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saying to the priests of the house of Yahweh of hosts[a] and to the prophets, “Should I mourn in the fifth month and keep myself separate[b] as I have done for these many years?” And the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying, “Say to all the people of the land and to the priests: ‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:3 Literally “priests who are for the house of Yahweh of hosts”
  2. Zechariah 7:3 Or “abstain”; some interpret this as a reference to fasting

by asking the priests of the house of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I mourn(A) and fast in the fifth(B) month, as I have done for so many years?”

Then the word of the Lord Almighty came to me: “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted(C) and mourned in the fifth and seventh(D) months for the past seventy years,(E) was it really for me that you fasted?

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