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Version</td><td class="version" width="50%">New American Standard Bible 1995</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext1">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.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the LORD,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now the town of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to seek the favor of the LORD,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">saying to the priests of the house of the LORD of hosts and the prophets, “Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">speaking to the priests who belong to the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, "Shall I weep in the fifth month and abstain, as I have done these many years?"</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me:<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">"Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months these seventy years, was it actually for Me that you fasted?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">'When you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Were not these the words that the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, with her cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Are not these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous along with its cities around it, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?'"</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah saying,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">"Thus has the LORD of hosts said, 'Dispense true justice and practice kindness and compassion each to his brother;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the stranger or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.'</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">"But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears from hearing.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of hosts.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">"They made their hearts like flint so that they could not hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear,” says the LORD of hosts,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">"And just as He called and they would not listen, so they called and I would not listen," says the LORD of hosts;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. 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