Zech.7.6

Zechariah 7:6

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

A Call to Justice and Mercy

Cross References

Isaiah 43:23

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Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.

Israel’s Unfaithfulness

Isaiah 58:3

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¶ Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

True Fasts and Sabbaths

Observances of Fasts

Zechariah 7:5

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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?

A Call to Justice and Mercy

Zechariah 7:7

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Should ye not hear the words which the Lord hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?