1 On the fourth day of the ninth month in the fourth year of Darius, the king,
2 the people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regemmelech with their men to win the favor of Yahweh
3 and to question the priests of the House of Yahweh, God of hosts, and the prophets, "Must we mourn and fast in the fifth month as we have done these many years?"
4 And the word of Yahweh, God of hosts came to me:
5 "Speak to the inhabitants of the land and to the priests; say to them: When you fasted and mourned in September and December for seventy years, was I the one who made you fast?
6 Were you not those who decided to eat and to drink or not to do so?
7 Remember the message that Yahweh proclaimed through earlier prophets when Jerusalem was peacefully inhabited and the surrounding region as well, when the Negeb and the western foothills were settled.
8 Yahweh said,
9 Render true judgment, be kind and merciful to each other.
10 Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the alien or the poor, do not plot evil in your heart against one another.
11 But they refused to listen and stubbornly turned their back, stopping their ears.
12 They made their hearts hard as diamonds so as not to hear the Law or the words that Yahweh, the God of hosts spoke by his spirit through the earlier prophets.
13 Then Yahweh, God of hosts in his great anger proclaimed that just as they had not listened when he called to them, so when they cried to him he would not listen.
14 Yahweh said he would scatter them as in a whirlwind among nations they did not know and the land behind them would be devastated without anyone passing through it. In that way a pleasant land was made desolate."
Versículos relacionados com Zechariah, 7:
Zacarias 7 deals with the questioning of Jews about the continuity of the fasts in the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months of the year. The prophet Zechariah answers this question with a message from God, which emphasizes the importance of justice, mercy, and compassion, above religious rituals. Below are five verses related to the topics covered in Zechariah 7, in order of proximity to the chapter:
Proverbs 21:3: "Practicing justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than to offer you sacrifices." This verse highlights the importance of justice, which is a central theme in Zechariah 7.
Isaiah 58:6-7: "This is not the fast I chose, that he leaves the ligasures of wickedness, undo the jug's bandages, and leaves the broken free, and that shatters all yoke? Your bread with the hungry, and collect at home the helpless poor? And when you see the naked, the cubes, and do not hide from your flesh? " This verse emphasizes the importance of mercy and compassion, which are values that Zacharias 7 highlights as more important than fasting.
Matthew 23:23: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For that dizimal mint, dill and cumin, and despise the most important of the law, judgment, mercy and faith, but you must do it These things, not omit those. " This verse highlights the importance of justice, mercy and faith, which are values emphasized in Zechariah 7.
1 John 3:17: "But if anyone has this world and comes to his brother to have a need, and close his heart, how will the love of God be in him?" This verse highlights the importance of compassion and love for others, which are values highlighted in Zechariah 7.
Luke 6:36: "thirst for merciful, as well as your Father is merciful." This verse emphasizes the importance of mercy and compassion, which are values highlighted in Zechariah 7.
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