(A)When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves? Should you not have obeyed the words which the Lord proclaimed through the (B)former prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and (C)the [a]South and the Lowland were inhabited?’ ”

Disobedience Resulted in Captivity

Then the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:7 Heb. Negev

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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