Zechariah 7:5-7

English Standard Version Anglicised

⁵ “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, When you fasted and mourned in ^(A)the fifth month and in ^(B)the seventh, for these ^(C)seventy years, ^(D)was it ^(E)for me that you fasted? ^6 (F)And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves? ^7 (G)Were not these the words that the Lord proclaimed ^(H)by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, ^(I)with her cities round her, and the ^(J)South and the ^(K)lowland were inhabited?”