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Zechariah 7:5

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7:5“Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows: ‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh5 months through all these seventy years, did you truly fast for me—for me, indeed?

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Footnotes

  1. 5 The seventh month apparently refers to the anniversary of the assassination of Gedaliah, governor of Judah (Jer 40:13–14; 41:1), in approximately 581 b.c.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?

NLTNew Living Translation

“Say to all your people and your priests, ‘During these seventy years of exile, when you fasted and mourned in the summer and in early autumn, was it really for me that you were fasting?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“Say to all the people of the land and to the priests: ‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?

KJV 1900King James Version

Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?