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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?

Speak {H559} unto all the people {H5971} of the land {H776}, and to the priests {H3548}, saying {H559}, When ye fasted {H6684} and mourned {H5594} in the fifth {H2549} and seventh {H7637} month, even those seventy {H7657} years {H8141}, did ye at all {H6684} fast {H6684} unto me, even to me?

"Speak to all the people of the land and to the cohanim. Tell them, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months throughout these seventy years, were you really fasting for me? Was it for me?

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

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

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Cross-References

  • Isaiah 58:4 (4 votes)

    Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

  • Isaiah 58:6 (4 votes)

    [Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

  • Zechariah 1:12 (4 votes)

    Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

  • 1 Corinthians 10:31 (3 votes)

    Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

  • Zechariah 7:6 (3 votes)

    And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]?

  • Romans 14:6 (3 votes)

    He that regardeth the day, regardeth [it] unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard [it]. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

  • Romans 14:9 (3 votes)

    For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.