Zechariah 7:6
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
In context
4 Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,
5 “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?
6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
7 Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”
8 Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,
Zechariah 7:6 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
- KJV King James Version
- And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
- WEB World English Bible
- When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
- ASV American Standard Version
- And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- When ye fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh [months] — even these seventy years — did ye keep the fast [to] Me — Me? And when ye eat, and when ye drink, is it not ye who are eating, and ye who are drinking?
- DBY Darby Translation
- And when ye ate, and when ye drank, was it not you that were eating and drinking?
- WBS Webster Bible
- And when ye ate, and when ye drank, did ye not eat for yourselves , and drink for yourselves ?