Zechariah 7:4-14

4Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, 5“Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months 1these 2seventy years, was it actually for 3Me that you fasted? 6When you eat and drink, 4do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves? 7Are not these the words which the Lord 5proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and 67prosperous along with its cities around it, and the 89Negev and the 10foothills were inhabited?’”

8Then the word of the Lord came to Zechariah saying, 9“Thus has the Lord of hosts said, ‘11Dispense true justice and practice 12kindness and compassion each to his brother; 10and 13do not oppress the widow or the 14orphan, the 15stranger or the poor; and do 16not devise evil in your hearts against one another.’ 11But they 17refused to pay attention and 1819turned a stubborn shoulder and 2021stopped their ears from hearing. 12They made their 22hearts like 2324flint 25so that they could not hear the law and the 26words which the Lord of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the 27former prophets; therefore great 28wrath came from the Lord of hosts. 13And just as 29He called and they would not listen, so 30they called and I would not listen,” says the Lord of hosts; 14“but I 3132scattered them with a 33storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is 34desolated behind them 35so that 36no one went back and forth, for they 37made the pleasant land desolate.”