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Zechariah 7 ISV
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Ask them, ‘When you were fasting and mourning during the fifth and seventh months<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:5 The Heb. lacks months">g</a></span> for the past seventy years, were you really fasting for me? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And when you eat and drink, you’re eating and drinking for your own benefit, aren’t you? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Isn’t this what the LORD proclaimed through the former prophets, when a prosperous Jerusalem was inhabited, as were its surrounding cities, the Negev,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:7 i.e. the southern regions of the Sinai peninsula; cf. Josh 10:40">h</a></span> and the Shephelah?’”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:7 i.e. the verdant central lowlands of Israel; cf. Josh 10:40">i</a></span> </p> <p class="heading">The Consequence of Turning from God</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>This message from the LORD came to Zechariah again: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: ‘Administer true justice, and show gracious love and mercy toward each other.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:9 Lit. toward his brother">j</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You are not to wrong the widow, orphans, the foreigner, or the poor, and you are not to plan evil against each other.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:10 Lit. toward his brother">k</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But they refused to pay attention, turned their backs, and stopped listening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They made their hearts hard like a diamond, to keep from obeying the Law and the messages that the LORD of the Heavenly Armies sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore, just as when I<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:13 Lit. he">l</a></span> cried out and they would not listen, so also they will cry out, and I will not listen,’ says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>‘I will scatter them to all of the nations, which they have not known.’”</p> <p class="reg">Now the earth was left desolate after them. As a result, no one came or went because they had turned a pleasant land into a desert.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 7:1 The Heb. lacks <i>the reign of</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 7:1 i.e. c. 7 December 518 BC<br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 7:2 The Heb. lacks <i>The people of</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 7:2 Lit. <i>was sending</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 7:3 The Heb. lacks <i>assigned</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 7:3 i.e. the anniversary month of the Jerusalem temple’s destruction<br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 7:5 The Heb. lacks <i>months</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 7:7 i.e. the southern regions of the Sinai peninsula; cf. Josh 10:40<br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 7:7 i.e. the verdant central lowlands of Israel; cf. 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