Bible Verses

They hardened their hearts, like diamonds, so they would not hear the law or the words the Lord, the God of hosts, spoke through his spirit by the earlier prophets.

But they refused to listen and stubbornly turned their backs, stopping their ears.

Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the alien, or the poor; do not scheme evil in your hearts against each other.

Render fair judgment; be kind and merciful to one another.

Again, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah:

Remember the message that the Lord proclaimed through earlier prophets when Jerusalem was peacefully inhabited, along with the surrounding region, including the Negeb and the western foothills.”

Were you not those who decided to eat and to drink or not to do so?

“Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months during these seventy years, did you truly fast for me—for me, indeed?

And the word of the Lord, God of hosts came to me:

and to question the priests of the house of the Lord, God of hosts, and the prophets: “Must we mourn and fast in the fifth month as we have done these many years?”