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 even now in your holy festivals, aren’t you eating and drinking just to please yourselves?
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Isn’t this the same message the LORD proclaimed through the prophets in years past when Jerusalem and the towns of Judah were bustling with people, and the Negev and the foothills of Judah were well populated?’”
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Then this message came to Zechariah from the LORD :
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“This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: Judge fairly, and show mercy and kindness to one another.
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Do not oppress widows, orphans, foreigners, and the poor. And do not scheme against each other.