Zechariah 7:4-7

International Children’s Bible

⁴ The Lord of heaven’s armies spoke his word to me. He said, ⁵ “Tell the priests and the people in the country this: ‘For 70 years you went without food and cried in the fifth and seventh months. But that was not really for me. ⁶ And when you ate and drank, it was really for yourselves. ⁷ The Lord used the earlier prophets to say the same thing. Jerusalem and the surrounding towns were at peace and wealthy then. People lived in the southern area and the western mountain slopes.’”