{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/zac007.htm","path":"bib/kjv/zac007.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/zac007.htm","text":"1\u00a0And 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;\n \n2\u00a0When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,\n \n3\u00a0And 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?\n \n4\u00a0Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,\n \n5\u00a0Speak 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?\n \n6\u00a0And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?\n \n7\u00a0Should 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?\n \n8\u00a0And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying,\n \n9\u00a0Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:\n \n10\u00a0And 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.\n \n11\u00a0But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.\n \n12\u00a0Yea, 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.\n \n13\u00a0Therefore 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 hosts:\n \n14\u00a0But 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.","title":"King James Version: Zechariah: Zechariah Chapter 7","type":"page"}