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Zechariah 7

Hearts like Flint

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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  aChislev.

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Now the town of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and  1their men to  2 aseek the favor of the LORD,

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speaking to the  apriests who belong to the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, "Shall I weep in the  bfifth month  1and abstain, as I have done these many years?"

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Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

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"Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, `When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months  1these  aseventy years, was it actually for  bMe that you fasted?

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`When you eat and drink,  1do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?

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`Are not these the words which the LORD  aproclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and  1 bprosperous along with its cities around it, and the  2 cNegev and the  3foothills were inhabited?' "

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Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah saying,

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"Thus has the LORD of hosts said, ` aDispense true justice and practice  bkindness and compassion each to his brother;

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and  ado not oppress the widow or the  1orphan, the  2stranger or the poor; and do  bnot devise evil in your hearts against one another.'

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"But they  arefused to pay attention and  1 bturned a stubborn shoulder and  2 cstopped their ears from hearing.

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"They made their  ahearts like  1 bflint  2so that they could not hear the law and the  cwords which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the  dformer prophets; therefore great  ewrath came from the LORD of hosts.

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"And just as  aHe called and they would not listen, so  bthey called and I would not listen," says the LORD of hosts;

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"but I  1 ascattered them with a  bstorm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is  cdesolated behind them  2so that  dno one went back and forth, for they  emade the pleasant land desolate."



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