Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?
New American Standard Bible
When you eat and drink,
King James Version
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Holman Bible
When you eat and drink, don’t you eat and drink simply for yourselves?
International Standard Version
And when you eat and drink, you're eating and drinking for your own benefit, aren't you?
A Conservative Version
And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do ye not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
American Standard Version
And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Amplified
When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves [to satisfy your own needs]?
Darby Translation
And when ye ate, and when ye drank, was it not you that were eating and drinking?
Julia Smith Translation
And when ye shall eat, and when ye shall drink, are ye not eating, and are ye not drinking?
King James 2000
And when you did eat, and when you did drink, did not you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Lexham Expanded Bible
And when you eat and drink, are you not eating and drinking [for yourselves]?
Modern King James verseion
And when you ate, and when you drank, was it not for you the eaters, and for you, the drinkers?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When ye ate also and drank, did ye not eat and drink for your own selves?
NET Bible
And now when you eat and drink, are you not doing so for yourselves?'"
New Heart English Bible
When you eat, and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
The Emphasized Bible
And, when ye used to eat and when ye used to drink, was it not, of your own accord, ye did eat, and, of your own accord, ye did drink?
Webster
And when ye ate, and when ye drank, did ye not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
World English Bible
When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Youngs Literal Translation
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?
Themes
Christian ministers » Instances of » Priests and levites
Selfishness » Different forms of » Total disregard of the rights of others
Selfishness » Exemplified » Jews
Social selfishness » Different forms of » Total disregard of the rights of others
Topics
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Zechariah 7:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Disobedience And Fasting
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?
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:20-21
But now, when you come together, it is not possible to take the holy meal of the Lord:
Deuteronomy 12:7
There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.
Deuteronomy 14:26
And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;
1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.
1 Chronicles 29:22
And with great joy they made a feast before the Lord that day. And they made Solomon, the son of David, king a second time, putting the holy oil on him to make him holy to the Lord as ruler, and on Zadok as priest.
Jeremiah 17:9-10
The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?
Hosea 8:13
He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.
Hosea 9:4
They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 10:31
So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 11:26-29
For whenever you take the bread and the cup you give witness to the Lord's death till he comes.
Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.