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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When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves?
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Should you not have obeyed the words which the Lord proclaimed through the former prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and the South and the Lowland were inhabited?' "
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Then the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,
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"Thus says the Lord of hosts: 'Execute true justice, Show mercy and compassion Everyone to his brother.
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Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, The alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart Against his brother.'