Zechariah 第7章
A Call for Justice and Mercy
17:1 [ch. 1:1, 7] 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 7:1 Neh. 1:1Chislev.
2Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men 7:2 ch. 8:21, 22; 1 Sam. 13:12; Mal. 1:9to entreat the favor of the Lord,
4Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me:
5“Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in 7:5 [See ver. 3above] the fifth month and in 7:5 [2 Kgs. 25:25] the seventh, for these 7:5 See ch. 1:12seventy years, 7:5 [Isa. 58:4, 5]was it 7:5 [Isa. 58:4, 5]for me that you fasted?
67:6 [1 Cor. 11:20, 21]And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
77:7 [ch. 1:5, 6] Were not these the words that the Lord proclaimed 7:7 ver. 12by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, 7:7 Jer. 17:26with her cities around her, and the 7:7 Jer. 17:26South and the 7:7 Jer. 17:26lowland were inhabited?’”
8And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,
9“Thus says the Lord of hosts, 7:9 Isa. 1:17; Jer. 21:12; Mic. 6:8; [Matt. 23:23]Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
107:10 Isa. 1:23; Jer. 5:28; See Ex. 22:21, 22do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, 7:10 Prov. 22:22or the poor, and 7:10 ch. 8:17let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”
11But 7:11 ch. 1:4they refused to pay attention 7:11 Neh. 9:29and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.7:11 Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear
127:12 [Ezek. 11:19; 36:26] They made their hearts diamond-hard 7:12 [Neh. 9:30] lest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent 7:12 [Neh. 9:30] by his Spirit through 7:12 ver. 7the former prophets. 7:12 [2 Chr. 36:16; 1 Thess. 2:16]Therefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts.
137:13 [Isa. 1:15; Jer. 11:11]; See Prov. 1:24-28“As I7:13 Hebrew he called, and they would not hear, 7:13 [Isa. 1:15; Jer. 11:11]; See Prov. 1:24-28so they called, and I would not hear,” says the Lord of hosts,
147:14 [ch. 2:6] “and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all 7:14 See Deut. 28:33the nations that they had not known. 7:14 Ezek. 12:19Thus the land they left was desolate, 7:14 ch. 9:8; [Zeph. 3:6] so that no one went to and fro, 7:14 [Jer. 7:34]and the pleasant land was made desolate.”
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