Zechariah 7:3-13

3 1saying to the priests of the house of the LORD of hosts and 2the prophets, "Should I weep and 3abstain in 4the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?"
4 Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me:
5 "Say to all the people of the land and the priests, When you fasted and mourned in 5the fifth month and in 6the seventh, for these 7seventy years, 8was it 9for me that you fasted?
6 10And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
7 11Were not these the words that the LORD proclaimed 12by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, 13with her cities around her, and the 14South and the 15lowland were inhabited?"
8 And the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,
9 "Thus says the LORD of hosts, 16Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
10 17do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, 18or the poor, and 19let none of you devise evil against another in your heart."
11 But 20they refused to pay attention 21and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.[a]
12 22They made their hearts diamond-hard 23lest they should hear the law and the words that the LORD of hosts had sent 24by his Spirit through 25the former prophets. 26Therefore great anger came from the LORD of hosts.
13 27"As I[b] called, and they would not hear, 28so they called, and I would not hear," says the LORD of hosts,

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Cross References 28

  • 1. Malachi 2:7
  • 2. Zechariah 8:9; [Ezra 5:1; Ezra 6:14]
  • 3. [Zechariah 12:12]
  • 4. Zechariah 8:19; [2 Kings 25:8]
  • 5. [See ver. 3 above]
  • 6. [2 Kings 25:25]
  • 7. See Zechariah 1:12
  • 8. [Isaiah 58:4, 5]
  • 9. [Isaiah 58:4, 5]
  • 10. [1 Corinthians 11:20, 21]
  • 11. [Zechariah 1:5, 6]
  • 12. ver. 12
  • 13. Jeremiah 17:26
  • 14. Jeremiah 17:26
  • 15. Jeremiah 17:26
  • 16. Isaiah 1:17; Jeremiah 21:12; Micah 6:8; [Matthew 23:23]
  • 17. Isaiah 1:23; Jeremiah 5:28; See Exodus 22:21, 22
  • 18. Proverbs 22:22
  • 19. Zechariah 8:17
  • 20. Zechariah 1:4
  • 21. Nehemiah 9:29
  • 22. [Ezekiel 11:19; Ezekiel 36:26]
  • 23. [Nehemiah 9:30]
  • 24. [Nehemiah 9:30]
  • 25. ver. 7
  • 26. [2 Chronicles 36:16; 1 Thessalonians 2:16]
  • 27. [Isaiah 1:15; Jeremiah 11:11]; See Proverbs 1:24-28
  • 28. [Isaiah 1:15; Jeremiah 11:11]; See Proverbs 1:24-28

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear
  • [b]. Hebrew he
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