4. And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:
5. Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: Although you may have fasted and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for these seventy years, did you indeed keep a fast unto me?
6. And when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink only for yourselves?
7. Are not these the words that the Lord has spoken by the hand of the former prophets, when Jerusalem was still inhabited, so that it would prosper, itself and the cities around it, and those inhabitants towards the South and in the plains?
8. And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying: