Zechariah 7:2-6

New International Version

² The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melek, together with their men, to entreat^(A) the Lord^{(B) 3} by asking the priests of the house of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I mourn^(C) and fast in the fifth^(D) month, as I have done for so many years?”

⁴ Then the word of the Lord Almighty came to me: ⁵ “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted^(E) and mourned in the fifth and seventh^(F) months for the past seventy years,^(G) was it really for me that you fasted? ⁶ And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?^(H)