Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in (A)the fifth month and in (B)the seventh, for these (C)seventy years, (D)was it (E)for me that you fasted? (F)And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves? (G)Were not these the words that the Lord proclaimed (H)by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, (I)with her cities around her, and the (J)South and the (K)lowland were inhabited?’”

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