Zechariah 7:4-8
7:4 The word of the
Lord who rules over all then came to me,
7:5 “Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows: ‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh
months through all these seventy years, did you truly fast for me – for me, indeed?
7:6 And now when you eat and drink, are you not doing so for yourselves?’”
7:7 Should you not have obeyed the words that the
Lord cried out through the former prophets when Jerusalem
was peacefully inhabited and her surrounding cities, the Negev, and the Shephelah
were also populated?
7:8 Again the word of the Lord came to Zechariah: