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And when you eat and drink, is it not for yourselves that you eat and drink? Weren’t these the words that the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, with her cities around her, and when the Negev and the Shephelah[a] were inhabited?

Then the word of the Lord came to Zechariah:

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:7 The Negev and Shephelah are the dry southland and the western foothills of Judah.

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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