12 Therefore on that day the Lord [a]God of armies called you to (A)weeping, to wailing,
To (B)shaving the head, and to wearing sackcloth.
13 Instead, there is (C)joy and jubilation,
Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep,
Eating of meat and drinking of wine:
(D)Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 22:12 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord

“Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months [a]these (A)seventy years, was it actually for (B)Me that you fasted? And when you eat and drink, [b]do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:5 Lit and this
  2. Zechariah 7:6 Lit is it not you who eat and you who drink

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