fn]Negev and the [fn]Shephelah were inhabited?’”

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Then the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:9 - “Thus has Yahweh of hosts said, ‘Judge with true justice and show lovingkindness and compassion each to his brother;

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:10 - and do not oppress the widow or the [fn]orphan, the sojourner or the afflicted; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:11 - “But they refused to give heed and [fn]turned a stubborn shoulder and [fn]dulled their ears from hearing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:12 - “And they made their hearts [fn]diamond-hard [fn]so that they could not hear the law and the words which Yahweh of hosts had sent by His Spirit by the hand of the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:13 - “And it happened that just as He called and they would not listen, so they called and I would not listen,” says Yahweh of hosts;

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:14 - “but I [fn]scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is desolated behind them [fn]so that no one was passing through and returning, for they made the pleasant land desolate.”
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Lit his
Lit soften the face of
Or dedicating myself; lit abstaining
Lit and these
Lit is it not you who eat and you who drink
South country
Or lowland
Or fatherless
Lit gave
Lit heavy, hardened; cf. Ex 8:15; 1 Sam 6:6
Lit corundum
Lit from hearing
Lit stormed them away upon all
Lit from passing and from returning
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Zechariah Chapter 7 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras