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5 The true fasting. 11 The rebellion of the people, is the cause of their affliction.
[unspec A] 1 AND in the fourth yere of king Darius, the word of the lorde came vnto Zacharia in the fourth [day] of the ninth moneth, which is cal∣led Cas••eu,
2 What time as Sarasar & Rogomme∣lech, and the men that were with them, sent vnto the house of God for to pray before the Lorde:
3 And that they shoulde speake vnto the
priestes which were in the house of the Lorde of hoastes, and to the prophetes, saying: should I wepe in the * 1.1 fifth mo∣neth, & abstayne as I haue done nowe certaine yeres?
4 Then came the worde of the Lorde of hoastes vnto me, saying:
5 Speake vnto al the people of the land, and to the priestes, & say: When ye fast∣ed and mourned in the fifth * 1.2 & seuenth moneth now this threescore & ten yeres, did ye fast vnto me?
6 When ye did eate also & drincke, did ye not eate & drincke for your owne selues?
[unspec B] 7 Are not these the wordes which the Lord spake by his prophetes aforetime, when Hierusalem was yet inhabited & wealthy, she and the cities round about her, whē there dwelt men both toward the south and in the playne countreys?
8 And the worde of the Lorde came vn∣to Zachari, saying:
9 Thus saith the Lord of hoastes: * 1.3 Exe∣cute true iudgement, shew mercie & lo∣uing kindnes euery man to his brother.
10 Do the wydow, the fatherlesse, the straungers and poore no wrong, and le•• no man imagine euil against his brother in his heart.
11 * 1.4Neuerthelesse, they would not take heede, but turned their backes, & stopped their eares that they should not heare:
12 Yea, they made their heartes as an A¦damant stone, lest they should heare the law and wordes * 1.5 which the Lorde of hoastes sent in his holy spirite by the prophetes aforetime: Wherfore the lord of hoastes was very wroth at them.
13 And thus is it come to passe, * 1.6 that like as he cryed, and they would not heare: [unspec C] euen so they cryed, & I would not heare saith the Lord God of hoastes:
14 But scattred them among al the nati∣ons whom they knew not: Thus the land was made so desolate after them, that there trauayled no man in it nei¦ther to nor fro: for that plesaunt lande was vtterly layd waste.
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