speaking to the (A)priests who belong to the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the (B)fifth month [a]and abstain, as I have done these many years?” Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, “Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months [b]these (C)seventy years, was it actually for (D)Me that you fasted?

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:3 Lit abstaining; or dedicating myself
  2. Zechariah 7:5 Lit and these

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?

Read full chapter