5. “Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months all these seventy years, did you truly fast for Me – for Me?
6. ‘And when you ate and when you drank, was it not for those eating and for those drinking?
7. ‘Are these not the words which יהוה proclaimed through the former prophets when Yerushalayim and the cities around it were inhabited and in safety, and the South and the low country were inhabited?’ ”
8. And the word of יהוה came to Zeḵaryah, saying,
9. “Thus said יהוה of hosts, ‘Execute true right-ruling, show kindness and compassion everyone to his brother.
10. “Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the stranger or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
11. “But they refused to listen, and they shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears from hearing.