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| [1]And in the fourth yere of king Darius, the word of the lorde came vnto Zacharia in the fourth [day] of the ninth moneth, which is called Casleu |
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| [2]What time as Sarasar & Rogommelech, and the men that were with them, sent vnto the house of God for to pray before the Lorde |
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| [3]And that they shoulde speake vnto the priestes which were in the house of the Lorde of hoastes, and to the prophetes, saying: should I wepe in the fifth moneth, & abstayne as I haue done nowe certaine yeres |
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| [4]Then came the worde of the Lorde of hoastes vnto me, saying |
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| [5]Speake vnto al the people of the land, and to the priestes, & say: When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth & seuenth moneth now this threescore & ten yeres, did ye fast vnto me |
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| [6]When ye did eate also & drincke, did ye not eate & drincke for your owne selues |
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| [7]Are not these the wordes which the Lord spake by his prophetes aforetime, when Hierusalem was yet inhabited & wealthy, she and the cities round about her, whe there dwelt men both toward the south and in the playne countreys |
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| [8]And the worde of the Lorde came vnto Zachari, saying |
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| [9]Thus saith the Lord of hoastes: Execute true iudgement, shew mercie & louing kindnes euery man to his brother |
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| [10]Do the wydow, the fatherlesse, the straungers and poore no wrong, and let no man imagine euil against his brother in his heart |
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| [11]Neuerthelesse, they would not take heede, but turned their backes, & stopped their eares that they should not heare |
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| [12]Yea, they made their heartes as an Adamant stone, lest they should heare the law and wordes which the Lorde of hoastes sent in his holy spirite by the prophetes aforetime: Wherfore the lord of hoastes was very wroth at them |
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| [13]And thus is it come to passe, that like as he cryed, and they would not heare: euen so they cryed, & I would not heare saith the Lord God of hoastes |
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| [14]But scattred them among al the nations whom they knew not: Thus the land was made so desolate after them, that there trauayled no man in it neither to nor fro: for that plesaunt lande was vtterly layd waste |
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