by asking both the priests of the temple<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lord who rules over allsc> and the prophets, &#8220;Should we weep in the fifth month,<n id="2" /> fasting as we have done over the years?&#8221;

&#8220;Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows: &#8216;When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh<n id="1" /> months through all these seventy years, did you truly fast for me &#8211; for me, indeed?

&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all says, &#8216;The fast of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth<n id="1" /> months will become joyful and happy, pleasant feasts for the house of Judah, so love truth and peace.&#8217;