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.
12. Yea, they made their hearts as a flint stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts has sent by his Spirit through the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
13. Therefore it has come to pass, that just as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, says the LORD of hosts: