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 ate and drank, didn't you do it to benefit yourselves?
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Aren't these the same words that the LORD announced through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding cities were inhabited and undisturbed and the Negev and the foothills were still inhabited?'"
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Then the LORD spoke his word to Zechariah. He said,
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"This is what the LORD of Armies says: Administer real justice, and be compassionate and kind to each other.
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Don't oppress widows, orphans, foreigners, and poor people. And don't even think of doing evil to each other.