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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Zechariah 7 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/zechariah/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/zechariah/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Zechariah 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../zechariah/6.htm" title="Zechariah 6">◄</a> Zechariah 7 <a href="../zechariah/8.htm" title="Zechariah 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> Condemns Insincere Fasting</h3><p class="par"><span class="v38_7_1"><span class="reftext" id="Zech.7.1" class="v38_7_1">1</span>In the fourth year that Darius was emperor, on the fourth day of the ninth month (the month of Kislev), the <span class="nd">Lord</span> gave me a message.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v38_7_2"><span class="reftext" id="Zech.7.2" class="v38_7_2">2</span>The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to the Temple of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty to pray for the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s blessing </span><span class="v38_7_3"><span class="reftext" id="Zech.7.3" class="v38_7_3">3</span>and to ask the priests and the prophets this question: “Should we continue to mourn because of the destruction of the Temple, by fasting in the fifth month as we have done for so many years now?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v38_7_4"><span class="reftext" id="Zech.7.4" class="v38_7_4">4</span>This is the message of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> that came to me. </span><span class="v38_7_5"><span class="reftext" id="Zech.7.5" class="v38_7_5">5</span>He said, “Tell the people of the land and the priests that when they fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months during these seventy years, it was not in honor of me. </span><span class="v38_7_6"><span class="reftext" id="Zech.7.6" class="v38_7_6">6</span>And when they ate and drank, it was for their own satisfaction.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v38_7_7"><span class="reftext" id="Zech.7.7" class="v38_7_7">7</span>This is what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said through the earlier prophets at the time when Jerusalem was prosperous and filled with people and when there were many people living not only in the towns around the city but also in the southern region and in the western foothills.</span></p><h3 class="s">Disobedience, the Cause of Exile</h3><p class="par"><span class="v38_7_8"><span class="reftext" id="Zech.7.8" class="v38_7_8">8</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> gave this message to Zechariah: </span><span class="v38_7_9"><span class="reftext" id="Zech.7.9" class="v38_7_9">9</span>“Long ago I gave these commands to my people: ‘You must see that justice is done, and must show kindness and mercy to one another. </span><span class="v38_7_10"><span class="reftext" id="Zech.7.10" class="v38_7_10">10</span>Do not oppress widows, orphans, foreigners who live among you, or anyone else in need. And do not plan ways of harming one another.’</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v38_7_11"><span class="reftext" id="Zech.7.11" class="v38_7_11">11</span>“But my people stubbornly refused to listen. They closed their minds </span><span class="v38_7_12"><span class="reftext" id="Zech.7.12" class="v38_7_12">12</span>and made their hearts as hard as rock. Because they would not listen to the teaching which I sent through the prophets who lived long ago, I became very angry. </span><span class="v38_7_13"><span class="reftext" id="Zech.7.13" class="v38_7_13">13</span>Because they did not listen when I spoke, I did not answer when they prayed. </span><span class="v38_7_14"><span class="reftext" id="Zech.7.14" class="v38_7_14">14</span>Like a storm I swept them away to live in foreign countries. This good land was left a desolate place, with no one living in it.”</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p class="yiv9003199930MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Bible text from the Good News Translation (GNT) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.gnt.bible">www.gnt.bible</a> . 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