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
The Lord sent a message to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev. This was during the fourth year of king Darius' reign.
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
Bethel-sharezer sent Regem-melech and his men to ask for the Lord's blessing.
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
They were to ask the priests of the Temple of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I go on mourning and fasting in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”
4 and to be word LORD Hosts to(wards) me to/for to say
The Lord Almighty sent a message 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
Tell everyone in the land and the priests, when you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and the seventh month during these seventy years, was it really me you were fasting for?
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 eat and drink, don't you eat 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
Isn't this what the Lord told you to do through the former prophets, when Jerusalem was prosperous and inhabited, and when people were living in the Negev and the Shephelah?
8 and to be word LORD to(wards) Zechariah to/for to say
The Lord Almighty sent another message to me.
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 says. Judge fairly and truthfully. Show mercy and kindness 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
Don't exploit those who are widowed or fatherless, foreigners or the poor. Don't think up ways of mistreating one other.
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. They were obstinate, turning their backs and closing their ears.
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 minds unreceptive, as hard as stone. They refused to listen to the law or to what the Lord Almighty told them by his Spirit through the former prophets. That's why the Lord Almighty became very angry with them.
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
So since they didn't listen when I called out to them, I wouldn't listen when they called out to me, says the Lord Almighty.
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
With the winds of a storm I scattered them among the nations where they lived as foreigners. The land they left became so desolate that no one even traveled through it. They turned the Promised Land into a desert.
