Zechariah 7:6
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 Standard Bible
And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?

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?

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?

Legacy Standard Bible
And when you eat and when you drink, are you not eating for yourselves and are you not drinking 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?

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if you eat and drink, is it not you eating and drinking?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

New American Bible
When you were eating and drinking, was it not for yourselves that you ate and for yourselves that you drank?

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

New Revised Standard Version
And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink only for yourselves?

New Heart English Bible
When you eat, and when you drink, do you not 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?

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Context
A Call to Justice and Mercy
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?’ ”…

Cross References
Isaiah 43:23
You have not brought Me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.

Isaiah 58:3
"Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?" "Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress 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 these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?

Zechariah 7:7
Are 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?'"


Treasury of Scripture

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

did not ye eat for.

Deuteronomy 12:7
And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

Deuteronomy 14:26
And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,

1 Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

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Zechariah 7
1. The captives enquire concerning the set fasts.
4. Zechariah reproves the hypocrisy of their fasting.
8. Sin the cause of their captivity.














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).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And when
וְכִ֥י (wə·ḵî)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

you were eating
תֹאכְל֖וּ (ṯō·ḵə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

and drinking,
תִשְׁתּ֑וּ (ṯiš·tū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 8354: To imbibe

were you not
הֲל֤וֹא (hă·lō·w)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

[doing so]
אַתֶּם֙ (’at·tem)
Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

simply for yourselves?
הַשֹּׁתִֽים׃ (haš·šō·ṯîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 8354: To imbibe


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