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And when you eat and when you drink, [a]are you not eating for yourselves and are you not drinking for yourselves? Are not these the words which Yahweh (A)called out by the hand of the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and (B)at ease along with its cities around it, and the [b](C)Negev and the [c]Shephelah were inhabited?’”

Then the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah saying,

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:6 Lit is it not you who eat and you who drink
  2. Zechariah 7:7 South country
  3. Zechariah 7:7 Or lowland

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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