Zechariah 7:9
“Thus spoke YHWH of Hosts, saying, || Judge [with] true judgment, || And do kindness and mercy with one another.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8And there is a word of YHWH to Zechariah, saying,
Cross References
Leviticus 19:15You do not do perversity in judgment; you do not lift up the face of the poor, nor honor the face of the great; you judge your fellow in righteousness.
Deuteronomy 10:18He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give bread and raiment to him.
Deuteronomy 16:18You set for yourself judges and authorities within all your gates which your God YHWH is giving to you, for your tribes; and they have judged the people [with] a righteous judgment.
Psalms 82:2Until when do you judge perversely? And lift up the face of the wicked? Selah.
Proverbs 21:3To do righteousness and judgment, || Is chosen of YHWH rather than sacrifice.
Jeremiah 7:5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, || If you thoroughly do judgment || Between a man and his neighbor,
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 7:9-14
Wilful Disobedience of Israel; Consequences of Disobedience. ( b. c. 520.) 8 And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying, 9 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: 10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. 11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. 12… Read the whole commentary →