7:1 In
the
fourth
year
of
King
Darius,
the
word
of
the
LORD
came
to
Zechariah
on
the
fourth
day
of
the
ninth
month,
which
is
Chislev.
7:2 Now
the
people
of
Bethel
had
sent
Sharezer
and
Regem-melech
and
their
men
to
entreat
the
favor
of
the
LORD,
7:3 saying
to
the
priests
of
the
house
of
the
LORD
of
hosts
and
the
prophets,
"Should
I
weep
and
abstain
in
the
fifth
month,
as
I
have
done
for
so
many
years"
7:4 Then
the
word
of
the
LORD
of
hosts
came
to
me:
7:5 "Say
to
all
the
people
of
the
land
and
the
priests,
When
you
fasted
and
mourned
in
the
fifth
month
and
in
the
seventh,
for
these
seventy
years,
was
it
for
me
that
you
fasted
7:6 And
when
you
eat
and
when
you
drink,
do
you
not
eat
for
yourselves
and
drink
for
yourselves
7:7 Were
not
these
the
words
that
the
LORD
proclaimed
by
the
former
prophets,
when
Jerusalem
was
inhabited
and
prosperous,
with
her
cities
around
her,
and
the
South
and
the
lowland
were
inhabited"
7:8 And
the
word
of
the
LORD
came
to
Zechariah,
saying,
7:9 "Thus
says
the
LORD
of
hosts,
Render
true
judgments,
show
kindness
and
mercy
to
one
another,
7:10 do
not
oppress
the
widow,
the
fatherless,
the
sojourner,
or
the
poor,
and
let
none
of
you
devise
evil
against
another
in
your
heart."
7:11 But
they
refused
to
pay
attention
and
turned
a
stubborn
shoulder
and
stopped
their
ears
that
they
might
not
hear.
7:12 They
made
their
hearts
diamond-hard
lest
they
should
hear
the
law
and
the
words
that
the
LORD
of
hosts
had
sent
by
his
Spirit
through
the
former
prophets.
Therefore
great
anger
came
from
the
LORD
of
hosts.
7:13 "As
I
called,
and
they
would
not
hear,
so
they
called,
and
I
would
not
hear,"
says
the
LORD
of
hosts,
7:14 "and
I
scattered
them
with
a
whirlwind
among
all
the
nations
that
they
had
not
known.
Thus
the
land
they
left
was
desolate,
so
that
no
one
went
to
and
fro,
and
the
pleasant
land
was
made
desolate."