Zechariah 7:3-5

New Century Version

³ They went to the prophets and priests who were at the Temple of the Lord All-Powerful. The men said, “For years in the fifth month of each year we have shown our sadness and fasted. Should we continue to do this?”

⁴ The Lord All-Powerful spoke his word to me, saying, ⁵ “Tell the priests and the people in the land: ‘For seventy years you fasted and cried in the fifth and seventh months, but that was not really for me.