Zechariah 7:6
“And when ye did eat, and when ye did drinke, did not ye eat for your selues, and drinke for your selues?”
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Zechariah 7:6 Context
4¶ Then came the word of the Lord of hosts vnto me, saying, 5Speake vnto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fift and seuenth moneth, euen those seuenty yeeres; did ye at all fast vnto me, euen to me? 6And when ye did eat, and when ye did drinke, did not ye eat for your selues, and drinke for your selues? 7Should yee not heare the wordes, which the Lord hath cried by the former Prophets, when Ierusalem was inhabited, and in prosperitie, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the South of the plaine? 8¶ And the word of the Lord came vnto Zechariah, saying;
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Other Translations for Zechariah 7:6
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]?
- King James Version
'When you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
- American Standard Version (1901)
And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?
- Basic English Bible
And when ye ate, and when ye drank, was it not you that were eating and drinking?
- Darby Bible
And when ye ate, and when ye drank, did ye not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
- Webster's Bible
When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
- World English Bible
When ye fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh [months] -- even these seventy years -- did ye keep the fast [to] Me -- Me? And when ye eat, and when ye drink, is it not ye who are eating, and ye who are drinking?
- Youngs Literal Bible
And when ye eat, and when ye did drink, are ye not they that eat, and they that drink?
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Zechariah 7:6
7:6 For yourselves - I was as little minded by you in your fasts, as in your feasts.