Zechariah 7

1 And it came about in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month Chislev.

And it was in year four of Darius the king it came [the] word of Yahweh to Zechariah on [day] four of the month ninth in Kislev.

2 Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to make a request for grace from the Lord,

And it had sent Beth-el Shar-ezer and Regem-Melech and men his to entreat [the] face of Yahweh.

3 And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?

To say to the priests who [belonged] to [the] house of Yahweh of hosts and to the prophets saying ¿ will I weep in the month fifth will I consecrate myself? just as I have done this how many? years.

4 Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying

And it came [the] word of Yahweh of hosts to me saying.

5 Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?

Say to all [the] people of the land and to the priests saying that you fasted and you mourned in the fifth [month] and in the seventh [month] and this seventy year[s] ¿ really did you fast for me me.

6 And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?

And if you eat and if you drink ¿ not [are] you the [ones who] eat and [are] you? the [ones who] drink.

7 Are not these the words which the Lord said to you by the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was full of people and wealth, and the towns round about her and the South and the Lowland were peopled?

¿ Not [are] the words which he proclaimed Yahweh by [the] hand of the prophets former when was Jerusalem remaining and at ease and cities its around it and the Negev and the Shephelah [was] remaining.

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

And it came [the] word of Yahweh to Zechariah saying.

9 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:

Thus he says Yahweh of hosts saying justice of faithfulness judge and loyalty and compassion do each with brother his.

10 Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.

And [the] widow and [the] fatherless [the] sojourner and [the] poor may not you oppress and [the] harm of each brother his may not you plan in heart your.

11 But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;

And they refused to pay attention and they gave a shoulder stubborn and ears their they made heavy from hearing.

12 And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.

And heart their they made flint from hearing the law and the words which he had sent Yahweh of hosts by spirit his by [the] hand of the prophets former and it was wrath great from with Yahweh of hosts.

13 And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:

And it was just as he called and not they listened so they called and not I listened he says Yahweh of hosts.

14 But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.

And I will storm away them to all the nations which not they have known them and the land it was desolate behind them from [one who] passes by and from [one who] returns and they made a land of desire into a waste.