When you eat and drink, don’t you eat and drink simply for yourselves?(A) Aren’t these the words that the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and secure,[a] along with its surrounding cities, and when the southern region and the Judean foothills were inhabited?”

The word of the Lord came to Zechariah:

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  1. 7:7 Or prosperous

And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?(A) Are these not the words the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets(B) when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were at rest(C) and prosperous, and the Negev and the western foothills(D) were settled?’”(E)

And the word of the Lord came again to Zechariah:

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