Zechariah 7:2-6
Zechariah 7:2
Now the town of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to seek the favor of the Lord,
Zechariah 7:3
speaking to the priests who belong to the house of the Lord of armies, and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the fifth month and fast, as I have done these many years?”
Zechariah 7:4
Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying,
Zechariah 7:5
“Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months these seventy years, was it actually for Me that you fasted?
Zechariah 7:6
And when you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?