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1 In the fourth year of Darius the king, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, on the fourth day of the ninth month, Kislev. 2 Bethelsarezer sent Regem-melech and his men to implore the favor of the LORD 3 and to ask the priests of the house of the LORD of hosts, and the prophets, “Must I weep and abstain in the fifth month as I have been doing these many years?” 4 Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me: 5 Say to all the people of the land and to the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh month these seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted? 6 When you were eating and drinking, was it not for yourselves that you ate and for yourselves that you drank? Zechariah 7:1-6, New American Bible Revised. Copyright © 2010 USCCB.
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