Verse 6
Zechariah 7:6
Bible in Basic English
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And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/כִ֥י תֹאכְל֖וּ וְ/כִ֣י תִשְׁתּ֑וּ הֲ/ל֤וֹא אַתֶּם֙ הָ/אֹ֣כְלִ֔ים וְ/אַתֶּ֖ם הַ/שֹּׁתִֽים
English Translation
And when you eat and when you drink, are you not the ones who eat and you are the ones who drink?
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Chapter 7 Context
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And it came about in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on...
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Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to make a request for grace from the Lord,
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And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weep...
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Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying
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Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves...
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And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?
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Are not these the words which the Lord said to you by the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was full...
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And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,
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9
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let ev...
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10
Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on...
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11
But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;
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And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and th...
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And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voi...
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But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So...
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