⁴ Then came the word of the Lord of hosts to me [Zechariah], saying,

⁵ Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, even those seventy years you were in exile, was it for Me that you fasted, for Me?

⁶ And when you ate and when you drank, did you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?