NET Bible
"“The LORD of Heaven’s Armies said,‘Exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other."
— Zechariah 7:9, NET Bible
“Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:”
And now when you eat and drink, are you not doing so for yourselves?’”
Should you not have obeyed the words that the LORD cried out through the former prophets when Jerusalem was peacefully inhabited and her surrounding cities, the Negev, and the foothills were also populated?
Again the LORD’s message came to Zechariah:
“The LORD of Heaven’s Armies said,‘Exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other.
You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the resident foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow citizen.’
“But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.
Indeed, they made their hearts as hard as diamond, so that they could not obey the Torah and the other words the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had poured out great wrath.