13 (A)Your name, O Lord, endures forever,
Your fame, O Lord, throughout all generations.
14 (B)For the Lord will judge His people,
And He will have compassion on His servants.

15 (C)The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
The work of men’s hands.
16 They have mouths, but they do not speak;
Eyes they have, but they do not see;
17 They have ears, but they do not hear;
Nor is there any breath in their mouths.
18 Those who make them are like them;
So is everyone who trusts in them.

19 (D)Bless the Lord, O house of Israel!
Bless the Lord, O house of Aaron!

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“Thus says the Lord of hosts:

(A)‘Execute true justice,
Show [a]mercy and compassion
Everyone to his brother.
10 (B)Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless,
The alien or the poor.
(C)Let none of you plan evil in his heart
Against his brother.’

11 “But they refused to heed, (D)shrugged[b] their shoulders, and (E)stopped[c] their ears so that they could not hear. 12 Yes, they made their (F)hearts like flint, (G)refusing to hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. (H)Thus great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:9 Or lovingkindness
  2. Zechariah 7:11 Lit. gave a stubborn or rebellious shoulder
  3. Zechariah 7:11 Lit. made their ears heavy

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