Zechariah 7:4-7
New American Standard Bible
4 Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying, 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? 6 And when you eat and drink, [b]do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves? 7 Are these not the words which the Lord (C)proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and (D)carefree along with its cities around it, and the [c](E)Negev and the [d]foothills were inhabited?’”
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- Zechariah 7:5 Lit and this
- Zechariah 7:6 Lit is it not you who eat and you who drink
- Zechariah 7:7 I.e., South country
- Zechariah 7:7 Heb Shephelah
Zechariah 7:4-7
International Standard Version
4 Then this message from the Lord of the Heavenly Armies came to me: 5 “Talk to everyone in the land, as well as to the priests. Ask them, ‘When you were fasting and mourning during the fifth and seventh months[a] for the past seventy years, were you really fasting for me? 6 And when you eat and drink, you’re eating and drinking for your own benefit, aren’t you? 7 Isn’t this what the Lord proclaimed through the former prophets, when a prosperous Jerusalem was inhabited, as were its surrounding cities, the Negev,[b] and the Shephelah?’”[c]
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- Zechariah 7:5 The Heb. lacks months
- Zechariah 7:7 I.e. southern region of Israel; cf. Josh 10:40
- Zechariah 7:7 I.e. the verdant central lowlands of Israel; cf. Josh 10:40
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