³ speaking to the ^(A)priests who belong to the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the ^(B)fifth month ^[a]and abstain, as I have done these many years?”

⁵ “Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, ‘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?