Zechariah 7:6-8

New American Standard Bible

⁶ And when you eat and drink, ^[a]do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves? ⁷ Are these not the words which the Lord ^(A)proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and ^(B)carefree along with its cities around it, and the ^[b](C)Negev and the ^[c]foothills were inhabited?’”

⁸ Then the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,