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Zechariah 7

Common English Bible CEB

1 In the fourth year of Darius the king, the LORD's word came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, Kislev.

2 The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech, along with his men, to seek the LORD's favor,

3 saying to the priests who were in the house of the LORD of heavenly forces and to the prophets: "Should I weep in the fifth month and abstain as I have done for a number of years?"

4 Then the word of the LORD of heavenly forces came to me:

5 Say to all the land's people and to the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth month and the seventh month for these past seventy years, did you fast for me?

6 When you ate and drank, weren't you the ones eating and drinking?

7 Weren't these the words that the LORD proclaimed through the former prophets when Jerusalem was dwelling quietly along with the surrounding cities, and when the arid southern plain and the western foothills were inhabited?

8 The LORD's word came to Zechariah:

9 The LORD of heavenly forces proclaims: Make just and faithful decisions; show kindness and compassion to each other!

10 Don't oppress the widow, the orphan, the stranger, and the poor; don't plan evil against each other!

11 But they refused to pay attention. They turned a cold shoulder and stopped listening.

12 They steeled their hearts against hearing the Instruction and the words that the LORD of heavenly forces sent by his spirit through the earlier prophets. As a result, the LORD of heavenly forces became enraged.

13 So just as he called and they didn't listen, when they called, I didn't listen, says the LORD of heavenly forces.

14 I scattered them throughout the nations whom they didn't know. The land was devastated behind them, with no one leaving or returning. They turned a delightful land into a wasteland.

New Revised Standard NRS

1 In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.

2 Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men, to entreat the favor of the Lord,

3 and to ask the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, "Should I mourn and practice abstinence in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?"

4 Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me:

5 Say to all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?

6 And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink only for yourselves?

7 Were not these the words that the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, along with the towns around it, and when the Negeb and the Shephelah were inhabited?

8 The word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying:

9 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another;

10 do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.

11 But they refused to listen, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears in order not to hear.

12 They made their hearts adamant in order not to hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent by his spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.

13 Just as, when I called, they would not hear, so, when they called, I would not hear, says the Lord of hosts,

14 and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and a pleasant land was made desolate.