12 Therefore in that day the Lord [a]God of hosts called you to (A)weeping, to wailing,
To (B)shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth.
13 Instead, there is (C)gaiety and gladness,
Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep,
Eating of meat and drinking of wine:
(D)Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 22:12 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord

“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? When you eat and drink, [b]do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:5 Lit and these
  2. Zechariah 7:6 Lit is it not you who eat and you who drink