Book 25 : NEVIIM - TREISAR - ZECHARIAH - Chapter 007
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And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that
the word of HaShem came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month,
even in Chislev
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When Bethel-sarezer, and Regem-melech and his men, had sent
to entreat the favour of HaShem
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and to speak unto the priests of the house of HaShem of
hosts, and to the prophets, saying: 'Should I weep in the fifth month,
separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
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Then came the word of HaShem of hosts unto me, saying
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'Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests,
saying: When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even
these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto Me, even to Me
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And when ye eat, and when ye did drink, are ye not they
that eat, and they that drink
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Should ye not hearken to the words which HaShem hath
proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in
prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, and the South and the
Lowland were inhabited?
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And the word of HaShem came unto Zechariah, saying
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'Thus hath HaShem of hosts spoken, saying: Execute true
judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother
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and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the
stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in
your heart
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But they refused to attend, and turned a stubborn
shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear
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Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they
should hear the law, and the words which HaShem of hosts had sent by His spirit
by the hand of the former prophets; therefore came there great wrath from HaShem
of hosts
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And it came to pass that, as He called, and they would not
hear; so they shall call, and I will not hear, said HaShem of hosts
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but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the
nations whom 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.
Book 25 : NEVIIM - TREISAR - ZECHARIAH - Chapter 007
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