Go
Articles on

Zechariah 7

Zech. 7:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

+
9
Thus speaketh
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
of hosts
tsaba' (Hebrew #6635)
from 6633; a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
KJV usage: appointed time, (+) army, (+) battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war(-fare).
Pronounce: tsaw-baw'
Origin: or (feminine) tsbadah {tseb-aw-aw'}
, saying
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, σExecute
shaphat (Hebrew #8199)
to judge, i.e. pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: + avenge, X that condemn, contend, defend, execute (judgment), (be a) judge(-ment), X needs, plead, reason, rule.
Pronounce: shaw-fat'
Origin: a primitive root
true
'emeth (Hebrew #571)
stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness
KJV usage: assured(-ly), establishment, faithful, right, sure, true (-ly, -th), verity.
Pronounce: eh'-meth
Origin: contracted from 539
judgment
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
, and show
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
mercy
checed (Hebrew #2617)
kindness; by implication (towards God) piety: rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
KJV usage: favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-)kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.
Pronounce: kheh'-sed
Origin: from 2616
and compassions
racham (Hebrew #7356)
compassion (in the plural); by extension, the womb (as cherishing the fetus); by implication, a maiden
KJV usage: bowels, compassion, damsel, tender love, (great, tender) mercy, pity, womb.
Pronounce: rakh'-am
Origin: from 7355
every man
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
to his brother
'ach (Hebrew #251)
a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like 1))
KJV usage: another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with "Ah-" or "Ahi-".
Pronounce: awkh
Origin: a primitive word
:
σ
Judge judgment if truth.

More on:

+
Lord of Hosts,
Mercy

Cross References

+

Ministry on This Verse

+
saying.
Zech. 7:7• 7Should ye not hear the words which Jehovah hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, {i}and her cities round about her, when the south and the lowland were inhabited?{/i} (Zech. 7:7)
;
Zech. 8:16‑17• 16{i}These are the things that ye shall do: Speak truth every one with his neighbour; execute truth and the judgment of peace in your gates;{/i}
 17{i}and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith Jehovah.{/i} (Zech. 8:16‑17)
;
Lev. 19:15,35‑37• 15Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shall not respect the person of the lowly, nor honour the person of the mighty; in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
 35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in measure.
 36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I [am] Jehovah your God that brought you out of the land of Egypt.
 37And ye shall observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I [am] Jehovah. (Lev. 19:15,35‑37)
;
Deut. 10:18‑19• 18{i}who executeth the judgment of the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and clothing.{/i}
 19{i}And ye shall love the stranger; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt.{/i} (Deut. 10:18‑19)
;
Deut. 15:7‑14• 7{i}If there be amongst you a poor man, any one of thy brethren in one of thy gates, in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy brother in need;{/i}
 8{i}but thou shalt open thy hand bountifully unto him, and shalt certainly lend him on pledge what is sufficient for his need, in that which he lacketh.{/i}
 9{i}Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be sin in thee.{/i}
 10{i}Thou shalt bountifully give unto him, and thy heart shall not be evil-disposed when thou givest unto him; because for this thing Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy works, and in all the business of thy hand.{/i}
 11{i}For the needy shall never cease from within the land; therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thy hand bountifully unto thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy, in thy land.{/i}
 12{i}If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, have been sold unto thee, he shall serve thee six years, and in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.{/i}
 13{i}And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty;{/i}
 14{i}thou shalt certainly furnish him from thy sheep, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of what Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee with shalt thou give unto him.{/i} (Deut. 15:7‑14)
;
Deut. 16:18‑20• 18{i}Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes, that they may judge the people with just judgment.{/i}
 19{i}Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a bribe; for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.{/i}
 20{i}Perfect justice shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and possess the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.{/i} (Deut. 16:18‑20)
;
Psa. 82:2‑4• 2How long will ye judge unjustly{HR}And respect the person of the wicked? Selah.
 3Judge the poor (man) and fatherless;{HR}Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
 4{i}Rescue the poor and the needy{/i},{HR}Deliver them from the hand of the wicked. (Psa. 82:2‑4)
;
Prov. 21:3• 3To exercise justice and judgment{HR}[Is] more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice. (Prov. 21:3)
;
Isa. 58:6‑10• 6[Is] not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
 7[Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor wanderers to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
 8Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy healing shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee, the glory of Jehovah shall be thy rearward.
 9Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and the speaking vanity;
 10and [if] thou proffer thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine obscurity [be] as the noonday: (Isa. 58:6‑10)
;
Jer. 7:5,23• 5For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
 23{i}but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.{/i} (Jer. 7:5,23)
;
Ezek. 45:9• 9Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 45:9)
;
Hos. 10:12‑13• 12{i}Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.{/i}
 13{i}Ye have ploughed wickedness, reaped iniquity, eaten the fruit of lies; for thou didst confide in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.{/i} (Hos. 10:12‑13)
;
Amos 5:24• 24But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. (Amos 5:24)
;
Mic. 6:8• 8He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? (Mic. 6:8)
;
Matt. 23:23• 23{i}Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye pay tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and ye have left aside the weightier matters of the law, judgment and mercy and faith: these ye ought to have done and not have left those aside.{/i} (Matt. 23:23)
;
Luke 11:42• 42{i}But{/i} woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe the mint and the rue and every herb, and pass by the judgment and the love of God: these ye ought to have done, and not have left those aside. (Luke 11:42)
;
James 2:13‑17• 13for the judgment [is] merciless to him that showed no mercy. Mercy glorieth over judgment.
 14What [is] the profit, my brethren, if one say he have faith, but have not works? Can faith save him?
 15If a brother or a sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
 16and one from among you say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled, but ye give them not the things needful for the body, what [is] the profit?
 17So also faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. (James 2:13‑17)
Execute true judgment.
Heb. Judge judgment of truth.
Jer. 21:12• 12O house of David, thus saith Jehovah; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. (Jer. 21:12)
;
Jer. 21•  (Jer. 21)
:*marg:;
John 7:51• 51Doth our law judge the man, unless it have first heard from him, and know what he doeth? (John 7:51)
• Verses 9 and 10 give the substance of His former messages to His people; verses 11 and 12 point out the way in which His word had been refused; and verses 13 and 14 show that the withering judgments which had fallen upon Israel and the land were the consequence of their hardened hearts and sinful rebellion. (“Zechariah 7” by E. Dennett)
• {v.9-10} It will be perceived that it is the second table of the law — love to their neighbors — to which the Lord had recalled the attention of His people in the days of their prosperity. (“Zechariah 7” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

+
9
Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, Executec true judgment, and shew loving-kindness and mercies one to another,

JND Translation Notes

+
c
Lit. "Judge."

W. Kelly Translation

+
9
Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother,

WK Verse Note

+
(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)