Zechariah 7:5-7

The Voice

Message: ⁵ Ask the citizens of the land and the priests, “When you fasted and mourned during the fifth and seventh months for the last seventy years, were you really fasting for My benefit or just for yourselves? ⁶ When you were feasting on holy days, weren’t you just eating and drinking for yourselves instead of honoring Me? ⁷ Aren’t these the same directives the Eternal One gave you through the work of earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was bustling with people and prosperous, when the villages around Jerusalem throughout the south^[a] and the western valleys were settled?”