Zechariah 7:6
World English Bible (WEB)
When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
In context
4 Then the word of the LORD of Armies came to me, saying,
5 “Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
6 When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
7 Aren’t these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”
8 The LORD’s word came to Zechariah, saying,
Zechariah 7:6 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink 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?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply 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 ?