Zechariah 7:5

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Summary

Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

When

Isaiah 58:5

Seventy

Zechariah 7:3

Zechariah 1:12

Jeremiah 25:11

Did

General references

Amos 5:25

Bible References

When

Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?

Seventy

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?

Then the angel of the Lord, answering, said, O Lord of armies, how long will it be before you have mercy on Jerusalem and on the towns of Judah against which your wrath has been burning for seventy years?

All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years.

Did

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

What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.

Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

When then you give money to the poor, do not make a noise about it, as the false-hearted men do in the Synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, They have their reward.

But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,

He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.

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.

And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men;

General references

Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?