The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Zechariah 7:3 (ESV)

3 saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month,
as I have done for so many years?”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 7:4 (ESV)

4 Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me:

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 7:5 (ESV)

5 “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh,
for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 7:6 (ESV)

6 And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 7:7 (ESV)

7 Were not these the words that the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous,
with her cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 7:8 (ESV)

8 And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 7:9 (ESV)

9 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 7:10 (ESV)

10 do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 7:11 (ESV)

11 But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 7:12 (ESV)

12 They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent by
his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 7:13 (ESV)

13 “As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear,” says the Lord of hosts,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 7:14 (ESV)

14 “and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate,
so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 8:1 (NIV)

The word of the Lord Almighty came to me.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 8:2 (NIV)

2 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I am very jealous for Zion; I am burning with jealousy for her.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 8:3 (NIV)

3 This is what the Lord says: ‘I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City,
and the mountain of the Lord Almighty will be called the Holy Mountain.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 8:4 (NIV)

4 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Once again men and women of ripe old age will sit in the streets of Jerusalem,
each of them with cane in hand because of their age.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 8:5 (NIV)

5 The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 8:6 (NIV)

6 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘It may seem marvellous to the remnant of this people at that time, but will it seem marvellous
to me?’ declares the Lord Almighty.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 8:7 (NIV)

7 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will save my people from the countries of the east and the west.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Zechariah 8:8 (NIV)

8 I will bring them back to live in Jerusalem; they will be my people, and I will be faithful and righteous to them as their God.’