Zec 7:3, 5 | ESV | STEP | saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets , Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month , as I have done for so many years ?

a Mal. 2:7

b ch. 8:9; [Ezra 5:1; 6:14]

c[ch. 12:12]

d ch. 8:19; [2 Kgs. 25:8]

e[See ver. 3 above]

f[2 Kgs. 25:25]

gSee ch. 1:12

h[Isa. 58:4, 5]

i[Isa. 58:4, 5]

Zechariah 7:3

3 ^asaying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and ^bthe prophets, “Should I weep and ^cabstain in ^dthe fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

Zechariah 7:5

5 “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in ^ethe fifth month and in ^fthe seventh, for these ^gseventy years, ^hwas it ⁱfor me that you fasted?