Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
And when ye ate, and when ye drank, was it not you that were eating and drinking?
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]?
Bible in Basic English
And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?
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 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye really fast unto me, even unto me? 6 And when ye ate, and when ye drank, was it not you that were eating and drinking? 7 Are not these the words that Jehovah cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and at peace, and her cities round about her, when the south and the lowland were inhabited?
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:20-21
When ye come therefore together into one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper.
Deuteronomy 12:7
and ye shall eat there before Jehovah your God, and ye shall rejoice, ye and your households, in all the business of your hand, wherein Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee.
Deuteronomy 14:26
and thou shalt give the money for whatever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat there before Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thy house.
1 Samuel 16:7
But Jehovah said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him; for it is not as man seeth; for man looketh upon the outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh upon the heart.
1 Chronicles 29:22
And they ate and drank before Jehovah on that day with great joy. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him to Jehovah to be prince, and Zadok to be priest.
Jeremiah 17:9-10
The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it?
Hosea 8:13
They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; Jehovah hath no delight in them. Now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
Hosea 9:4
They shall pour out no offerings of wine to Jehovah, neither shall their sacrifices be pleasing unto him: they shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be defiled: for their bread shall be for themselves; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah.
1 Corinthians 10:31
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all things to God's glory.
1 Corinthians 11:26-29
For as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye announce the death of the Lord, until he come.
Colossians 3:17
And everything, whatever ye may do in word or in deed, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father by him.