Verse 8

Zechariah 7:8

Free Bible Version

8 Don't exploit those who are widowed or fatherless, foreigners or the poor. Don't think up ways of mistreating one other.

Original Language Text

hebrew

וַֽ/יְהִי֙ דְּבַר יְהוָ֔ה אֶל זְכַרְיָ֖ה לֵ/אמֹֽר

English Translation

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

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Chapter 7 Context

1 The Lord sent a message to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev. Thi... Focus ↗

2 They were to ask the priests of the Temple of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I go on mo... Focus ↗

3 The Lord Almighty sent a message to me saying, Focus ↗

4 Tell everyone in the land and the priests, when you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and the se... Focus ↗

5 And when you eat and drink, don't you eat and drink for yourselves? Focus ↗

6 Isn't this what the Lord told you to do through the former prophets, when Jerusalem was prosperous a... Focus ↗

7 This is what the Lord says. Judge fairly and truthfully. Show mercy and kindness to one another. Focus ↗

8 Don't exploit those who are widowed or fatherless, foreigners or the poor. Don't think up ways of mi...

9 But they refused to listen. They were obstinate, turning their backs and closing their ears. Focus ↗

10 They made their minds unreceptive, as hard as stone. They refused to listen to the law or to what th... Focus ↗

11 So since they didn't listen when I called out to them, I wouldn't listen when they called out to me,... Focus ↗

12 With the winds of a storm I scattered them among the nations where they lived as foreigners. The lan... Focus ↗

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