Zechariah 7:5-7 ▼

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?

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

7 Are these not the words that the LORD {YHWH} proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem (city of peace) and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev (southland) and the foothills {Shephelah} were inhabited?’”