Zechariah 7 NIV ISV Parallel

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1In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev.

1During the fourth year of the reign of King Darius, a message from the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month Kislev.

2The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melek, together with their men, to entreat the LORD

2The people of Bethel were sending Sharezer, Regem-melech, and their men to pray in the LORD's presence

3by asking the priests of the house of the LORD Almighty and the prophets, "Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?"

3and to speak to the priests assigned to the Temple of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies along with the prophets, asking, "Am I to go about mourning, denying myself throughout the fifth month, as I have these many years?"

4Then the word of the LORD Almighty came to me:

4Then this message from the LORD of the Heavenly Armies came to me:

5"Ask all the people of the land and the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?

5"Talk to everyone in the land, as well as to the priests. Ask them, 'When you were fasting and mourning during the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, were you really fasting for me?

6And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?

6And when you eat and drink, you're eating and drinking for your own benefit, aren't you?

7Are these not the words the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were at rest and prosperous, and the Negev and the western foothills were settled?'"

7Isn't this what the LORD proclaimed through the former prophets, when a prosperous Jerusalem was inhabited, as were its surrounding cities, the Negev, and the Shephelah?'"

8And the word of the LORD came again to Zechariah:

8This message from the LORD came to Zechariah again:

9"This is what the LORD Almighty said: 'Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.

9"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: 'Administer true justice, and show gracious love and mercy toward each other.

10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.'

10You are not to wrong the widow, orphans, the foreigner, or the poor, and you are not to plan evil against each other.

11"But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears.

11But they refused to pay attention, turned their backs, and stopped listening.

12They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the LORD Almighty was very angry.

12They made their hearts hard like a diamond, to keep from obeying the Law and the messages that the LORD of the Heavenly Armies sent by his Spirit through the former prophets.

13"'When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,' says the LORD Almighty.

13Therefore, just as when I cried out and they would not listen, so also they will cry out, and I will not listen,' says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

14I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land they left behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it. This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.'"

14I will scatter them to all of the nations, which they have not known.'" Now the earth was left desolate after them. As a result, no one came or went because they had turned a pleasant land into a desert.

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