Zechariah 7:9

Hebrew Names Version

"Thus has the LORD of Hosts spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
"This is what the Lord All-Powerful said: ‘You must do what is right and fair. You must be kind and show mercy to each other.

New American Standard Bible
"This is what the LORD of armies has said: 'Dispense true justice and practice kindness and compassion each to his brother;

New Century Version
"This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: ‘Do what is right and true. Be kind and merciful to each other.

Update Bible Version
Thus has Yahweh of hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother;

Webster's Bible Translation
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

Amplified Bible
"Thus has the LORD of hosts said, 'Dispense true justice and practice kindness and compassion, to each other;

English Standard Version
"Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,

World English Bible
"Thus has Yahweh of Hosts spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Deme ye trewe dom, and do ye merci, and doyngis of merci, ech man with his brother.

English Revised Version
Thus hath the LORD of hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassion every man to his brother:

Berean Standard Bible
"This is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.

American Standard Version
Thus hath Jehovah of hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother;

Bible in Basic English
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:

Complete Jewish Bible
"In the past Adonai -Tzva'ot said, ‘Administer true justice. Let everyone show mercy and compassion to his brother.

Darby Translation
Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew loving-kindness and mercies one to another,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Thus hath the LORD of hosts spoken, saying: Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother;

King James Version (1611)
Thus speaketh the Lord of hostes, saying, Execute true iudgement, and shew mercie and compassions euery man to his brother.

New Living Translation
"This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies says: Judge fairly, and show mercy and kindness to one another.

New Life Bible
"The Lord of All said, ‘Do what is right and be kind and show loving-pity to one another.

New Revised Standard
Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus speaketh the Lorde of hostes, saying, Execute true iudgement, and shewe mercy and compassion, euery man to his brother,

George Lamsa Translation
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus, spake Yahweh of hosts, saying, - With true justice, give ye judgment, and, lovingkindness and compassions, observe ye, one with another;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge ye true judgment, and shew ye mercy and compassion every man to his brother.

Revised Standard Version
"Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy each to his brother,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus saith the Lord of hoastes: Execute true iudgement, shew mercie & louing kindnes euery man to his brother.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thus saith the Lord Almighty;

Good News Translation
"Long ago I gave these commands to my people: ‘You must see that justice is done, and must show kindness and mercy to one another.

Christian Standard Bible®
“The Lord of Armies says this: ‘Make fair decisions. Show faithful love and compassion to one another.

King James Version
Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

Lexham English Bible
"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: ‘Judge with trustworthy justice, and show steadfast love and compassion to one another.

Literal Translation
So says Jehovah of Hosts, saying, Judge true judgment, and practice kindness and pity, each man with his brother.

Young's Literal Translation
`Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus saieth ye LORDE of hoostes: Execute true iudgment: shewe mercy and louynge kyndnesse, euery man to his brother:

New English Translation
"The Lord who rules over all said, ‘Exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other.

New King James Version
"Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Execute true justice, Show mercy and compassion Everyone to his brother.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Thus has the LORD of hosts said, 'Dispense true justice and practice kindness and compassion each to his brother;

Legacy Standard Bible
"Thus has Yahweh of hosts said, ‘Judge with true justice and show lovingkindness and compassion each to his brother;

Contextual Overview

⁸ The word of the LORD came to Zekharyah, saying, ⁹ "Thus has the LORD of Hosts spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. ¹⁰ 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.' ¹¹ But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. ¹² Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which the LORD of Hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the LORD of Hosts. ¹³ It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said the LORD of Hosts; ¹⁴ "but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."

Bible Verse Review
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saying: Zechariah 7:7, Zechariah 8:16, Zechariah 8:17, Leviticus 19:15, Leviticus 19:35-37, Deuteronomy 10:18, Deuteronomy 10:19, Deuteronomy 15:7-14, Deuteronomy 16:18-20, Psalms 82:2-4, Proverbs 21:3, Isaiah 58:6-10, Jeremiah 7:5, Jeremiah 7:23, Ezekiel 45:9, Hosea 10:12, Hosea 10:13, Amos 5:24, Micah 6:8, Matthew 23:23, Luke 11:42, James 2:13-17

Execute true judgment: Heb. Judge judgment of truth, Jeremiah 21:12, *marg. John 7:51

Reciprocal: Exodus 18:21 - men Leviticus 10:20 - he was content Proverbs 21:13 - at Proverbs 22:16 - that oppresseth Proverbs 31:9 - General Ecclesiastes 5:8 - regardeth Isaiah 1:17 - seek Isaiah 3:5 - the people Isaiah 5:7 - he looked Isaiah 16:3 - execute Jeremiah 7:6 - oppress Jeremiah 17:11 - he that Jeremiah 22:3 - Execute Ezekiel 18:7 - hath not Ezekiel 18:8 - hath executed Hosea 4:2 - swearing Hosea 12:6 - keep Haggai 2:17 - yet Matthew 21:34 - he sent Mark 12:3 - and sent Luke 20:10 - sent 1 Peter 3:8 - having

Cross-References

Genesis 2:19
Out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

Genesis 7:6
Noach was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the eretz.

Genesis 7:9
went by pairs to Noach into the teivah, male and female, as God commanded Noach.

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noach's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

Genesis 7:12
The rain was on the eretz forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:16
Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.

Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says the LORD.

Jeremiah 8:7
Yes, the khasidah in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don't know the law of the LORD.

Galatians 3:28
There is neither Yehudi nor Yevanit, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Messiah Yeshua.

Colossians 3:11
where there can't be Yevanit and Yehudi, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Messiah is all, and in all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying,.... The same things as he had before; for the things following are ever in force, and always to be attended to, and to be regarded and preferred before anything merely ritual and ceremonial; and especially before the traditions and commandments of men, of which nature the above fasts were:

Execute true judgment; or, "judge judgment e of truth"; this is addressed to the judges of the people, that when any cause came before them between man and man, that they would judge righteously, according to the law of God; and, without respect to persons, pass sentence as the truth of the case required:

and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother; whether in want of food, raiment, or in whatsoever distress, whether of body or mind; which is much more acceptable to God than any legal sacrifices, or outward abstinences and humiliations, Hosea 6:6.

e משפט אמת "judicium veritatis", Montanus, Calvin, Cocceius, Burkius; "jus veritatis", Junius & Tremellius, Tarnovius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thus spake the Lord - that is, through the former prophets, for he goes on to speak of their rejection in the past. “Execute true judgment.” He retains the words of Ezekiel. The injunction itself runs throughout the prophets. “Shew mercy” (as Isaiah 1:17, Isaiah 1:23; Isaiah 58:6-7; Jeremiah 7:5; Ezekiel 18:8; Hosea 12:6, etc.), that is, tender love, to all; compassion, to the unhappy. Omit no act of love, God so loves the loving. Lap.: “Like Paul to the Romans Romans 13:9, he names only the duties to the neighbor, but understands what relates to God. For the love of our neighbor presupposes the love of God, from which it springs.” Jerome: “After strictness of justice, let mercy to all follow, and specially to brethren, of the same blood and of one faith. Brother and neighbor we ought to account the whole human race, since we are all born of one parent, or those who are of the household of faith, according to the parable of the Gospel, “which willeth us to understand by neighbor, nor our kin, but all men” (Luke 10:30 ff).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 7:9. Execute true judgment — See the parallel texts in the margin. (Isaiah 58:6-7; Jeremiah 7:23; Micah 6:8)