Zechariah 7:8-13

8And the word of the Lord came again to Zechariah:

9“This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.

10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’

11“But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears.

12They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Lord Almighty was very angry.

13“ ‘When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,’ says the Lord Almighty.