Zechariah 7:6
Modern Translations
New International Version
And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?

New Living Translation
And even now in your holy festivals, aren’t you eating and drinking just to please yourselves?

English Standard Version
And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

Berean Study Bible
And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?

New American Standard Bible
And when you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

NASB 1995
'When you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?

NASB 1977
‘And when you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?

Amplified Bible
When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves [to satisfy your own needs]?

Christian Standard Bible
When you eat and drink, don’t you eat and drink simply for yourselves?

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

Contemporary English Version
And when you eat and drink, isn't it for your own enjoyment?

Good News Translation
And when they ate and drank, it was for their own satisfaction."

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

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

NET Bible
And now when you eat and drink, are you not doing so for yourselves?'"
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

New King James Version
When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves?

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

New Heart English Bible
When you eat, and when you drink, do you 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?

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?

A Faithful Version
And when you ate, and when you drank, 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?

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And when ye did eate, and when ye did drinke, did ye not eate for your selues, and drinke for your selues?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
When ye did eate also & drincke, did ye not eate & drincke for your owne selues?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
When ye ate also and dronke, dyd ye not eate and drinke for youre owne selues?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
When you fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh [months]—even these seventy years—did you keep the fast [to] Me? And when you eat, and when you drink, is it not you who are eating, and you who are drinking?

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?

Smith's Literal Translation
And when ye shall eat, and when ye shall drink, are ye not eating, and are ye not drinking?

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
And when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink only for yourselves?

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And if you eat and drink, is it not you eating and drinking?”

Lamsa Bible
And when you did eat and when you did drink, did you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And when ye eat, and when ye did drink, are ye not they that eat, and they that drink?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And if ye eat or drink, do ye not eat and drink for yourselves?
















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