Joy and gladness in the coming age
1THE word of the LORD came to Zechariah in the fourth year of King Darius, on the fourth day of Kislev, the ninth month.
2Bethel-sharezer sent Regem-melech together with his men to entreat the favour of the LORD.
3They were to say to the priests in the house of the LORD of Hosts and to the prophets, “Am I to lament and fast in the fifth month as I have done these many years?”
4Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me:
5Say to all the people of the land and to the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months these past seventy years, was it indeed with me in mind that you fasted?
6And when you ate and drank, was it not to please yourselves?
7Was it not this that the LORD proclaimed through the prophets of old, while Jerusalem was populous and peaceful, as were the towns round about, and there were people settled in the Negeb and the Shephelah?
8The word of the LORD came to Zechariah:
9These are the words of the LORD of Hosts: Administer true justice, show kindness and compassion to each other,
10do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the resident alien or the poor, and do not plot evil against one another.
11But they refused to listen; they turned their backs defiantly on me, they stopped their ears so as not to hear.
12They were adamant in their refusal to accept the law and the teaching which the LORD of Hosts had sent by his spirit through the prophets of old; and in great anger the LORD of Hosts said:
13As they did not listen when I called, so I would not listen when they called.
14I drove them out among all the nations where they were strangers, leaving their land deserted behind them, so that no one came and went. Thus their pleasant land was turned into a desert.
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