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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[a] 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:7 sn The foothills (שְׁפֵלָה, shephelah) are the region between the Judean hill country and the Mediterranean coastal plain.

(A)Were not these the words that the Lord proclaimed (B)by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, (C)with her cities around her, and the (D)South and the (E)lowland were inhabited?’”

And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, (F)Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,

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