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<span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And when you eat and when you drink, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>are you not eating for yourselves and are you not drinking for yourselves? <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Are not <i>these</i> the words which Yahweh called out by the hand of the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and at ease along with its cities around it, and the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Negev and the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Shephelah were inhabited?’” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Thus has Yahweh of hosts said, ‘Judge with true justice and show lovingkindness and compassion each to his brother; <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and do not oppress the widow or the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>orphan, the sojourner or the afflicted; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But they refused to give heed and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>turned a stubborn shoulder and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>dulled their ears from hearing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And they made their hearts <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>diamond-hard <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>so that they could not hear the law and the words which Yahweh of hosts had sent by His Spirit by the hand of the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of hosts. <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And it happened that just as He called and they would not listen, so they called and I would not listen,” says Yahweh of hosts; <span class="reftext"><a href="/zechariah/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“but I <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is desolated behind them <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>so that no one was passing through and returning, for they made the pleasant land desolate.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">2</span> Lit <i>his</i><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> Lit <i>soften the face of</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>dedicating myself</i>; lit <i>abstaining</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Lit <i>and these</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>is it not you who eat and you who drink</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> South country<br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Or <i>lowland</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Or <i>fatherless</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit <i>gave</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit <i>heavy</i>, <i>hardened</i>; cf. Ex 8:15; 1 Sam 6:6<br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Lit <i>corundum</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Lit <i>from hearing</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Lit <i>stormed them away upon all</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Lit <i>from passing and from returning</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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