1. On the fourth day of Chislev, the ninth month of the fourth year that Darius was king of Persia, the Lord again spoke to me.
10. Don't ill-treat widows or orphans or foreigners or anyone who is poor, and stop making plans to hurt each other.”
11-12. But everyone who heard those prophets, stubbornly refused to obey. Instead, they turned their backs on everything my Spirit had commanded the earlier prophets to preach. So I, the Lord, became angry