The Koine Bible

And it came to pass in the fourth year of Darius the king, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.

And Sarasar and Arbeseer, the king and his men, sent to Beth-el to appease the Lord.

saying to the priests who were in the house of the Lord Almighty and to the prophets, saying, Has the consecration entered here in the fifth month, as I have already done for many years?

And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying

Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, When you fast or mourn in the fifths or in the sevenths, even these seventy years, have you indeed fasted a fast for me?

And if you eat or drink, are not you the ones who are eating and you are drinking?

Are not these the words that the Lord spoke by the hand of the prophets, those before, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, and her cities round about, and the hill country and the lowland were inhabited?

And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying

Thus says the Lord Almighty: judge righteous judgment, and do mercy and compassion, each one toward his brother.

and do not oppress widow and orphan and sojourner and poor, and let each one not bear malice against his brother in your hearts

But they refused to pay attention and gave a stubborn back, and they made their ears heavy so as not to hear

And they set their heart disobedient, so as not to hear my law and the words which the Lord Almighty sent by his Spirit through the hands of the prophets before, and there came to be great wrath from the Lord Almighty

And it shall be that just as he spoke and they did not hear him, so they shall cry out, and I will by no means hear them, says the Lord Almighty.

And I will cast them out into all the nations which they did not know, and the land shall be made desolate behind them, so that no one passes through and no one returns; and they made the chosen land into desolation