Zechariah 7:8-14

⁸Then the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying, ⁹“This is what the Lord of armies has said: ‘Dispense true justice and practice kindness and compassion each to his brother; ¹⁰and do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the stranger or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.’ ¹¹But they refused to pay attention, and turned a stubborn shoulder and plugged their ears from hearing. ¹²They also made their hearts as hard as a diamond so that they could not hear the Law and the words which the Lord of armies had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from the Lord of armies. ¹³And just as He called and they would not listen, so they called and I would not listen,” says the Lord of armies; ¹⁴“but I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they did not know. So the land was desolated behind them so that no one went back and forth, since they made the pleasant land desolate.”