Zechariah 7:3-5

Common English Bible

³ saying to the priests who were in the house of the Lord of heavenly forces and to the prophets: “Should I weep in the fifth month and abstain as I have done for a number of years?”

⁴ Then the word of the Lord of heavenly forces came to me: ⁵ Say to all the land’s people and to the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth month and the seventh month for these past seventy years, did you fast for me?