Zechariah 7:3-5

International Standard Version

³ and to speak to the priests assigned^[a] to the Temple of the Lord of the Heavenly Armies along with the prophets, asking, “Am I to go about mourning, denying myself throughout the fifth month,^[b] as I have these many years?”

⁴ Then this message from the Lord of the Heavenly Armies came to me: ⁵ “Talk to everyone in the land, as well as to the priests. Ask them, ‘When you were fasting and mourning during the fifth and seventh months^[c] for the past seventy years, were you really fasting for me?