Zechariah 7:4-7

Modern English Version

⁴ Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: ⁵ Say to all the people in the land and to the priests: When you fasted and lamented during the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for Me? ⁶ And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves? ⁷ Were these not the very words that the former prophets proclaimed when Jerusalem dwelled with ease along with her surrounding cities, and when the Negev and the Lowland were inhabited?