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| Zechariah 7:1 | And it came about in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month Chislev. | | It happened in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth [day] of the ninth month, even in Chislev. |
| Zechariah 7:2 | Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to make a request for grace from the Lord, | | Now [they of] Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to entreat the favor of Yahweh, |
| Zechariah 7:3 | And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years? | | [and] to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years? |
| Zechariah 7:4 | Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying | | Then came the word of Yahweh of Hosts to me, saying, |
| Zechariah 7:5 | Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me? | | Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh [month], even these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, even to me? |
| Zechariah 7:6 | And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves? | | When you eat, and when you drink, do not you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? |
| Zechariah 7:7 | Are not these the words which the Lord said to you by the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was full of people and wealth, and the towns round about her and the South and the Lowland were peopled? | | [Should you] not [hear] the words which Yahweh cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities of it round about her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited? |
| Zechariah 7:8 | And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying, | | The word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, saying, |
| Zechariah 7:9 | This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother: | | Thus has Yahweh of Hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother; |
| Zechariah 7:10 | Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother. | | and don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart. |
| Zechariah 7:11 | But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing; | | But they refused to listen, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. |
| Zechariah 7:12 | And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies. | | Yes, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets: therefore there came great wrath from Yahweh of Hosts. |
| Zechariah 7:13 | And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies: | | It is come to pass that, as he cried, and they would not hear, so they shall cry, and I will not hear, said Yahweh of Hosts; |
| Zechariah 7:14 | But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land. | | but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate. |
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