5|Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?


In Context

2 The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat Yahweh's favor,

3 and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, |Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?|

4 Then the word of Yahweh of Armies came to me, saying,

5 |Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?

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

7 Aren't these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?'|

Zechariah 7:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh [month,] even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, [even] to me?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:5"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?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month , even these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye really fast unto me, even unto me?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast to me, even to me?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5'Speak unto all the people of the land, and unto the priests, saying:

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did you at all fast to me, even to me?