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speaking to the (A)priests, who belong to the house of Yahweh of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the (B)fifth month [a]and abstain, as I have done these many years?” Then the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying, “Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months [b]these (C)seventy years, was it actually for (D)Me that you fasted?

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:3 Or dedicating myself; lit abstaining
  2. Zechariah 7:5 Lit and these