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6 And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
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And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?
7 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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Are these not the words the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were at rest and prosperous, and the Negev and the western foothills were settled?’ ”
8 And the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,
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And the word of the LORD came again to Zechariah:
9 "Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
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“This is what the LORD Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.
10 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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Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’
11 But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.
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“But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears.
12 They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of hosts.
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They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the LORD Almighty was very angry.
13 "As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear," says the LORD of hosts,
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“ ‘When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,’ says the LORD Almighty.
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