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saying to the priests of the house of Yahweh of hosts[a] and to the prophets, “Should I mourn in the fifth month and keep myself separate[b] as I have done for these many years?” And the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying, “Say to all the people of the land and to the priests: ‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:3 Literally “priests who are for the house of Yahweh of hosts”
  2. Zechariah 7:3 Or “abstain”; some interpret this as a reference to fasting