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?


In Context

3 speaking unto the priests who are at the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and unto the prophets, saying, 'Do I weep in the fifth month — being separated — as I have done these so many years?'

4 And there is a word of Jehovah of Hosts unto me, saying:

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

6 When 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?

7 Are not these the words that Jehovah proclaimed by the hand of the former prophets, in Jerusalem's being inhabited, and in safety, and its cities round about it, and the south and the plain — abiding?'

8 And there is a word of Jehovah unto Zechariah, saying:

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:6And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting 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 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?