Zechariah 7:6 BBE

⁴  Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying

⁵  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?

⁶  And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?

⁷  Are not these the words which the Lord said to you by the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was full of people and wealth, and the towns round about her and the South and the Lowland were peopled?

⁸  And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,