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The LORD’s message calls for true justice, steadfast love and mercy, and refusing to oppress the vulnerable in Zechariah 7:9–10. The passage then describes how earlier generations refused to listen, turned a stubborn shoulder, and made their hearts like diamond in Zechariah 7:11–12. The contrast explains why judgment and scattering followed.
9Thus has Yahweh of Hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother;
10and don`t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.
11But they refused to listen, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
12Yes, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets: therefore there came great wrath from Yahweh of Hosts.