Zechariah 7:13

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English

because he told them everything plainly and they wouldn’t listen to a word he said.

^13–14“So [this is what God-of-the-Angel-Armies said] if they won’t listen to me, I won’t listen to them.

“As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear,” says the Lord of hosts,

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

Just as he had called, and they would not listen, so when they called, I would not listen, says the Lord of Armies.

“Since they refused to listen when I called to them, I would not listen when they called to me, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

‘Thus, just as I called and they would not hear, so they will call and I will not hear,’ says Yahweh of hosts.

Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear;

So they cried, and I would not hear, saith the Lord of hosts:

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