Zechariah 7:6 “And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply fo…”

Zechariah 7:6

And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

And when ye did eate, and when ye did drinke, did ye not eate for your selues, and drinke for your selues?

Darby Translation

And when ye ate, and when ye drank, was it not you that were eating and drinking?

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?

Bible in Basic English

And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?

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Cross references

“did not ye eat for”

1 Corinthians 11:26–29 Hosea 8:13 Colossians 3:17 Deuteronomy 12:7 Deuteronomy 14:26 1 Samuel 16:7

1 Corinthians 11:26–29 · BSB

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.

Hosea 8:13 · BSB

Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

Colossians 3:17 · BSB

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

Deuteronomy 12:7 · BSB

There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 14:26 · BSB

Then you may spend the money on anything you desire: cattle, sheep, wine, strong drink, or anything you wish. You are to feast there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your household.

1 Samuel 16:7 · BSB

But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?

7Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”

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