Zec 7:5, 8:19 | ESV | STEP | Say to all the people of the land and the priests , ' When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh , for these seventy years , was it for me that you fasted ?

a[See ver. 3 above]

Zechariah 7:5

5 “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in ^athe fifth month and in ^bthe seventh, for these ^cseventy years, ^dwas it ^efor me that you fasted?

Zechariah 8:19

19 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the ^ffourth month and the fast of the ^gfifth and the fast of the ^hseventh and the fast of the ⁱtenth shall be to the house of Judah ^jseasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love ^ktruth and peace.