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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And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
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Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, 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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“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
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Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
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