Zechariah 7:5

New English Translation

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

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Footnotes

Zechariah 7:5 tn 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.

Zechariah 7:5

King James Version

⁵Speak 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?

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Zechariah 7:5

New International Version

⁵“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted^(A) and mourned in the fifth and seventh^(B) months for the past seventy years,^(C) was it really for me that you fasted?

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Zechariah 7:5

New King James Version

⁵“Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests: ‘When you ^(A)fasted and mourned in the fifth ^(B)and seventh months ^(C)during those seventy years, did you really fast ^(D)for Me—for Me?

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Zechariah 7:5

English Standard Version

⁵“Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in ^(A)the fifth month and in ^(B)the seventh, for these ^(C)seventy years, ^(D)was it ^(E)for me that you fasted?