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 eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
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When Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, with her cities round about her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited, were not these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets?"
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And the word of the LORD came to Zechari'ah, saying,
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"Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy each to his brother,
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do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart."
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