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ZEC 7:1
Zechariah 7:1
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And it came to pass in the fourth year of king
Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the
ninth month, even in Chisleu; |
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ZEC 7:2
Zechariah 7:2
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When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer
and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD, |
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ZEC 7:3
Zechariah 7:3
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And to speak unto the priests which were in
the house of the LORD 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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ZEC 7:4
Zechariah 7:4
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Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto
me, saying, |
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ZEC 7:5
Zechariah 7:5
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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 seventh month,
even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me? |
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ZEC 7:6
Zechariah 7:6
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And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink,
did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? |
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ZEC 7:7
Zechariah 7:7
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Should ye not hear the words which the LORD
hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity,
and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain? |
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ZEC 7:8
Zechariah 7:8
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And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah,
saying, |
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ZEC 7:9
Zechariah 7:9
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Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute
true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: |
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ZEC 7:10
Zechariah 7:10
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And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless,
the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother
in your heart. |
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ZEC 7:11
Zechariah 7:11
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But they refused to hearken, and pulled away
the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. |
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ZEC 7:12
Zechariah 7:12
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Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone,
lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent
in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD
of hosts. |
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ZEC 7:13
Zechariah 7:13
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Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried,
and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of
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ZEC 7:14
Zechariah 7:14
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But I scattered them with a whirlwind among
all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that
no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate. |
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