Zechariah 7:6-8

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶ And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves? ⁷ When Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, with her cities round about her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited, were not these the words which the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets?”

Punishment for Rejecting God’s Demands

⁸ And the word of the Lord came to Zechari′ah, saying,