Zechariah 7:3-5

New American Standard Bible 1995

³ speaking to the ^(A)priests who belong to the house of the Lord 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?” ⁴ Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, ⁵ “Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, ‘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?