And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying. ] Giving him orders to repeat what the former prophets had said, and to urge the same things on the people which they had before rejected, the rejection of which had issued in their ruin.
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And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
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Were not these the words that the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, with her cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?"
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And the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,
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"Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
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do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart."
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