Zechariah 7:5-7

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁵ “Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months ^[a]these ^(A)seventy years, was it actually for ^(B)Me that you fasted? ⁶ When you eat and drink, ^[b]do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves? ⁷ Are not these the words which the Lord ^(C)proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and ^[c](D)prosperous along with its cities around it, and the ^[d](E)Negev and the ^[e]foothills were inhabited?’”