Zechariah 7:8-14

« Zech 6Zech 7Zech 8 »

8 Then the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah saying, 9 “Thus has Yahweh of hosts said, ‘^aJudge with true justice and show ^blovingkindness and compassion each to his brother; 10 and ^ado not oppress the widow or the ¹orphan, the sojourner or the afflicted; and do ^bnot devise evil in your hearts against one another.’ 11 But they ^arefused to give heed and ¹^bturned a stubborn shoulder and ²^cdulled their ears from hearing. 12 And they made their ^ahearts ¹^bdiamond-hard ²so that they could not hear the law and the ^cwords which Yahweh of hosts had sent by His Spirit by the hand of the ^dformer prophets; therefore great ^ewrath came from Yahweh of hosts. 13 And it happened that just as ^aHe called and they would not listen, so ^bthey called and I would not listen,” says Yahweh of hosts; 14 “but I ¹^ascattered them with a ^bstorm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is ^cdesolated behind them ²so that ^dno one was passing through and returning, for they ^emade the pleasant land desolate.”