< Zechariah 7 >
1 and to be in/on/with year four to/for Darius [the] king to be word LORD to(wards) Zechariah in/on/with four to/for month [the] ninth in/on/with Chislev
In 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 Chislev.
2 and to send: depart Bethel Bethel Sharezer Sharezer and Regem-melech Regem-melech and human his to/for to beg [obj] face of LORD
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along with their men, to plead before the LORD
3 to/for to say to(wards) [the] priest which to/for house: temple LORD Hosts and to(wards) [the] prophet to/for to say to weep in/on/with month [the] fifth to dedicate like/as as which to make: do this like/as what? year
by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”
4 and to be word LORD Hosts to(wards) me to/for to say
Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,
5 to say to(wards) all people [the] land: country/planet and to(wards) [the] priest to/for to say for to fast and to mourn in/on/with fifth and in/on/with seventh and this seventy year to fast to fast me I
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
6 and for to eat and for to drink not you(m. p.) [the] to eat and you(m. p.) [the] to drink
And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
7 not [obj] [the] word which to call: call out LORD in/on/with hand: by [the] prophet [the] first: previous in/on/with to be Jerusalem to dwell and at ease and city her around her and [the] Negeb and [the] Shephelah to dwell
Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”
8 and to be word LORD to(wards) Zechariah to/for to say
Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,
9 thus to say LORD Hosts to/for to say justice: judgement truth: true to judge and kindness and compassion to make: do man: anyone with brother: compatriot his
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
10 and widow and orphan sojourner and afflicted not to oppress and distress: evil man: anyone brother: compatriot his not to devise: devise in/on/with heart your
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
11 and to refuse to/for to listen and to give: put shoulder to rebel and ear their to honor: dull from to hear: hear
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
12 and heart their to set: make thorn from to hear: hear [obj] [the] instruction and [obj] [the] word which to send: depart LORD Hosts in/on/with spirit his in/on/with hand: by [the] prophet [the] first: previous and to be wrath great: large from with LORD Hosts
They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.
13 and to be like/as as which to call: call to and not to hear: hear so to call: call to and not to hear: hear to say LORD Hosts
And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
14 and to rage them upon all [the] nation which not to know them and [the] land: country/planet be desolate: destroyed after them from to pass and from to return: repent and to set: make land: country/planet desire to/for horror: destroyed
But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”