Bible in Basic English
"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:"
— Zechariah 7:13, Bible in Basic English
“It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said Yahweh of Armies;”
““‘It then came about that just as I cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,’ the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had said.”
“And it came to pass that as he spoke, and they heard not: so shall they cry, and I will not hear, saith the Lord of hosts.”
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.
But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;
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 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:
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.