6And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?


In Context

3 by asking the priests of the house of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, "Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?"

4 Then the word of the Lord Almighty came to me:

5 "Ask all the people of the land and the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?

6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?

7 Are these not the words the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were at rest and prosperous, and the Negev and the western foothills were settled?' "

8 And the word of the Lord came again to Zechariah:

Zechariah 7:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:6And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat [for yourselves,] and drink [for yourselves? ]

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:6And when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:6And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:6And when ye ate, and when ye drank, was it not you that were eating and drinking?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:6And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:6And when ye ate, and when ye drank, did ye not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:6When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:6When ye fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh months — even these seventy years — did ye keep the fast to Me — Me? And when ye eat, and when ye drink, is it not ye who are eating, and ye who are drinking?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:6And when you did eat, and when you did drink, did not you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?