Dual Panel1And it came to pass in the fourth <0702> year <08141> of king <04428> Darius <01867>_, [that] the word <01697> of the LORD <03068> came unto Zechariah <02148> in the fourth <0702> [day] of the ninth <08671> month <02320>_, [even] in Chisleu <03691>_;
2When they had sent <07971> (8799) unto the house <01004> of God <0410> Sherezer <08272> and Regemmelech <07278>_, and their men <0582>_, to pray <02470> (8763) before <06440> the LORD <03068>_, {pray...: Heb. intreat the face of}
3[And] to speak <0559> (8800) unto the priests <03548> which [were] in the house <01004> of the LORD <03068> of hosts <06635>_, and to the prophets <05030>_, saying <0559> (8800)_, Should I weep <01058> (8799) in the fifth <02549> month <02320>_, separating <05144> (8736) myself, as I have done <06213> (8804) these so many years <08141>_?
4Then came the word <01697> of the LORD <03068> of hosts <06635> unto me, saying <0559> (8800)_,
5Speak <0559> (8798) unto all the people <05971> of the land <0776>_, and to the priests <03548>_, saying <0559> (8800)_, When ye fasted <06684> (8804) and mourned <05594> (8800) in the fifth <02549> and seventh <07637> [month], even those seventy <07657> years <08141>_, did ye at all <06684> (8800) fast <06684> (8804) unto me, [even] to me?
6And when ye did eat <0398> (8799)_, and when ye did drink <08354> (8799)_, did not ye eat <0398> (8802) [for yourselves], and drink <08354> (8802) [for yourselves]? {did not ye: or, be not ye they that}
7[Should ye] not [hear] the words <01697> which the LORD <03068> hath cried <07121> (8804) by <03027> the former <07223> prophets <05030>_, when Jerusalem <03389> was inhabited <03427> (8802) and in prosperity <07961>_, and the cities <05892> thereof round about her <05439>_, when [men] inhabited <03427> (8802) the south <05045> and the plain <08219>_? {Should...: or, Are not these the words} {by: Heb. by the hand of}
8And the word <01697> of the LORD <03068> came unto Zechariah <02148>_, saying <0559> (8800)_,
9Thus speaketh <0559> (8804) the LORD <03068> of hosts <06635>_, saying <0559> (8800)_, Execute <08199> (8798) true <0571> judgment <04941>_, and shew <06213> (8798) mercy <02617> and compassions <07356> every man <0376> to his brother <0251>_: {Execute...: Heb. Judge judgment of truth}
10And oppress <06231> (8799) not the widow <0490>_, nor the fatherless <03490>_, the stranger <01616>_, nor the poor <06041>_; and let none of you imagine <02803> (8799) evil <07451> against <0376> his brother <0251> in your heart <03824>_.
11But they refused <03985> (8762) to hearken <07181> (8687)_, and pulled away <05414> (8799) <05637> (8802) the shoulder <03802>_, and stopped <03513> (8689) their ears <0241>_, that they should not hear <08085> (8800)_. {pulled...: Heb. they gave a backsliding shoulder} {stopped: Heb. made heavy}
12Yea, they made <07760> (8804) their hearts <03820> [as] an adamant stone <08068>_, lest they should hear <08085> (8800) the law <08451>_, and the words <01697> which the LORD <03068> of hosts <06635> hath sent <07971> (8804) in his spirit <07307> by <03027> the former <07223> prophets <05030>_: therefore came a great <01419> wrath <07110> from the LORD <03068> of hosts <06635>_. {by: Heb. by the hand of}
13Therefore it is come to pass, [that] as he cried <07121> (8804)_, and they would not hear <08085> (8804)_; so they cried <07121> (8799)_, and I would not hear <08085> (8799)_, saith <0559> (8804) the LORD <03068> of hosts <06635>_:
14But I scattered them with a whirlwind <05590> (8762) among all the nations <01471> whom they knew <03045> (8804) not. Thus the land <0776> was desolate <08074> (8738) after <0310> them, that no man passed through <05674> (8802) nor returned <07725> (8802)_: for they laid <07760> (8799) the pleasant <02532> land <0776> desolate <08047>_. {pleasant...: Heb. land of desire}