4. Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,
5. Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did you at all fast unto me, even to me?
6. And when you did eat, and when you did drink, did not you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
7. Should you not hear the words which the LORD has cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and her cities round about her, when men inhabited the south and the lowland?
8. And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying,
9. Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother:
10. And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
11. But they refused to hearken, and shrugged the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.