And the word of the LORD came again to Zechariah: (NIV)
And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying (AMP)
And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying, (KJV)
"This is what the LORD Almighty said: 'Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another." (NIV)
Thus has the Lord of hosts spoken: Execute true judgment and show mercy and kindness and tender compassion, every man to his brother; (AMP)
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: (KJV)
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.' (NIV)
And oppress not the widow or the fatherless, the temporary resident or the poor, and let none of you devise or imagine or think evil against his brother in your heart. (AMP)
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. (KJV)
"But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears." (NIV)
But they refused to listen and turned a rebellious and stubborn shoulder and made heavy and dull their ears that they might not hear. (AMP)
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. (KJV)
They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the LORD Almighty was very angry. (NIV)
Yes, they made their hearts as an adamant stone or diamond point, lest they should hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore there came great wrath from the Lord of hosts. (AMP)
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts. (KJV)
""I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land they left behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it. This is how they made the pleasant land desolate."" (NIV)
But I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they know not and who know not them. Thus the land was desolate after they had gone, so that no man passed through or returned, for they [the Jews by their sins] had [caused to be] laid waste and forsaken the pleasant land (the land of desire). (AMP)
But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate. (KJV)
"When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,' says the LORD Almighty." (NIV)
So it came to pass that as He cried and they would not hear [He said], So they shall cry and I will not answer, says the Lord of hosts (AMP)
Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts: (KJV)
In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev. (NIV)
AND IN the fourth year of the reign of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, Chislev. (AMP)
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu; (KJV)
"Ask all the people of the land and the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?" (NIV)
Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, even those seventy years you were in exile, was it for Me that you fasted, for Me? (AMP)
Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me? (KJV)
The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melek, together with their men, to entreat the LORD (NIV)
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to pray and entreat the favor of the Lord (AMP)
When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD, (KJV)
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