Zechariah 7:5-9

5 “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?
6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?
7 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 again to Zechariah:
9 “This is what the LORD Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.

Cross References 10

  • 1. Isaiah 58:5
  • 2. 2 Kings 25:25
  • 3. S Daniel 9:2
  • 4. S Isaiah 43:23
  • 5. Isaiah 1:11-20; Zechariah 1:4
  • 6. Jeremiah 22:21
  • 7. S Jeremiah 17:26
  • 8. Jeremiah 44:4-5
  • 9. S Jeremiah 22:3; Jeremiah 42:5; Zechariah 8:16
  • 10. S Deuteronomy 22:1
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