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7 Should you not have obeyed the words which the Lord proclaimed through the aformer prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and bthe South and the Lowland were inhabited?’ ”  

Disobedience Resulted in Captivity

8 Then the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,
9 “Thus says the Lord of hosts:
a‘Execute true justice,
Show1 mercy and compassion
Everyone to his brother. 
10 aDo not oppress the widow or the fatherless,
The alien or the poor.
bLet none of you plan evil in his heart
Against his brother.’  
11 “But they refused to heed, ashrugged their shoulders, and bstopped their ears so that they could not hear.  
12 Yes, they made their ahearts like flint, brefusing to hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. cThus great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.  
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Zechariah 7:9

Thus spake the Lord - that is, through the former prophets, for he goes on to speak of their rejection in the past. "Execute true judgment." He retains the words of Ezekiel. The injunction itself runs throughout the prophets. "Shew mercy" (as Isaiah 1:17, Isaiah 1:23; Isaiah 58:6-7; Jeremiah 7:5; Ezekiel 18:8; Hosea 12:6, etc.), that is, tender love, to all; compassion, to the unhappy. Omit no act of love, God so loves the loving. Lap.: "Like Paul to the Romans Romans 13:9, he names only the duties to the neighbor, but understands what relates to God. For the love of our neighbor presupposes the love of God, from which it springs." Jerome: "After strictness of justice, let mercy to all follow, and specially to brethren, of the same blood and of one faith. Brother and neighbor we ought to account the whole human race, since we are all born of one parent, or those who are of the household of faith, according to the parable of the Gospel, "which willeth us to understand by neighbor, nor our kin, but all men" (Luke 10:30 ff).




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