Zechariah 7:9-12

Christian Standard Bible

⁹ “The Lord of Armies says this: ‘Make fair decisions.^(A) Show faithful love and compassion^(B) to one another. ¹⁰ Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the resident alien or the poor,^(C) and do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’^{(D) 11} But they refused to pay attention^(E) and turned a stubborn shoulder; they closed their ears so they could not hear.^{(F) 12} They made their hearts like a rock so as not to obey the law or the words that the Lord of Armies had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets.^(G) Therefore intense anger came from the Lord of Armies.