Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, “Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months [a]these (A)seventy years, was it actually for (B)Me that you fasted? When you eat and drink, [b]do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:5 Lit and these
  2. Zechariah 7:6 Lit is it not you who eat and you who drink

Then the word of the Lord Almighty came to me: “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted(A) and mourned in the fifth and seventh(B) months for the past seventy years,(C) was it really for me that you fasted? And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?(D)

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