And when you eat and drink, [a]do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves? Are these not the words which the Lord (A)proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and (B)carefree along with its cities around it, and the [b](C)Negev and the [c]foothills were inhabited?’”

Then the word of the Lord 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 I.e., South country
  3. Zechariah 7:7 Heb Shephelah

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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