Zechariah · Berean Standard Bible
Zechariah 7 Berean Standard Bible
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1 In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
1 Y ACONTECIÓ en el año cuarto del rey Darío, que fué palabra de Jehová á Zacarías á los cuatro del mes noveno, que es Chisleu;
2 Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along with their men, to plead before the LORD
2 Cuando fué enviado á la casa de Dios, Saraser, con Regem-melech y sus hombres, á implorar el favor de Jehová,
3 by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”
3 Y á hablar á los sacerdotes que estaban en la casa de Jehová de los ejércitos, y á los profetas, diciendo: ¿Lloraremos en el mes quinto? ¿haremos abstinencia como hemos hecho ya algunos años?
4 Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,
4 Fué pues á mí palabra de Jehová de los ejércitos, diciendo:
5 “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
5 Habla á todo el pueblo del país, y á los sacerdotes, diciendo: Cuando ayunasteis y llorasteis en el quinto y en el séptimo [mes] estos setenta años, ¿habéis ayunado para mí?
6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
6 Y cuando coméis y bebéis, ¿no coméis y bebéis para vosotros?
7 Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”
7 ¿No son [estas] las palabras que publicó Jehová por mano de los profetas primeros, cuando Jerusalem estaba habitada y quieta, y sus ciudades en sus alrededores, y el mediodía y la campiña se habitaban?
8 Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,
8 Y fué palabra de Jehová á Zacarías, diciendo:
9 “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
9 Así habló Jehová de los ejércitos, diciendo: Juzgad juicio verdadero, y haced misericordia y piedad cada cual con su hermano:
10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
10 No agraviéis á la viuda, ni al huérfano, ni al extranjero, ni al pobre; ni ninguno piense mal en su corazón contra su hermano.
11 But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
11 Empero no quisieron escuchar, antes dieron hombro rebelado, y agravaron sus oídos para no oir:
12 They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.
12 Y pusieron su corazón como diamante, para no oir la ley ni las palabras que Jehová de los ejércitos enviaba por su espíritu, por mano de los profetas primeros: fué, por tanto, hecho grande castigo por Jehová de los ejércitos.
13 And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
13 Y aconteció que como él clamó, y no escucharon, así ellos clamaron, y yo no escuché, dice Jehová de los ejércitos;
14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”
14 Antes los esparcí con torbellino por todas las gentes que ellos no conocían, y la tierra fué desolada tras de ellos, sin quedar quien fuese ni viniese; pues tornaron en asolamiento el país deseable.
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Regem-melech
A man sent with Sharezer by the people of Bethel to plead before the LORD.
Cited in the guide: Zechariah 7:2
Cross references (13)
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- 1 Nehemiah 1:1; Zechariah 1:1; Ezra 6:14–15; Haggai 2:10
- 2 Zechariah 8:21; 1 Samuel 13:12; Jeremiah 26:19; 1 Kings 13:6; Isaiah 60:7
- 3 Zechariah 8:19; James 4:8–10; Hosea 4:6; 1 Corinthians 7:5; Matthew 9:15
- 4 Isaiah 10:16
- 5 Zechariah 1:12; Isaiah 58:4–6; Matthew 5:16–18; 1 Corinthians 10:31; Zechariah 7:6
- 6 1 Corinthians 11:20–21; 1 Corinthians 11:26–29; Hosea 8:13; Colossians 3:17; Deuteronomy 12:7
- 7 Isaiah 1:16–20; Jeremiah 17:26; Jeremiah 7:23; Isaiah 55:6–7; Jeremiah 7:5
- 9 Micah 6:8; Psalm 82:2–4; Proverbs 21:3; Jeremiah 7:5; Luke 11:42
- 10 Jeremiah 5:28; Deuteronomy 27:19; Psalm 21:11; Psalm 72:4; James 5:4
- 11 Nehemiah 9:29; Jeremiah 8:5; Hosea 4:16; Ezekiel 3:7; Acts 7:57
- 12 2 Chronicles 36:16; Nehemiah 9:29–30; Ezekiel 11:19; Acts 28:27; Ezekiel 36:26
- 13 Proverbs 1:24–28; Jeremiah 14:12; Isaiah 1:15; Jeremiah 11:11; Micah 3:4
- 14 Deuteronomy 28:33; Deuteronomy 28:64; Jeremiah 23:19; Deuteronomy 4:27; Jeremiah 5:15
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Wash you, make you clean, put away evil from your hearts, learn to do well, seek judgment, protect the oppressed, judge the fatherless (pupillo), plead for the widow; and come, let us reason together, saith the Lord." And again: "Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips that they speak no guile; depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, …