4. Then 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 during those seventy years, did you really fast for Me—for Me?
6. When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves?
7. Should you not have obeyed the words which the Lord proclaimed through the former prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and the South and the Lowland were inhabited?’ ”
8. Then the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,
9. “Thus says the Lord of hosts:‘Execute true justice,Show mercy and compassionEveryone to his brother.
10. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless,The alien or the poor.Let none of you plan evil in his heartAgainst his brother.’