Zechariah 7:5-7

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁵ Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, even those seventy years you were in exile, was it for Me that you fasted, for Me?

⁶ And when you ate and when you drank, did you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

⁷ Should you not hear the words which the Lord cried by the former prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity with her cities round about her, and the South (the Negeb) and the lowlands were inhabited?