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Zechariah 7:6

“And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?”
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4Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,

5“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?

6And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?

7Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”

8Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,

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