Zechariah 7:5
Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
Context
This verse from Zechariah Chapter 7 connects to 10 cross-references. A delegation asks whether to continue the fasts commemorating Jerusalem's fall. God replies with a question: were those fasts really for him? He calls for genuine justice, kindness, and mercy — not oppressing widows, orphans, strangers, and the poor. The …
Other Translations
Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
`Speak unto all the people of the land, and unto the priests, saying:
Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?
Cross References
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, …
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as …
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt …
And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of …
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon …
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the …
Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they …
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the …