Zec 7:5, 9, 8:3-5 | 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 7:9

9 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, ^fRender true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,

Zechariah 8:3-5

3 Thus says the Lord: ^gI have returned to Zion and ^hwill dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, ⁱand Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, ^jand the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain. 4 Thus says the Lord of hosts: ^kOld men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age. 5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.