Parallel Verses
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?
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?
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?
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 unto the priests, saying: 6 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? 7 Are not these the words that Jehovah proclaimed by the hand of the former prophets, in Jerusalem's being inhabited, and in safety, and its cities round about it, and the south and the plain -- abiding?'
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:20-21
ye, then, coming together at the same place -- it is not to eat the Lord's supper;
Deuteronomy 12:7
and ye have eaten there before Jehovah your God, and have rejoiced in every putting forth of your hand, ye and your households, with which Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee.
Deuteronomy 14:26
and thou hast given the money for any thing which thy soul desireth, for oxen, and for sheep, and for wine, and for strong drink, and for any thing which thy soul asketh, and thou hast eaten there before Jehovah thy God, and thou hast rejoiced, thou and thy house.
1 Samuel 16:7
And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, 'Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for it is not as man seeth -- for man looketh at the eyes, and Jehovah looketh at the heart.'
1 Chronicles 29:22
And they eat and drink before Jehovah on that day with great joy, and cause Solomon son of David to reign a second time, and anoint him before Jehovah for leader, and Zadok for priest.
Jeremiah 17:9-10
Crooked is the heart above all things, And it is incurable -- who doth know it?
Hosea 8:13
The sacrifices of Mine offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin, They -- to Egypt they turn back.
Hosea 9:4
They pour not out wine to Jehovah, Nor are they sweet to Him, Their sacrifices are as bread of mourners to them, All eating it are unclean: For their bread is for themselves, It doth not come into the house of Jehovah.
1 Corinthians 10:31
Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;
1 Corinthians 11:26-29
for as often as ye may eat this bread, and this cup may drink, the death of the Lord ye do shew forth -- till he may come;
Colossians 3:17
and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus -- giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.