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Zechariah 7:6 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves? "

Zechariah 7:6

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4 Then the word of the LORD of Armies came to me, saying,

5 “Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?

6 When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

7 Aren’t these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”

8 The LORD’s word came to Zechariah, saying,

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"He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks."

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"“You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.”"

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"Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness."

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Zechariah 7:1

"In the fourth year of King Darius, the LORD’s word came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev."

Zechariah 7:2

"The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech and their men to entreat the LORD’s favor,"

Zechariah 7:3

"and to speak to the priests of the house of the LORD of Armies and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”"

Zechariah 7:4

"Then the word of the LORD of Armies came to me, saying,"

Zechariah 7:5

"“Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?"

Zechariah 7:7

"Aren’t these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”"

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