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

Is this really the kind of fasting I want? Do I want a day when people merely humble themselves, bowing their heads like a reed and stretching out on sackcloth and ashes? Is this really what you call a fast, a day that is pleasing to the Lord?

Seventy

by asking both the priests of the temple of the Lord who rules over all and the prophets, "Should we weep in the fifth month, fasting as we have done over the years?"

The angel of the Lord then asked, "Lord who rules over all, how long before you have compassion on Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah which you have been so angry with for these seventy years?"

This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.'

Did

And now when you eat and drink, are you not doing so for yourselves?'"

"Of what importance to me are your many sacrifices?" says the Lord. "I am stuffed with burnt sacrifices of rams and the fat from steers. The blood of bulls, lambs, and goats I do not want.

Look, your fasting is accompanied by arguments, brawls, and fistfights. Do not fast as you do today, trying to make your voice heard in heaven.

In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

Thus whenever you do charitable giving, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth, they have their reward.

They do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries wide and their tassels long.

The one who observes the day does it for the Lord. The one who eats, eats for the Lord because he gives thanks to God, and the one who abstains from eating abstains for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.

Whatever you are doing, work at it with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not for people,

General references

You did not bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family of Israel.