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 these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
6. And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
7. Should ye not hear the words which the Lord hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?
8. And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying,
9. Thus hath the Lord of hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassion every man to his brother: