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<A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink only for yourselves? <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Are not these the words that the Lord has spoken by the hand of the former prophets, when Jerusalem was still inhabited, so that it would prosper, itself and the cities around it, and those inhabitants towards the South and in the plains?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying: <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Thus says the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge with true judgment, and act with mercy and compassion, each and every one with his brother. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And do not find fault with the widow, and the orphan, and the newcomer, and the poor. And let not a man consider evil in his heart towards his brother. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But they were not willing to pay attention, and they turned aside their shoulder to depart, and they pressed upon their ears, so that they would not hear. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And they set their heart like the hardest stone, so that they would not hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts has sent with his Spirit by the hand of the former prophets. And so a great indignation came from Lord of hosts. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And it happened, just as he had spoken, and they did not pay attention. So then, they shall cry out, and I will not heed, says the Lord of hosts. <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And I dispersed them throughout all the kingdoms that they did not know. And the land was left desolate behind them, so that no one was passing through or returning. 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