Zechariah 7:6-8

New Living Translation

⁶ And even now in your holy festivals, aren’t you eating and drinking just to please yourselves? ⁷ Isn’t this the same message the Lord proclaimed through the prophets in years past when Jerusalem and the towns of Judah were bustling with people, and the Negev and the foothills of Judah^[a] were well populated?’”

⁸ Then this message came to Zechariah from the Lord: