Zechariah 7:6
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New International Version (©2011)
And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?

New Living Translation (©2007)
And even now in your holy festivals, aren't you eating and drinking just to please yourselves?

English Standard Version (©2001)
And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'When you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When you eat and drink, don't you eat and drink simply for yourselves?

International Standard Version (©2012)
And when you eat and drink, you're eating and drinking for your own benefit, aren't you?

NET Bible (©2006)
And now when you eat and drink, are you not doing so for yourselves?'"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When you ate and drank, didn't you do it to benefit yourselves?

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And when you did eat, and when you did drink, did not you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

American King James Version
And when you did eat, and when you did drink, did not you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

American Standard Version
And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Darby Bible Translation
And when ye ate, and when ye drank, was it not you that were eating and drinking?

English Revised Version
And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Webster's Bible Translation
And when ye ate, and when ye drank, did ye not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

World English Bible
When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Young's Literal Translation
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?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:1-7 If we truly desire to know the will of God in doubtful matters, we must not only consult his word and ministers, but seek his direction by fervent prayer. Those who would know God's mind should consult God's ministers; and, in doubtful cases, ask advice of those whose special business it is to search the Scriptures. The Jews seemed to question whether they ought to continue their fasts, seeing that the city and temple were likely to be finished. The first answer to their inquiry is a sharp reproof of hypocrisy. These fasts were not acceptable to God, unless observed in a better manner, and to better purpose. There was the form of duty, but no life, or soul, or power in it. Holy exercises are to be done to God, looking to his word as our rule, and his glory as our end, seeking to please him and obtain his favour; but self was the centre of all their actions. And it was not enough to weep on fast days; they should have searched the Scriptures of the prophets, that they might have seen what was the ground of God's controversy with their fathers. Whether people are in prosperity or adversity, they must be called upon to leave their sins, and to do their duty.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 6. - When ye did eat, etc.; better, when ye eat and when ye drink. As in your fasts, so in your rejoicings and your daily life. Did not ye eat for yourselves, etc.? literally, Is it not ye who are eating and ye who are drinking? There the matter ends; it is self that is concerned, and there is no reference to God (comp. 1 Corinthians 8:8; 1 Corinthians 10:31).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink,.... Either at common meals, or at their festivals:

did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? merely and only for their own refreshment and pleasure, and not for the glory of God; though that ought to be the principal end in eating and drinking, 1 Corinthians 10:31.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

6. did not ye eat for yourselves?—literally, "Is it not ye who eat?" that is, it is not unto Me and My glory. It tends no more to My glory, your feasting than your fasting.

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A Call to Justice and Mercy
…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? 6And when you did eat, and when you did drink, did not you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? 7Should you not hear the words which the LORD has cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain? …

Isaiah 43:23 You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with grain offerings nor wearied you with demands for incense.
Isaiah 58:3 Why have we fasted,' they say, 'and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?' "Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers.
Zechariah 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?
Zechariah 7:7 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?'"