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 drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?
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'Are not these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous along with its cities around it, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?' "
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Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah saying,
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"Thus has the LORD of hosts said, 'Dispense true justice and practice kindness and compassion each to his brother;
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and do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the stranger or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.'