Zechariah 7:6-8

New King James Version

^6 (A)When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves? ⁷ Should you not have obeyed the words which the Lord proclaimed through the ^(B)former prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and ^(C)the ^[a]South and the Lowland were inhabited?’ ”

Disobedience Resulted in Captivity

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