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Zechariah 7:6-8
1599 Geneva Bible
Zechariah 7:6-8
1599 Geneva Bible
6 And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did ye not eat[a]for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
7 Should ye not hear the words which the Lord [b]hath cried by the ministry of the former Prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited, and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when the South and the plain was inhabited?
8 And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying,
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- Zechariah 7:6 Did ye not eat and drink for your own commodity and necessity, and so likewise ye did abstain according to your own fantasies, and not after the prescript of my Law.
- Zechariah 7:7 Hereby he condemneth their hypocrisy, which thought by their fasting to please God and by such things as they invented, and in the mean season would not serve him as he had commanded.
Zechariah 7:6-8
New International Version
Zechariah 7:6-8
New International Version
6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?(A) 7 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)
8 And the word of the Lord came again to Zechariah:
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