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12 Therefore in that day Lord Yahweh of hosts called you to (A)weeping, to wailing,
To (B)shaving the head, and to wearing sackcloth.
13 Instead, behold, there is (C)joy and gladness,
Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep,
Eating of meat and drinking of wine:
(D)Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.”

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“Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months [a]these (A)seventy years, was it actually for (B)Me that you fasted? And when you eat and when you drink, [b]are you not eating for yourselves and are you not drinking for yourselves?

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:5 Lit and these
  2. Zechariah 7:6 Lit is it not you who eat and you who drink