Zechariah 7:6-8

Modern English Version

⁶ And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves? ⁷ Were these not the very words that the former prophets proclaimed when Jerusalem dwelled with ease along with her surrounding cities, and when the Negev and the Lowland were inhabited?

Punishment for Rejecting God’s Demands

⁸ And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying: