5. Say to all the people in the land and to the priests: When you fasted and lamented during the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for Me?
6. And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves?
7. Were these not the very words that the former prophets proclaimed when Jerusalem dwelled with ease along with her surrounding cities, and when the Negev and the Lowland were inhabited?
8. And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying:
9. Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Execute true justice, show mercy and compassion, every man to his brother.