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Zechariah 7:6
And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?
Zechariah 7:6 · Bible in Basic English
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Zechariah 7:6 in other translations
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
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In context
3 And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?
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,
9 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:
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