Zechariah Chapter 7

• Zechariah 7:1
  Zechariah.
• Zechariah 7:2
  In the fourth year of King Darius, the LORD’s word came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
• Zechariah 7:3
  The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech and their men to entreat the LORD’s favor,
• Zechariah 7:4
  and to speak to the priests of the house of the LORD of Armies and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I...
• Zechariah 7:5
  Then the word of the LORD of Armies came to me, saying,
• Zechariah 7:6
  “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 ...
• Zechariah 7:7
  When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
• Zechariah 7:8
  Aren’t these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and...
• Zechariah 7:9
  The LORD’s word came to Zechariah, saying,
• Zechariah 7:10
  “Thus has the LORD of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
• Zechariah 7:11
  Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
• Zechariah 7:12
  But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
• Zechariah 7:13
  Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law and the words which the LORD of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former...
• Zechariah 7:14
  It has come to pass that, as he called and they refused to listen, so they will call and I will not listen,” said the LORD of Armies;
• Zechariah 7:15
  “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 passe...