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

It happened in the fourth year of king Daryavesh that the word of the LORD came to Zechariah in 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

The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat the LORD's favor,

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

and to speak to the priests of the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so 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

"Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?

6 and for to eat and for to drink not you(m. p.) [the] to eat and you(m. p.) [the] to drink

When you eat, and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves, and drink 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

Aren't these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the Negev and the lowland were inhabited?'"

8 and to be word LORD to(wards) Zechariah to/for to say

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

"Thus has the LORD of hosts spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

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, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

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 listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

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

Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath 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

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said 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 will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."